I am part of an event called "nethackathon" where multiple streamers hand over the same character/savegame to the next person in the schedule, like a relay race. What other games do you think would be good for a similar kind of event?
Nethack is ideal for a few different reasons:
- it has a clearly defined objective (win the game)
- permadeath means there are real stakes, we care if each character lives or dies
- a winning run usually takes about 10-20 hours, short enough to be done in the weekend of the event, but also long enough that it can't be completed by a single person and requires multiple streamers in 2 hour "shifts"
- transferable savegames (we play on a common server)
- the game itself is interesting and deep
What other games do you think would work well in this format and why?
There is no list. Nethackathon is for nethack. I'm asking for other suggestions which might work for their own, completely independent events.
Personally I can't imagine a story based game being fun for this kind of event.