Gamesoc Butler

A bot written for the University of Edinburgh's Gaming society's Discord (link), mostly grows organically with what we need

Features

The bot uses modules which can be turned on and off at will and developed / configured independently. Some notable modules:

Janitor

Pokecord is fun, but is spammy and results in conversations constantly broken with images which take a lot of vertical space. The janitor module deletes any Pokecord messages and the players' dialogue, apart from the final confirmation message, when a mon is caught.

Game roles

Finding other people which play a specific game can be a pain on a larger server. the game-role module enables 'matchmaking' with the bot adding roles for specific games, assigning players, listing /pinging active players for a game etc. use -help for more.

Moo

Module made when the soc wanted to merge Janitor and Moobot into a single Gamesoc bot, implements moobot features (other than fox's NLP stuff :p). fortune, harambe,f etc. Meme stuff.

Architecture

The bot is written in Kotlin, using Discord4J and coroutines for multithreaded stuff.

Adding modules

I'll write this up later.

The TL;DR is:

• create a new class that extends Module

• in the constructor, pass a name that'll be used in the config to enable the module

• implement the process(event) method to process arbitrary events

• the config / db APIs are an unholy mess, but for now, mimic what game-role uses.

TODOs

• game-role

  • make process clearer
  • reaction assigns?

• moo

  • cowsay for fortunes (reqs linux)

• janitor

  • ash ketchum mode (catch everything that spawns; taunt opposition)

• tournament module

  • use challonge or sth similar for local tourneys .D