Yaib Countdown Plugin

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A countdown plugin for yaib to support any scheduled, limited time event. Originally created to manage the time left between various stages of the Ludum Dare game development competition. See below.

To use, add an event key to your configuration with a list event_stages that contains objects with properties name and delay. The delay should be the number of seconds after the start of the event. You can also set the event_name and event_start fields in config, or set them from the admin set_event_name and set_event_start commands. All times are in unix timestamp format (seconds from the epoch).

Originally, this plugin was used to count down to the start of the LudumDare game development competition, then count down until the end of the various stages (compo start, compo end, jam end, judging end, next compo). The configuration for this setup looks like this:

"event": {
    "event_stages": [
        {"name": "{event_name} competition starts", "delay": 0},
        {"name": "{event_name} competition ends", "delay": 172800},
        {"name": "{event_name} jam ends", "delay": 259200},
        {"name": "{event_name} judging ends", "delay": 1468800}
    ]
}