Gamebot

A slackbot for board games and games channels. Responds to gameplay related chatter.

Features

• Basic understanding of users and channels

• Private and non-private messaging

• Modular structure for adding new responses

• Accusation module for making baseless accusations

• Howl module for occasional howling

• Resistance module for playing group games of Resistance

• Codenames module for playing group games of Codenames

• Loveletter module for playing group games of Loveletter

Development

• Checkout the code
• Install dependencies
  • npm i
• Test it
  • npm test
• Create a slack bot to gain an access token
• Each bot is configured in tokens.json, to keep your tokens private, set environment variables:

  export RESISTANCEBOT_TOKEN='abcd-1234-...'
  export SPYMASTERBOT_TOKEN='abcd-1234-...'
  export PRINCESSBOT_TOKEN='abcd-1234-...'
  export WOLFBOT_TOKEN='abcd-1234-...'
  

• Run it
  • npm start

For best results, you should also import custom emojis, please follow this guide: emojis/README.md

Hosting

Gamebot is currently hosted on a private Raspberry Pi.

Releasing

A jenkins job has been created to build the gamebot files into a zip, transfer them to the remote server, and then install as a systemctl service. For a fresh install, in order to pick up the secret tokens, you will need to manually create gamebot.env using gamebot.env.example as a template.

Changes to master will automatically be deployed to the development machine.

When ready to release to live, provide either a tag name or branch identifier to release from, and target the production machine.