GOTM

Every month the PatientGamers Discord picks games to play together — one short (< 12h on HowLongToBeat) and one long (> 12h). This runs the election.

Live at pg-gotm.com.

How a month works

A month moves through five states:

nominating → jury → voting → playing → over

• Nominating — the jury sets a theme; anyone nominates a fitting game with an optional pitch
• Jury — the jury curates nominations down to a ballot (size isn't fixed)
• Voting — members rank the ballot; the winner is decided by Instant Runoff Voting
• Playing — winners are crowned and the community plays
• Over — next month begins, and it all repeats

Votes are tallied with ranked choice and rendered as an animated Sankey diagram showing how support flows between rounds. Game metadata comes from IGDB; each voter is shown a stable, PII-free pseudonym seeded off their Discord ID — same person, same "Brave Mario", every time. There's also a Patience view tracking games that just turned a year old — proper patient-gamer territory.

Stack

React 19 + React Router 8 (SSR) on Bun · Vite 8 · Tailwind CSS v4 · Base UI · ECharts (the Sankey) · libSQL/Turso. Discord OAuth for login; IGDB/Twitch for game data.

Develop

bun install
bun run dev          # uses a local file database

Build & run

bun run build
bun run start
bun run typecheck && bun run lint

Docker: docker compose up (port 3000). CI publishes ghcr.io/obviyus/gotm-remix on push to master.

Configuration

All required at runtime: COOKIE_SECRET, TURSO_DATABASE_URL, TURSO_AUTH_TOKEN, DISCORD_CLIENT_ID, DISCORD_CLIENT_SECRET, DISCORD_REDIRECT_URI, GOTM_JURY_WEBHOOK_URL, TWITCH_CLIENT_ID, TWITCH_CLIENT_SECRET.