mlnrdev/flagguessr

Guess the country by its flag on Discord.

FlagGuessr

FlagGuessr is a minigame Discord bot about guessing countries based on their flag and hints related to the country.

Features

• Pool of 250 countries and territories
• Hints, if you don't recognize the flag
• Options that enhance your experience
• Country streaks

Hints

1. Driving side
2. Population
3. Capitals
4. Top Level Domains

Options

1. Difficulty (Normal & Hard) - on Hard difficulty, guessing a country incorrectly will result in immediately losing the streak
2. Minimum population - predefined set of populations to filter countries
3. Hide - whether the game embeds should only be visible to the user

Ideas for expansion

1. Leaderboard system

Ready to play?

Invite Flag Guessr using this link.

Have a question, suggestion or a concern?

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Technical details

Flag Guessr is completely stateless - information about games is stored in buttons/modals as JSON. This means that there is no database and users don't lose their progress after bot restarts (unless they delete the embeds).

Button data

{
   "u":"244563286257827840",
   "d":0,
   "m":10000000,
   "i":22,
   "e":false,
   "s":1,
   "a":0,
   "h":0
}

Modal data

{
   "d":0,
   "m":10000000,
   "i":22,
   "e":false,
   "s":1
}

Breakdown

u: user ID, used for checking who can interact with the game embed

d: difficulty (0 = Normal, 1 = Hard)

m: minimum population

i: index of the country in the slice, used for getting details

e: whether the game embeds should be ephemeral

s: current streak

a: action the button should execute

h: current hint