yanamal/ircpybots

IRC robots written in python

ircpybots

IRC robots written in python

samplebot is a demo robot you can modify. It connects to a channel and responds to two type of messages: if you mention its name, it will say hi to you. If you start a message with “hay”, it will ask how you are, and then respond to your answer.

Storybot tells you an interactive branching story. If you don’t like it, you can say “No! D:” and change the story’s flow. Storybot’s story management logic lives in a separate file, so you can use it to make your own non-irc based interactive stories! say "storytime!" to start the story.

To run either robot, you should be able to just run the samplebot.py or storybot.py file using Python. The robot will connect and join the channel that's specified in the file. It will continue printing debugging information to the console.

ircpybots's Issues

Add the ability to edit the description of a room

What should the prompt for that be? Comment if you have opinions.

Make a command for stopping and/or restarting the story

There's already a stop function in the story file. We can make up a command for the bot that would call that function and stop the story, in case we want to restart it

Case insensitivity

Make commands (paths) case-insensitive when comparing them. (standardize to lower?)

Save play data

Save data on what players have tried to do, make it easy for people to add options that are frequently used but not there yet.

paths should have descriptions too!

We should change the data structure so that when you take a path, there is also a short blurb of text that describes what happens.

For example, if you do something that kills you, the path description should be why you died.

Or, if you are climbing a tree, the path description could be something like "you climb up the tree. it takes a looong time."

Fix game over/restart logic

It's all messed up. I should really fix it.
Hack for now: make "start over" action from DEATH or WIN when you're playing.

When you hit an end state (DEATH or WIN) and change it, the game should stop being over.

When you hit any state, including DEATH or WIN, you can say "No! D:" in order to change the path you just took.
Then the game places you in the new place.
However, when you hit the DEATH or WIN state, the game ends. And it does not go back to a not-over state when you change the path. So then you have to start over (and it's not even obvious).

The game should roll back to being not over when you change the path after dying/winning.

Implement saving to file and loading from file

So that we can save and load stories in between bot restarts

Synonyms support

For example, n = North = north etc.

If the user tells you that n should point to the same point as North, ask them if n and North are synonyms; if so, they should be used interchangeably in all the places.