Story time: A couple of friends and me played on a competitive Minecraft server for a while. You could form factions, build protected bases and compete on vario

Story time: A couple of friends and me played on a competitive Minecraft server for a while. You could form factions, build protected bases and compete on various player vs player events. The last part didn't interest us at all, since we were all a bit older and went there to relax after work. So we did all kinds of other creative things like automated shops using redstone. The server also had an in-game currency which you could only obtain by mining. One day we got the idea to do a penny auction to finance the expansion of our protected area. So I quickly put together a Flask based site that parsed the Minecraft client chat log in realtime. Other players would send me in-game money which would result in a chat message my locally running python script would pick up. Everyone could then see the auction happening in realtime on the website (Example screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/yg2V3iS.png http://i.imgur.com/yg2V3iS.png). It was really successful, everyone had fun and hopefully learned that you should never bid on penny actions :-)