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Tweet at this bot to make games using emojis for scripting

36 points by elisee 12y ago

elisee 12y ago
I tried submitting this bot I made yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7924323 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7924323) but didn't realize it was the middle of the night in the US. Trying again in the hopes that it will catch some more attention.
- underwater 12y ago
  Interesting. But it's a bit hard to tell what the bot does just from this page. Could the sample games show the Tweets that were sent to create them?
  - elisee 12y ago
    Thanks! Yes, I implemented the logging system after those two games were made so they don't have a public log right now but I'm gonna try and build a little game to demonstrate the whole thing. Feel free to follow https://twitter.com/gdevbot https://twitter.com/gdevbot for updates. EDIT: I'm building a little game now, you can see it get build over here - http://gdevbot.sparklinlabs.com/p/starpick/edit http://gdevbot.sparklinlabs.com/p/starpick/edit
    - elisee 12y ago
      And precisely 60 tweets later... here's a game! Hold mouse down to move, catch the stars, avoid the spikes. http://gdevbot.sparklinlabs.com/p/starpick/edit http://gdevbot.sparklinlabs.com/p/starpick/edit
      - voltagex_ 12y ago
        Whoa. Reminds me a bit of Logo.
teamonkey 12y ago
Fantastic stuff. Can you give some more info on how it was created, what libraries it uses etc.?
- elisee 12y ago
  Sure! (I made the source code public at https://bitbucket.org/sparklinlabs/gdevbot/src https://bitbucket.org/sparklinlabs/gdevbot/src btw) So basically it's a Node.js app built in CoffeeScript. I'm using node-twitter-api to subscribe to the bot's twitter notifications (https://bitbucket.org/sparklinlabs/gdevbot/src/tip/app.coffee?at=default#cl-276 https://bitbucket.org/sparklinlabs/gdevbot/src/tip/app.coffe...). Whenever a tweet arrives, I check various stuff (is it a retweet? are multiple people mentioned? more than one hashtag?) to decide whether it's a command or it should just be ignored. If all checks out, I parse the tweet's text (https://bitbucket.org/sparklinlabs/gdevbot/src/tip/app.coffee?at=default#cl-16 https://bitbucket.org/sparklinlabs/gdevbot/src/tip/app.coffe...) into a command and relay it to the backend for processing (https://bitbucket.org/sparklinlabs/gdevbot/src/tip/lib/backend.coffee#cl-142 https://bitbucket.org/sparklinlabs/gdevbot/src/tip/lib/backe...). Images are validated & their size clamped using a node graphics-magick module. Emoji scripts are parsed using a custom parser I cobbled together (https://bitbucket.org/sparklinlabs/gdevbot/src/tip/public/js/parseScript.coffee https://bitbucket.org/sparklinlabs/gdevbot/src/tip/public/js...) and JavaScript comes out on the other end. The tiny game engine works with actors (or game objects in Unity3D parlance, it's very similar except 2D-only), they can have components (an image, one or more scripts) on them and can be parented to one another. I've been building a cooperative game-making platform called CraftStudio (http://craftstud.io/ http://craftstud.io/) for the past 2-3 years and @gdevbot was just a kind of crazy "why the hell not" project inspired by all that work that I decided to build a couple weeks ago.
hayksaakian 12y ago
There should be a game jam with this system as the theme

36 points by elisee 12y ago

I tried submitting this bot I made yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7924323 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7924323) but didn't realize it was the middle of the night in the US. Trying again in the hopes that it will catch some more attention.

underwater 12y ago
Interesting. But it's a bit hard to tell what the bot does just from this page. Could the sample games show the Tweets that were sent to create them?
- elisee 12y ago
  Thanks! Yes, I implemented the logging system after those two games were made so they don't have a public log right now but I'm gonna try and build a little game to demonstrate the whole thing. Feel free to follow https://twitter.com/gdevbot https://twitter.com/gdevbot for updates. EDIT: I'm building a little game now, you can see it get build over here - http://gdevbot.sparklinlabs.com/p/starpick/edit http://gdevbot.sparklinlabs.com/p/starpick/edit
  - elisee 12y ago
    And precisely 60 tweets later... here's a game! Hold mouse down to move, catch the stars, avoid the spikes. http://gdevbot.sparklinlabs.com/p/starpick/edit http://gdevbot.sparklinlabs.com/p/starpick/edit
    - voltagex_ 12y ago
      Whoa. Reminds me a bit of Logo.

teamonkey 12y ago

Fantastic stuff. Can you give some more info on how it was created, what libraries it uses etc.?

elisee 12y ago
Sure! (I made the source code public at https://bitbucket.org/sparklinlabs/gdevbot/src https://bitbucket.org/sparklinlabs/gdevbot/src btw) So basically it's a Node.js app built in CoffeeScript. I'm using node-twitter-api to subscribe to the bot's twitter notifications (https://bitbucket.org/sparklinlabs/gdevbot/src/tip/app.coffee?at=default#cl-276 https://bitbucket.org/sparklinlabs/gdevbot/src/tip/app.coffe...). Whenever a tweet arrives, I check various stuff (is it a retweet? are multiple people mentioned? more than one hashtag?) to decide whether it's a command or it should just be ignored. If all checks out, I parse the tweet's text (https://bitbucket.org/sparklinlabs/gdevbot/src/tip/app.coffee?at=default#cl-16 https://bitbucket.org/sparklinlabs/gdevbot/src/tip/app.coffe...) into a command and relay it to the backend for processing (https://bitbucket.org/sparklinlabs/gdevbot/src/tip/lib/backend.coffee#cl-142 https://bitbucket.org/sparklinlabs/gdevbot/src/tip/lib/backe...). Images are validated & their size clamped using a node graphics-magick module. Emoji scripts are parsed using a custom parser I cobbled together (https://bitbucket.org/sparklinlabs/gdevbot/src/tip/public/js/parseScript.coffee https://bitbucket.org/sparklinlabs/gdevbot/src/tip/public/js...) and JavaScript comes out on the other end. The tiny game engine works with actors (or game objects in Unity3D parlance, it's very similar except 2D-only), they can have components (an image, one or more scripts) on them and can be parented to one another. I've been building a cooperative game-making platform called CraftStudio (http://craftstud.io/ http://craftstud.io/) for the past 2-3 years and @gdevbot was just a kind of crazy "why the hell not" project inspired by all that work that I decided to build a couple weeks ago.

hayksaakian 12y ago

There should be a game jam with this system as the theme