Aurora 4x
C# Aurora => C# Utilities => Topic started by: Zap0 on November 08, 2024, 10:21:56 PM
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I've coded a discord bot that reads the game event log from the database and posts it into discord channels. It is set up to handle multiple player races, posting the events for each race in separate channels. This is meant to aid GM-controlled multiplayer games played over discord.
This is meant to aid GM-controlled multiplayer games played over discord. Technologically it's a node.js application you run alongside the Aurora 4X game. Every time the game is saved, the database is read out and new events are posted.
We've been using it for over a year in the Fallen Empires (http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=13430) games and it's made the GMs life easier. Anyone else can of course use it as well of course. One can conceivably also use it to give live updates to readers in an AAR/fiction game. Hit me up here or elsewhere if you have questions or need help in setting it up.
Multiplayer Aurora?!?
- In this style of game the GM is the only one with access to the database and actually "playing" the game itself. They accept orders from player factions over discord as for what their faction should do ingame, and executes them accordingly. The GM reflects the current state of the game back to the player factions via screenshots or other means. This bot is meant to make that easier and give the players more information about ingame happenings.
Link and screenshots:
- Code, readme & install instructions on Bitbucket (https://bitbucket.org/zap0/a4x_db_reader)
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This thing rules, for anyone tempted to run a multiplayer game, make AARs easier, or even if you want to have an easier to parse event log for personal use.