A Twitter Bot to inspire you to make personal games (CC0)
Saturday, April 30, 2016 - 09:59
Hello everybody!
After going to the AMaze festival in Berlin for indie developers, I was inspired to create a little (opensource) Twitter bot.
Every 3 hours it tweets ideas for little games and other ideas to inspire your game creation process.
I created the bot using cheapbotsdonequick.com, which really is an awesome, easy-to-use tool if you want to make your own Twitter bots. You can view the source code of my bot here (CC0/Public Domain License): http://cheapbotsdonequick.com/source/bot_dreams
Alright! That's it, I hope some of you will find my little Twitter bot helpful :)
You can give it a try here: https://twitter.com/bot_dreams
is the tweet random generated or predefined?
I answered exactly that question somewhere else, so I'll quote my answer here :D
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Thx! It's actually a mix of the two options you mentioned. The "statement" tweets (e.g. "Games don't have to be about saving the world") are very much authored, since I don't want my bot to say shitty or harmful stuff with that. The "game idea" tweets (e.g. "make a game about watching plants grow") are generated. This works with simple lists too (not markov chains or anything). Basically I have a basic sentence structure, with several replaceable words or group of words.
In the future I'd like to create modules where the sentences are even more "fractured"/separated into tiny pieces, to create a greater variety of outputs.
P.S.: You can view the source "code" here: http://cheapbotsdonequick.com/source/bot_dreams
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cool. we can use this as brainstorming tool