Quick Discord Side Project (Patreon)

A couple of weeks ago I was hanging out on the A Very Full House Discord (come join us, it's fun over here!) and wished I had some way to reward people who were posting cool things or making cool mods. Yesterday I decided to make that wish a reality by writing up a Discord bot to track made up internet points for fun and profit. Today I finished up the basic functionality and MetalMira is now live over on Discord!

So what does this bot do? Simple: every time another Discord user reacts to one of your posts (by, say, giving it a "heart" or a "thumbs up" emoji) you earn 1 "Good Boy Point". My reactions are special, and worth a whole 10 GBP! You can ask the bot how many GBP you have saved up, and... well, that's about it. It's basically glorified Reddit karma, but with a much more niche audience.

The real reason I spent time on this little side project (other than being funny) was to stretch my programing muscles and make sure I'm keeping up to date with non Ren'py related things. This project involved some simple asynchronous function calls and some light database work, both of which rarely come up during AVFH development. It was nice to have a chance to brush up on those!

If you pop over to Discord you can use the command "!gbp_rules" to find out how to earn Good Boy Points, and "!check_gbp" to check how many GBP you have saved up. At some point in the future I'll add something silly for you to spend all of those points on.

Of course my bot needed a profile picture, so here's a quick-and-dirty edit of robot Mira:

Now to get back to the actual work that needs to be done - more event writing, and maybe a little more art!