This a plugin for Slack's demonstration bot that plays a really basic RPG with anyone in the channel.

To run it, you need python-rtmbot: https://github.com/slackhq/python-rtmbot Install and configure it as described in their docs. You'll need a Slack account and the ability to create a bot user to get very far.

Then install rpgbot.py from this repo in plugins/ or plugins/rpgbot/

It loads a config file called gameconfig.json in the rtmbot's working directory that should have the following stuff:

• RPGCHANNEL: the ugly Slack channel ID for the channel to use for the game (e.g. C123456789)
• DEBUG: true or false as you see fit
• SLACK_KEY: a Slack API key, preferably the same one you use for the rtmbot config
• IGNORELIST: [] of the user IDs (e.g. U123456789) you want to ignore. Sticking the bot's user ID in there is probably a good idea.

You can run this on a commandline using cli.py. You should have a venv set up with requests installed (pip install -r pip-requirements.txt). The brute-force input handling (stolen blatantly from a google result for "python non blocking input") will only work on unix-ish platforms (including osx) and won't work from the console of an IDE.

Note also that you can't do the private-message commands this way, just the public ones -- they all begin with an exclamation point.

Note 2: You REALLY REALLY want to turn off DEBUG in game.py before running the CLI.