A battle-royale game played over Twitch chat. This was a fun, one-off game played on April Fool's Day, 2022 (watch the hour-long video here).
ChatRoyale consists of three GitHub repos:
- The chat client: this is a fork of YaTA ("Yet another Twitch App") that knows to connect to the game server and is aware of the general game rules.
- The game server: this controls the game flow, picks prompts for each round, determines winners/losers, and handles the communication to the clients.
- The moderation client: this is the moderator view into the game. It has approve/reject buttons for each message.
I am taking a lazy approach to open-sourcing by just putting the code out there. I spent so many hours preparing for April Fool's Day that I don't want to write a full setup guide. 😥 In general, if you're familiar with Node.js and Yarn, it shouldn't be too bad to figure out.
So that I don't leave you completely high and dry, here are some general tips/guidelines:
- Try to use Yarn v1.22.17.
- If you're using Windows, look at this commit in particular. I'm pretty sure I reverted all of that commit when I finally deployed, so you'll need to un-revert it. If possible, just use Linux or macOS.
- Look at the YaTA
READMEfor how to set up a Twitch app.
- I have no plans to maintain this or host it again. I liked the idea of it being a one-off event.
- @freaktechnik wrote this JSFiddle for connecting to the game server and displaying a live list of players.
- Here's the instructions document that I shared on the day of.
- Feel free to reach out to me with any questions; you'll find my contact information on my GitHub profile.