Server part of RPGChat project, client available here.
Project was tested with Python3.8. Install requirements python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt,
then run with python3 -m rpgc_server.
RPGChat is a messaging app with heavy emphasis on visual effects and overall immersion, built with role-playing games and visual novels in mind.
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A central server, p2p and offline replay functions
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Support for standard file formats in messages:
- pictures
- gifs
- music, shown when needed or stopped
- videos and possibility to use them when needed, for example the music can start playing in the middle of the message or when someone joins
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Possibility to create presets, which will contain text effects:
- speed of text (final fantasy character by character printing)
- color
- font size, type
- color bleed
- text glitching
- tearing
- sound effects like chirping voice (different modes, sounds), explosions, shakes, etc
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whisper: command to talk to player privately, may show to other present players as player1 whispers to player2 if desired
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special effects like window shake, bleed out of the window etc
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all of the possible actions will be available as simple scripting (styling) language:
- ex: {{tfx: type s: slow vfx: p1}} Jon: You shouldn't have called {{bg: dark_red}}
- result: all text types letter by letter slowly with voice effect p1, at the end the background changes
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gui option to highlight part of the text and select the effects you want on it, maybe with checkboxes (WYSIWYG)