Game Idea Machine 
A twitter bot which tweets randomly generated ideas for games.
Occasionally funny, often bizarre, hopefully useful.
Will reply with an idea if you tweet "@gameideamachine [command]", where [command] is one of:
- idea - a totally random idea from any category
- sim - a sim/tycoon/board game
- action - an action/shooter type game
- adventure - an RPG/adventure game
- indie - an arty/indie game
- racing - a racing game
- mashup - a suggestion referencing existing games
- weapon - an idea centered around a weapon of some sort
- setting - an idea focused on the setting
- character - a game based on a particular character
- boss - an idea for a boss encounter
Comments and suggestions should be tweeted to @beeglebug
How it works
- It picks a random idea type, such as "weapon", or "setting" (it skips this step if a type is explicitly passed).
- It picks a random template of that type, such as "You play a {{hero}} who kills {{enemies}}".
- It uses Handlebars to compile the template, and pulls in random words and phrases to replace the template tags.
- It then does a few sanity checks and cleanup operations, before tweeting it (either to it's own feed, or as a reply).
Contributing
The best way to contribute is to add more words and phrases to the data set, which will allow the bot to generate a wider variety of ideas.
Thanks
- Thanks to @xanderlewis for adding more data
- Thanks to @agjmills for fixing the code indentation
- Thanks to @lordy81 for adding support for multiple tweets in a row
- Thanks to @aschearer for fixing a typo