codenames-bot

👏 Thank COVID-19 for making me update this bot. It's now compatible with the latest version of discord.js 👏

A fully automated discord bot for playing the award-winning party game codenames.

How To Use / Commands

Do -tutorial to see the tutorial. There everything is explained in detail.

GameMaster = The person who created the lobby (AKA the person who did -configure)

Command	Description	Permissions
help	Get help!	N/A
game	Check the game in this channel	N/A
tutorial	Check out the tutorial	N/A
gamemodes	See all gamemodes	N/A
configure	Configure a lobby in this channel	N/A
join	Join the game in this channel	requiresGame
leave	Leave the game in this channel	requiresGame
spymaster	Become the spymaster for your team	requiresGame
rng	Randomize the teams and spymasters	requiresGame, requiresGameMaster
start	Starts the game in this channel	requiresGame, requiresGameMaster
stop	Stops the game	requiresGame, requiresGameMaster
clue	Give out a clue to your teammates	requiresGame, requiresTurn, requiresSpymaster
guess	Guess words	requiresGame, requiresTurn
endturn	End your turn	requiresGame, requiresTurn
givemaster	Give another player game master.	requiresGame, requiresGameMaster

Self-Hosting

Requirements

• A Virtual Private Server (VPS) or a website where you can host the bot. (glitch, heroku). The OS of the VPS doesn't matter.
• Node.js version ^12.0.0 and up
• npm
• If your OS is windows, you need the Windows Build Tools. Install them via npm i --global --production windows-build-tools
• If your OS is Linux/Ubuntu, you need the build-essentials package. Install it via sudo apt-get install build-essential
• A discord bot application. Here's a good tutorial on how to create a bot application

How to run

• Clone this repository
• Inside the root folder of the repo, run the command npm i
• Create a file in the root folder of the repo called .env. Inside it, paste the following:

TOKEN=token
OWNER=id

Where token is your bot's token, which you can get from the bot application page, and id is your own discord id.

• Run node index in the root folder of the repo.

Bugs, Suggestions, Feedback

If you want to report bugs, suggest new features or just give feedback about the bot, submit an issue here and give it the appropriate label.