Play go over slack
If you're on slack, you're technically working.
A hack to play the game go (AKA weiqi, baduk) with slack slash commands. The server will respond to moves by generating an image, uploading it to imgur, and posting a link to the image in the channel/DM.
Just add a slash command to your team (a command of go is assumed for this readme), point it wherever you deploy this server.
You can run the server on heroku - you can get help with this here. Basically, install the heroku toolbelt, heroku login, add a remote heroku git:remote -a <app-name>, and push.
If you use a free heroku instance, your app will spin down after an hour with no requests. This will cause you two annoying problems.
- Game state is only stored in memory, so it doesn't persist across app restarts. Sorry.
- It takes a really long time for the app to spin up after being idle, so you'll invariably get told your slack command timed out on your first attempt to use the app after going idle. Just wait a few seconds and try again.
/go start <user1> <user2> [board-dimension]
Start a game with user1 playing black and user2 playing white. board-dimension defaults to 9.
/go play <move>
Plays a move. Moves look like d6
/go show
Image of the current board state
/go pass
Allow the other player to go
/go score [komi]
Score a finished game with a naive algorithm
/go end
Finish the game, which allows another game to start on the channel or DM
/go kick
Wake up the bot (useful for an idle heroku instance)
/go help
Display this help text