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groupwrite-io / groupwrite.io

A realtime collaborative writing game
http://groupwrite.io/
MIT License
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Facebook bot to notify players when there's a game #65

Open ripper234 opened 7 years ago

ripper234 commented 7 years ago

Our primary problem is that it's hard to get three players together at the same time.

A solution could be an option to subscribe via Facebook to be notified when there are enough players. This would be a button on the queue page that would register you to a GroupWrite bot.

This bot notifies players whenever the number of players in the queue increases.

Example conversation with the bot:

Hello, and welcome to GroupWrite.
I will notify you whenever there are players available.
A game will commence once we have three players at the same time.

You can always tell me to shut up or mute me if I bother you too much.

...

A player joined the queue. If you and another player joins, we'll have a game:
http://groupwrite.io/

...

Two players are in the queue right now!!! If you join now, the three of you can play now.
http://groupwrite.io/

(In the future, we can add filtering Do you want me to only notify you on specific times? (e.g. 8-10pm + weekend). Right now, let's notify everybody all the time)

ripper234 commented 7 years ago

Lowering priority, we're going with a launch event instead, which should bring enough players together at the same time.