Simulating Reality Since 2020
General Purpose ORG Bot is a Discord Bot built for creating and running Online Reality Games, built with Hikari.
What is an Online Reality Game?
An Online Reality Game (ORG) is a simulation of a reality show like Survivor or Big Brother played online with real people taking part as the players and the host. Players strategize and talk with each other, compete in challenges, and vote each other out just like they do on TV. Games can last anywhere from a single afternoon, to multiple months.
Naturally, organizing groups of 20 or more people for months on end, while creating interesting gameplay and scenarios for them is tiring work. General Purpose ORG Bot provides quality of life features to help tedious parts of running an ORG, such as channel creation and time management.
Features
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Automatic channel management
/alliancecreates a channel and automatically adjust permissions to allow selected members to send messages./one_on_onescreates channels for each unique pair people in a group.
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Time management
/stopwatchlets individual users start and stop stopwatches in specific channels to keep track of time./snowflakefinds the exact time a message was sent, or calculates the time between two messages.
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Randomness on demand
/tribesdivides members into equal-sized teams./choosepicks from a list of options you provide./rockseliminates a player through drawing colored rocks./slotssimulates a slots machine.
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Utilities
General Purpose ORG Bot features many quality of life commands to help make discord features easier to use.
/avatarobtains full-definition icons for users and the server./generate_timestampgenerates timezone-independent timestamp messages.
History
The bot started life in summer 2020 as AllianceMaker, when 21ack learned to program for Discord and figured that other
people would find their tool useful.
Its only function was a precursor to the /alliance command, because creating channels is one of the most tedious parts
of running an ORG. Later that year, more commands were added, the purple rose profile picture was drawn by Mirya
(rosemetal), and the bot was renamed to General Purpose ORG Bot.
It was officially launched and advertised on December 27th, 2020.
In spring 2022, Owen joined the project to help with hosting and the migration to slash commands. Since then, the bot has been occasionally updated to add more features, and to better help people host games. We have no plans on stopping any time soon. All (public) plans can be found on the Roadmap.