Hello everyone, I'm looking for people that would maybe help me learn to design an RPG bot on MSN using Msg+ Live! or maybe just someone that would take my ideas and put them into a working script for me. Just wondering if this is possible.

Describe wha tyou want maybe we can help.

I want to make a self sufficient bot, one that automatically responds to a user, will ask to continue a game or start a new one, save information for each user (such as race, class, and age) will have different situations depending on user choice. I either want to learn the basics (actually have someone talk to me and teach me) or have someone help me with it.

Ok I'm going on vacations tomorrow I'll see what I can do

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Originally posted by DigitalRPG
I want to make a self sufficient bot, one that automatically responds to a user, will ask to continue a game or start a new one, save information for each user (such as race, class, and age) will have different situations depending on user choice. I either want to learn the basics (actually have someone talk to me and teach me) or have someone help me with it.

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I want to MAKE one that runs off my computer, and is completely changeable by me. I want an RPG bot not a talk bot like smarterchild.

I basically want a DnD bot that runs on MSN using MSG PLUS LIVE! scripts. I need someone to teach me basic scripting or help me make the bot please.

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Originally posted by DigitalRPG
I basically want a DnD bot that runs on MSN using MSG PLUS LIVE! scripts. I need someone to teach me basic scripting or help me make the bot please.

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are you talking about like a client to assist you playing with your contacts, or a virtual DM  ?

both are possible, i've been thinking about writing a client to play DND minis over MSN, but unless you just so happen to have a master's in artificial intelligence, a virtual DM is a long complicated and frustrating journey.....

I think what he means is:

Friend: !start
Me: Hi! You have just entered the Realm of Sleightdoom. You can go !right, !left , !foward, !back and use your magic with !spell.. but first you need to choose your !race.
Friend: !race
Me: In Sleightdoom you can be an !elf, !dwarf, !human, !orc and the superclass called !Spunky.
Friend: !Spunky
Me: Good choice.. you are now of the SpunkyLoveMuff race. Your magic trick is to script like a devil.
Friend: Yay... !foward
Me: You see a doorway which takes you out of your house and into a small village..

And so it goes..

It's not difficult to make just a lot of work of which I don't have the time to

Have fun!

ps: Spunky sorry using you as an example again but coulnd't avoid it. hehe

ahh, didnt' occour to me that way, MUD style i'd be willing to help with a making a client to play w/ contacts over messenger, in fact i wrote a 3.5 treasure roller some time back lol, but muds are too much work lol

Thats basically what I meant but the GM [Game master(me)] would have a little control over it? Like it wouldnt really bew all the person choosing it, I would get to choose like monsters to attack and such, normal encounters, surrounded, etc? I tried to use the scripting documents but it got confusing and I couldn't find good documents teaching Jscript.

I think this could be quite possible if the script is running on your end and users open a conversation with you to play, but you would really need a database (preferrably a proper database as opposed to some form of flat-file database) to store players' statuses ie. their location, items, level, etc. and it would probably be useful if each location in your game was also stored in a database ie. ID, Location Name, MessageWhenUserArrivesAtLocation, IDOfOtherLocationsUserCanTravelToFromThisLocation.

If you use a mostly database-dependent approach (where all game data is stored in a database) which I think is the key to any MUD-style game as it allows easy editing and building upon, then it shouldn't be too difficult once youve figured out how to connect and query a database from within a Plus Script. But be warned before you begin that something like this (regardless of your approach) will require many hours of scripting/coding.

How would I get or make a database?