UPDATE

I've been super busy with my full time job and have been unable to complete the full rewrite that I've started working on a little while back. So, I've taken Trivia Bot offline for now. Does that mean it'll never come back online? No! I'd like to take a different development approach with Trivia Bot in the future. Here's what I mean by that:

When I originally designed and wrote the code for the bot, I was a college senior and this was originally a class project. The code was written very poorly as it was rushed. I was also an inexperienced developer at the time and it has been very difficult to scale the project given how crappy it was originally designed. So, I'd like to rewrite it in the future, but using an entirely different programming language. This means I need to completely rip it apart so I can put it back together, and this takes a lot of time.

Please forgive me as life has been super busy these past few years. I love building discord bots and really want to revive Trivia Bot once and for all. For now, all I ask is that you forgive my silence. Thanks for the support these past few years, it meant the world to me as an aspiring software engineer!

What is Trivia Bot?

Trivia Bot is a fun, fully functional, and verified Discord bot that serves the purpose of satisfying your Trivia craving! There are many different modes of Trivia that you can play, either by yourself or with others in your Discord Server. The bot uses the Open Trivia Database API for the trivia questions that are used in the game, so shout out to them for the really cool API! You can find out more about that here.

Please Note: Slash Commands are actively in the works and on the way!! For now, the bot is indeed broken for use in servers, but you can use normal commands in DMs.

Add to your server

Click here to add Trivia Bot to your Discord server! Tell all your friends, too!

Commands

There are many different commands you can use to interact with Trivia Bot. This section will be evolving as more features are continually added! Here is a list of the current commands:

• !tfchill Starts a round of chill T/F Trivia.
• !tfcompetitive Starts a round of competitive T/F Trivia.
• !mcchill Starts a round of chill Multiple Choice Trivia.
• !mccompetitive Starts a round of competitive Multiple Choice Trivia.
• !help Lists out all the commands that Trivia Bot responds to, and what they do.
• !info Responds with a Discord embed that contains links to GitHub, Top.gg, and the Discord Support Server
• 🛑 Stops the current Trivia game

The difference between chill and competitive:

chill allows all users to select an answer within the time limit competitive only accepts the first correct answer; everyone else loses by default

You can also append any of the commands to help to learn more about the different game modes, like so:

• !help tfchill Will give more detail about this specific game mode, for example.

Sub Commands

Trivia Bot now supports optional sub commands!

So...what does this mean for you? Trivia Bot can now take time [seconds] as an optional sub command so that you can extend the time limit per question in a Trivia round! This was done to make the game more accessible for those that can't read as quickly as others, or simply, for those that just want to take their time playing!

Please note: This option is only available for chill modes of gameplay. This is due to the nature of chill modes; competitive modes are meant to be quick, rapid-fire rounds which is why this option was not applied to competitive modes.

Please note part 2: There will be more optional sub commands added in the future such as selecting more than 10 questions, specific category selection, and difficulty selection, to name a few. Please stay tuned for these!

How to use the Sub Commands

time [seconds]

Let's say you want to play a round of tfchill but want to make each question have a time limit of 20 seconds:

All you need to do is type the following: !tfchill time 20

By default, Trivia Bot will give you 10 seconds per question. So, if you don't provide time [seconds], then the bot will default to 10.

Limits:

• Minimum: 10 seconds
• Maximum: 180 seconds
• Can only be applied to tfchill or mcchill game modes

Command Aliases

Sometimes you'll mispell something and sometimes you'll want a quicker way to interact with the bot. Below are a list of aliases that exist so that your original intention will be recognized:

• !halp, !hwlp, !hrlp works for !help
• !mchill works for !mcchill
• !mcompetitive, !mccomp, !mcomp works for !mccompetitive
• !pong works for !ping
• !tfcomp works for !tfcompetitive

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for instructions on how you can contribute to the development of this bot. Trivia Bot always welcomes PRs!

Help

Discussions have been enabled on this repository, so please feel free to ask any questions, make suggestions, etc. over here if you'd like! Please report bugs by opening up an issue for it in the Issues tab.

You can also join the Trivia Bot Support server and ask questions there, too:

Known Limitations/Bugs

Trivia Bot is still an active work in progress and therefore, it has some quirks that still need to be ironed out. (Contributions are welcomed and encouraged, and this is a great place to start if you're wanting to dip your toes in the codebase.) This is a list of the issues that will be fixed eventually, but until then, please know that they're there:

• This happens in both chill and competitive modes.

  User 1 selects choice B, unselects choice B, then selects choice C. The correct answer was C and the bot accepts User 1's choice even though only the first selection should be considered.

  The Discord API limits what can be done with reactions (which is how Trivia Bot collects answers). The solution would be to disregard any other clicks after the first attempt has been executed. The issue relevant to fixing this can be found by clicking here.

• The bot will throw an error, can be seen here, about Permissions, but I have no idea what causes it or how to fix it. I am actively investigating this and I hope to find a solution soon!