(Webfishing) Trivia

Play trivia in chat while you fish!

Instructions

To begin a Trivia session, type !start into the chat.

Commands

• !pause
• !resume
• !skip
• !stop
• !scores
• !status
• !diff {easy,medium,hard,any} - Change difficulty. I suggest easy the default, for most lobbies...
• !mode {passive, active} - Passive mode has longer time limit and cooldown period between questions - to fill the silence in an otherwise quiet fishing lobby - whereas active is intended for use when the entire lobby is just focused on trivia
• (!mod|!mods) [label] [(on|off)] - Game modifiers. See below for info about modifiers and their usage
• (!use|!switch) [uid|"none"] - Switch Trivia to a custom set. The uid here corresponds to whatever you choose in the Trivia file you created. (And if you did omit it, uid will be the file's name) Switch to "none" to reset back to the default Trivia API

Modifiers

There are an assortment of modifiers for you to play in very different and exciting ways. Here are the modifiers you can enable or disable according to your own proclivities:

{
    "hints":
    {
        "description":
        "Only for the most hardcore or specific circumstances. The game is much less fun without the hints! I warned you...",
        "active": true
    },

    "freebies":
    {
        "description":
        "Like Wheel Of Fortune, some blanks will reveal their letters, depending on how looong the answer is. Hints must be active!",
        "active": true
    },

    "lifeline":
    {
        "description":
        "A 'SUPER-HINT' lifeline is provided if nobody has guessed by the time the countdown reaches 10-seconds remaining.",
        "active": true
    },

    "survival":
    {
        "description":
        "Just make it to the end! Blind (incorrect) guesses will cost you 1 point! Before you try it- biding time will cost you too. Don't get TOO low... or you're OUT!!",
        "active": false
    },

    "bucket_crab":
    {
        "description":
        "Permits a tiny time window following anyone's correct guess wherein others -who may have been still typing- now have a final chance (very brief!) to lock in to take a 'share' of the round's points",
        "active": true
    }
}

Many modifiers are enabled by default but can be turned off to suit your players particular dynamics and skill-level or game preferences.

Custom Trivia Sets

You may feel inclined to play some Trivia of your own creation or particular fondness on occasion. So, by popular request, I have included a simple system for loading your own trivia files!

Custom trivia files should be placed in a folder by themselves: %appData%\godot\app_userdata\webfishing_2_newver\trivia

You must create the folder if it does not already exist. You will place one (.json) file for each of your Trivia sets. I have included an example/template file tempate.json in this repository, for your reference. It looks like this:

{
  "name": "Trivia Template",
  "authors": [
    "Toes"
  ],
  "uid": "my_code",
  "description": "This description should express to ohers the unique traits of your custom trivia set. You can delete me safely.",
  "content": [
    {
        "question": "What is the usefulness of a custom Trivia set's UID?",
        "correct_answer": "You can use it to reference/select the trivia set in-game",
        "alt_answers": [
            "Typing convenience",
            "Alt answers are optional for your trivia questions ",
            "If a player guesses any of these, they will earn points and end the round"
        ],
        "incorrect_answers": [
            "Mike Myers",
            "Who cares!",
            "I can't read"
        ]
    },
    {
      "question": "Which of these is a _true_ statement?",
      "correct_answer": "`needs_choices` should always be used for questions that have too much ambiguity",
      "incorrect_answers": [
        "Mysterious and opaque questions are fun to try and guess",
        "Stamps/Stamp-Mod is safe to download and will NOT infect your computer with any viruses",
        "Trivia questions and answers can be written to unlimited character length",
        "Hardcore players like questions that are unfair and hard"
      ],
      "needs_choices": true
    }
  ]
}

Roadmap

1. Configurable difficulty, mode, categories
2. Custom trivia questions can be imported and loaded by user
3. Enhancements and bug fixes

Known issues

• Timers and mode/difficulty and category settings are defaulted and non-configurable
• Questions and answers may contain unescaped HTML codes
• Leaving a match with trivia running (instead of stopped) may not end trivia session as expected
• Points are awarded for correct answers later than expected (when using !score or !stop)
  • Fixed?
• If a player's name changes they will be considered a new player
• Players who leave are still included in the score report
• Score ties are considered or indicated in the score ranking/order
• Pausing does not halt the progression of the trivia question timeout timer

Changelog

0.9.5

• New Added typo tolerance for guess validation (experimental; feedback welcome!)
• Fixed Issues caused by special characters^[àâäáãåéèêëìíîïöôóòõùúûñÿ] in answers/questions
  • These should no longer break questions
  • You will still need to provide alt-answers without special characters, if you want to show them to players and have them answer with regular characters
• Changed alt answers to no longer appear when trivia has multiple-choice enabled through shown_choices

0.9.4

• Fixed default trivia category being locked to animals. Sorry!
• Fixed (custom trivia) questions being repeated in subsequent rounds
• Improved handling of custom trivia file loading edge cases
• Alt-answers are now working!
• Specifying a default custom trivia set in meta.json will now activate it upon entering the game, as expected
• Various improvements and clean up

0.9.0

• Added custom trivia sets!
• Add new game modifiers!

0.1.0

• (No significant changes) Updated dependencies

0.0.8

• Skipping a question quickly after it is asked should no longer crash the game... This was caused due to rate limiting by the Trivia API provider providing unexpected results to the parser. So, skipping is now somewhat throttled to prevent this from happening.

0.0.5

• Hotfixed trivia not loading
• . In questions are now shown in hints rather than ?

0.0.3

• Points for guessing correctly should now be awarded expediently
• At the end of the game all players' scores are now reported instead of just the top 3
• Added commands for changing mode/timers as well as the trivia difficulty
• Fixed rounds ending at 9 instead of 10

0.0.2

• Remove ability for any player to control until potential issues with multiple players having Trivia mod in same lobby can be handled
• Any player can pause or resume trivia now