Cardpack IRC Bot

The CardPack IRC Bot is a virtual deck of cards, written in python using the Twisted Python libraries, that is controlled by a single user, who is allocated to be the dealer.

Background

I chat with a lot of people over IRC, and we wanted to play a card game. None of us could think of a way of figuring out how to do it with several real sets of cards in front of each of us, so I decided to write a virtual deck of cards for us to play with.

Method

I originally started writing this bot in Java using the PircBot IRC API, but gave up because it was running too slowly on my webserver Fry. I rewrote the code practically line-for-line into Python, and it was suddenly zoomy again, if terrible Python at that! It's been properly rewritten for Python now anyway, I beleive.

Solution

Click here to see the command summary for CardPack. The source code will be uploaded shortly when I'm happier with it, and will be released under the GNU GPL.

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Last Modified: Tuesday, 06-Jun-2006 22:20:42 BST