Zork Zero crashes the bot at move 6 with the following console output:

discord-frotz\node_modules\discord.js\src\rest\RequestHandler.js:154
      throw new DiscordAPIError(request.path, data, request.method, res.status);
            ^

DiscordAPIError: Invalid Form Body
content: Must be 2000 or fewer in length.
    at RequestHandler.execute (C:\msys64\home\exander\Development\frotzbot\node-v16.13.0-win-x64\node_modules\discord-frotz\node_modules\discord.js\src\rest\RequestHandler.js:154:13)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)
    at async RequestHandler.push (C:\msys64\home\exander\Development\frotzbot\node-v16.13.0-win-x64\node_modules\discord-frotz\node_modules\discord.js\src\rest\RequestHandler.js:39:14) {
  method: 'post',
  path: '/channels/910621836138676234/messages',
  code: 50035,
  httpStatus: 400
}

After speaking with a few people trying to use this bot, its clear my installation guide should cover specifics better.

https://i.gyazo.com/78e7fe79549cdf1914550b6b627ab1f5.png

@move_obj thief East-West Passage

And so on, not sure if there's anything I can do about it

Hey, thanks for writing this fun bot! It runs just fine now on Windows 10, so you can remove the disclaimer from the main page. It does require a newer version of discord.io (the solution to izy521/discord.io#234 describes how to install this version), since the current version is broken.

I've got the bot running but can't seem to figure out how to add multiple games. Can you give an example of a config.json file with more than one game?

crash on game load and yes i got dfrotz.exe but where do i place it in what path and who to get a .z5 game to run

Loaded Game: A
events.js:183
throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
^

Error: spawn dfrotz ENOENT
at _errnoException (util.js:1022:11)
at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:190:19)
at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:372:16)
at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:138:11)
at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:180:9)

Write basic unit tests for the application. May need to mock the Discord Bot object to get more advanced tests.

It would be nice if the bot remembered the previously selected target and listen channels.

Either the ability to specify them in the config or writing them somewhere when they are set would solve this.

My terminal locale is UTF-8, my dfrotz puts plain Unicode (not ASCII) output, so the bot encodes Unicode twice into gibberish.

Here's a patch: src/MessageHandler.js, like 310

-    var final = stripAnsi(utf8.encode(this.compiledOutput));
+    var final = stripAnsi(this.compiledOutput);

Hi! Great bot. I've been looking for something just like this.

I've been getting some screwed up formatting in my responses. I was wondering if this is something fixable.

Some examples:

JiFish - Today at 6:09 PM
$look
frotz-botBOT - Today at 6:09 PM
look
1
West of House
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front
oor.
There is a small mailbox here.
>

JiFish - Today at 6:09 PM
$w
frotz-botBOT - Today at 6:09 PM
w
Forest       5
Forest
This is a forest, with trees in all directions. To the east, there appears to besunlight.
>

$take
frotz-botBOT - Today at 6:11 PM
take
dWhat do you want to take?
>

Other the the obvious issues, I'm not sure if repeating your command and the ">" prompt is intentional or part of my issue. If either of those are, is there a way to exclude those?

I don't mind dipping in to the code if required, but I would appreciate some pointers.

Loaded Game: zork
events.js:182
throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
^

Error: spawn dfrotz ENOENT
at _errnoException (util.js:1021:11)
at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:192:19)
at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:374:16)
at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:138:11)
at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:180:9)

As requested on #39, it might be useful to be able to kill the bot from Discord. This should probably be gated by having a designated "bot admin".

Add ability/command to automatically install dfrotz if possible. As long as the user has the Git and a good C compiler, it shouldn't be too hard to figure out.

Hi! I was able to run the bot successfully.
But I found out it only works with .z3 files.
I'm unsure if .z5 files are supported.

Thank you!

So i have everything installed but Idk how to set the bot up please help.

I have node.js and npm installed

C:>npm i -g discord-frotz
npm ERR! code EBADPLATFORM
npm ERR! notsup Unsupported platform for [email protected]: wanted {"os":"!win32","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"win32","arch":"x64"})
npm ERR! notsup Valid OS: !win32
npm ERR! notsup Valid Arch: any
npm ERR! notsup Actual OS: win32
npm ERR! notsup Actual Arch: x64

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!

Direct copy of #34 comment

Experiencing same issue. dfrotz is installed normally, can be used to play the game from any location.
Bot works until starting a game and entering a command, crashes with the same "throw er, unhandled error event".

Running Raspbian (Debian variant). All packages reinstalled and updated with npm wherever possible.

2020-06-18T15_37_36_232Z-debug.log

Discord.io has unfortunately caused, or seems to be causing, some issues for users (#39, #34). To that end, I think it's time to switch over to discord.js. I've used it before on other projects with great success, and I don't think the translation process should be too hard.

Currently, if the bot produces a message that is too long for the Discord single-message character limit, the bot crashes, as seen in #53. Improve the bot by making it split up messages that are too long, noting that we need to maintain some level of consistent formatting.

I'm trying to run this on a raspberry pi and am running into an issue when I try to launch, I'm assuming that it's because some version of node or something is too old, but I'm unsure.

to be clear: dfrotz is installed and runs. I tried both the npm install and manual install of discord-text-adventure-bot, both went smooth. But then when I launch either install I get the following error:

SyntaxError: Block-scoped declarations (let, const, function, class) not yet supported outside strict mode
    at exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:53:16)
    at Module._compile (module.js:414:25)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:442:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:311:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:366:17)
    at require (module.js:385:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/greg/discord-text-adventure-bot/client-spawner.js:1:86)
    at Module._compile (module.js:435:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:442:10)

running 'node --use_strict app.js' returns:

discord-text-adventure-bot/MessageHandler.js:157
    setTargetChannel(channelID, notify = false, doWrite = true){
                                                                     ^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token =
    at exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:53:16)
    at Module._compile (module.js:414:25)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:442:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:311:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:366:17)
    at require (module.js:385:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/greg/discord-text-adventure-bot/client-spawner.js:1:86)
    at Module._compile (module.js:435:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:442:10)

I've run into errors before while running programs on the raspberry pi where the packages I was using were a bit out of date. I'm assuming something similar is here, but don't know enough to figure out the specifics. Any ideas?

And thanks. This is a cool project.

Please change all references of https://github.com/DavidGriffith/frotz to https://gitlab.com/DavidGriffith/frotz. The repository at Github is archived and will no longer be updated.

Implement the ability to save the game using the command $save.

Should have a limit to 3 saves per game, and will save all the saves in saves/[gamename]/.

The Discord API will time out after too long if there is no activity for the bot. This should be fixed by either renewing the connection on timeout or in some way keeping the connection alive longer.

Definitely caused #39 and probably #34.

The bot gives fairly meaningless errors when write() is called to the dfrotz subprocess but its been closed because dfrotz self-destructed when given a bad file path.

The bot itself should verify game file's existence ahead of this to give the user a more meaningful error.

I preface this by saying I am a layman with anything like this.

But really would like to get this working as a discord bot.

System: Windows 10 pro

Issue: The initial steps.

This is probably an issue with my understanding more than anything.

I have downloaded all the bot files the .json etc.

I have also downloaded dfrotz from the website as instructed as a windows user.

I am then stuck on the next sentence:

"All you have to do is add the dfrotz.exe file to your PATH and you will be good to go!"

I have no idea what to do next, pretty much, and as a layman, don't understand what I have to do.

Do I have to open a cmd prompt in windows and execute something from there?

The dfrotz.exe does not seem to do anything when clicked on....a brief window....then nothing.

So clearly, I am not understanding the instruction.

Apologies for being a bit of a dunce.

Regards

The ability to run multiple games on different channels (and even servers) from a single bot would be a nice addition. Something like $adventureStart gamename #channel. One game per channel would allow easy reference to running games. e.g. $adventureStop #channel.

A MessageHandler could be created for each channel, and a new administration handler to maintain them. A fairly large change.

I'm using Ubuntu on windows 10, I followed the instructions, I opened the bash in my folder where the config file is and ran "npm i -g discord-frotz", everything seemed to go fine, (had to use sudo) but where do I find the discort-frotz and how do I run it?

hi, ive done everything in the instructions,
now when i start the bot using node app.js it just kind of sits there and does nothing and the bot doesnt go online