At the beginning of 2020, before the event that shall not be named, I started to work on using Discord’s API to create a bot in some servers I had. My initial goal was to make some sort of AI that would chime into conversations, and be able to respond in a way that was relevant to the conversation. My frist thought was to implement some sort of text based neural network trained on some select server chat logs. And so began the journey to create the first (as far as I know) Discord neural network chatbot.
This year I finally did it, I decided to take part in a game jam! This was the first one I ever have done, and was excited to push myself. This post is just going to go into my development and thought process.
As I was busy doing college stuffs, trying to earn my Computer Science degree, a lot has changed with my family since I was gone. One such thing is my dad’s fascination with the gameshow Deal or no Deal. I decided to humor him and watch a couple episodes with him. In the middle of me wanting to pull my hair out from the poor decisions the contestants made, I wondered what I would do if I was on the game show.