"Your Next Roguelike's" top hits
I made a Twitter bot a couple years ago that tweets silly game ideas: @NextRoguelike, or "Your Next Roguelike." This was a reaction to the Roguelike Celebration in 2016, where Kate Compton (aka @GalaxyKate) gave a talk on Tracery, her language for procedural text generation.
The bot is hosted by https://cheapbotsdonequick.com/ which has many Tracery-based Twitter bots, at least until the powers that be at Twitter break it with new API restrictions.
So with my new Twitter API access I looked at the past year or so of tweets from my bot. Which had gotten the most likes and retweets?
As you can see, this is not a bot that drives a lot of engagement. :) In fact, I had to remove one of the top tweets because it was actually a retweet of @tcpolymath. And two of these were probably retweeted by me because they mentioned @marissalingen.
If procedural content generation is your thing, ProcJam 2018 is coming up soon, October 20-28, and it's a very low-key celebration of "making something that makes something."
| Date | Tweet | Reweets | Likes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon Aug 06 2018 | A mashup of Unexplored and Neal Stephenson. | 1 | 2 |
| Sat Dec 09 2017 | Magic Realism Bot meets The Binding of Isaac in a procedurally-generated idle game | 0 | 3 |
| Mon Oct 23 2017 | Magic Realism Bot meets Spelunky in a Rogue-inspired puzzle platformer | 3 | 0 |
| Tue May 01 2018 | An unbelievable economic simulation which plays like a collaboration between Marissa Lingen and Jo Walton | 1 | 2 |
| Fri Dec 29 2017 | A mashup of Darkest Dungeon and Caves of Qud. | 1 | 2 |
| Sun Oct 08 2017 | An Adom-inspired virtual world featuring natural language processing | 1 | 2 |
| Mon Jul 16 2018 | Marissa Lingen meets Terraria in a chatbot-based platformer | 1 | 2 |
| Tue Jan 09 2018 | Roger Zelazny meets The Binding of Isaac in a chatbot-based economic simulation | 0 | 4 |
| Fri Jul 20 2018 | Cyberpunk plot elements and steampunk story ideas in a procedurally-generated economic simulation | 4 | 7 |
| Sat Dec 16 2017 | A virtual world like Caves of Qud, but with ideas from Magic Realism Bot | 3 | 10 |
I was thinking, wow, did somebody random find this article and like it, it's worth twice as much as the previous one. But it's just @m-hammurabi dumping some excess voting power :).
Literally somebody random in this case. (Though it doesn't RNG, it just votes the most-recent post from the lower levels.)