Satellite Beach News on Discord
Figure out why someone’s gone missing on a fictional town’s Discord
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Satellite Beach News is a ARG-like text adventure game where you'll explore a fictional town's Discord and unravel a mystery about a mysterious man and a woman that's gone missing.
The game was entirely developed on Discord using webhooks using Javascript, where players would traverse text, Youtube video comments, and make phone calls in order to find passcodes to unlock channels to unravel the mystery of the missing person.
The story included 15 characters telling the story of how Charlotte went missing. I used webhooks created with Javascript, and Discord plugins in order to unlock new channels that would tell more story about how to find Charlotte and her backstory.
Contributions
Why would someone make a mystery on Discord?
I wanted to learn more about using Discord, role management, bots, and webhooks. The project seemed low-scope at first and I’d thought it would take a weekend, but I ended up doing quite a bit of playtesting to improve the narrative and make sure the bots I was using for the passcode worked correctly. So the project took about a week. I was also using a VOIP phone service that I’ve since deprecated to allow players to make a phone call to get a passcode from a voicemail. I learned quickly that people don’t like making phone calls to random numbers, and that it’s very important to make sure that you’re randomizing actual fake phone numbers.
It was a fun side project, and I learned a lot about Discord.