Quip Bot is a Discord bot that implements a multiplayer game that takes inspiration from the popular party game “Quiplash”. I created this project with two other team members for our UW CSE 143 final project. We wanted to create QuipBot because we’ve all enjoyed playing similar online party games throughout quarantine. Also, as avid users of Discord, we thought that it would be a fun and rewarding experience creating a game within such a familiar, popular application. I focused on giving QuipBot its visual identity, creating the design of the game within Discord. I also designed the logo, graphics, and presentation.

QuipBot can be invited into any server as a bot, accessing the server’s input from multiple players, and displaying the game’s text-based output in a series of rounds. The bot will have voting mechanisms through emote reactions and keep track of player scores. Players can input their own prompts that the bot stores as a list. Pairs of players will then receive a random prompt that another player created, and respond to it in a witty manner. Once every player has responded, these pairs of players will have their responses shown simultaneously, then judged through other players’ message reaction emotes. The points are distributed accordingly, and the next round continues!

Since most of us use Discord ourselves, gaining a deeper understanding of a system that we casually use every day with our friends was definitely fulfilling and educational. During our learning and testing process, it was extremely fun making bots that could do entertaining, inside-joke-esque things within our friend groups. Making a program like a bot that could be instantly tangible and interactive was satisfying as well. Seeing our friends enjoy testing the game was a great feeling, and was extremely encouraging towards making progress and creating new features for our game bot. Additionally, coding and birthing a bot that works well with a team certainly created a strong bond between our group and will be a fond memory of our friendship in the future and beyond.