discord.js - Imagine an app•11mo ago

Trying to create a game lobby of sorts

Hi, I'm trying to create a simple game with a discord bot and I want to have it create a sort of "game lobby" when the start game command is run. I have gotten to the point where when I call the start command I create an embed which shows a list of joined players, and then there are two buttons, one to join the game and one to start the game. When join is clicked, it updates the embed and stores the joined player in a set. My difficulty is when I want to send a message to all the joined players when anyone clicks the start button. I want to send an ephemeral message to each player but I am not sure how to do this. I also want to pass the set of joined players onto the slash command handler to continue the game logic. Thanks!

4 Replies

d.js toolkit•11mo ago

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xenoderf•11mo ago

node v16.14.0, discord.js v14.12.1

const { ButtonInteraction } = require('discord.js')

const joinedPlayers = new Set();

module.exports = {
    name: "interactionCreate",
    /**
     * 
     * @param {ButtonInteraction} interaction
     */
    async execute(interaction) {
        if (!interaction.isButton()) return;

        const args = interaction.customId.split('_');
        if (args[0] !== "begin") return;

        const name = interaction.member.nickname;

        switch (args[1]) {
            case "join": {
                //Add player to set of joined players, check if they are already joined
                if (joinedPlayers.has(`${interaction.user.id}-${interaction.message.id}`)) {
                    return interaction.reply({content: "You already joined", ephemeral: true});
                }
                joinedPlayers.add(`${interaction.user.id}-${interaction.message.id}`);
                
                console.log(joinedPlayers);

                const beginEmbed = interaction.message.embeds[0];
                if (!beginEmbed) {
                    return interaction.reply({content: "Unable to find poll embed", ephemeral: true});
                }

                const beginField = beginEmbed.fields[0];
                const joinReply = "Successfully joined the game"
                
                if (beginField.value == 'None') {
                    beginField.value = name;
                } else {
                    beginField.value = beginField.value.concat(", ", name);
                }

                interaction.reply({content: joinReply, ephemeral: true});
                interaction.message.edit({embeds: [beginEmbed]});
            } 
            break;
            case "start": {
                //Start the game with players in set
                
            } 
            break;
        }
        

    }
}

const { ButtonInteraction } = require('discord.js')

const joinedPlayers = new Set();

module.exports = {
    name: "interactionCreate",
    /**
     * 
     * @param {ButtonInteraction} interaction
     */
    async execute(interaction) {
        if (!interaction.isButton()) return;

        const args = interaction.customId.split('_');
        if (args[0] !== "begin") return;

        const name = interaction.member.nickname;

        switch (args[1]) {
            case "join": {
                //Add player to set of joined players, check if they are already joined
                if (joinedPlayers.has(`${interaction.user.id}-${interaction.message.id}`)) {
                    return interaction.reply({content: "You already joined", ephemeral: true});
                }
                joinedPlayers.add(`${interaction.user.id}-${interaction.message.id}`);
                
                console.log(joinedPlayers);

                const beginEmbed = interaction.message.embeds[0];
                if (!beginEmbed) {
                    return interaction.reply({content: "Unable to find poll embed", ephemeral: true});
                }

                const beginField = beginEmbed.fields[0];
                const joinReply = "Successfully joined the game"
                
                if (beginField.value == 'None') {
                    beginField.value = name;
                } else {
                    beginField.value = beginField.value.concat(", ", name);
                }

                interaction.reply({content: joinReply, ephemeral: true});
                interaction.message.edit({embeds: [beginEmbed]});
            } 
            break;
            case "start": {
                //Start the game with players in set
                
            } 
            break;
        }
        

    }
}

grass•11mo ago

you cannot send an ephemeral message to someone without an interaction

xenoderf•11mo ago

But there is an interaction right? because the players would all have hit join so is it possible to somehow send a follow up? Is it possible to follow up an earlier interaction when another unrelated interaction happens?

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Trying to create a game lobby of sorts