About GreenTCG

Discord bot for playing GTCG The Game™! Green The Card Game TCG™ (aka GTCGTGTM) was a card game designed to be played during Flaircon, a week-long event on the Flairwars Discord server. Since Flaircon is over, the code is no longer being maintained. The game itself was played on an external website; the purpose of the Discord bot was to manage game lobbies and was used as a platform for players to challenge each other to matches. If you're particularly interested, you can find an explaination on how to play GTCGTGTM here.

Installing Python packages

Before you start installing packages, it's a really good idea to create a virtual environment first. This is especially true since this project is using a newer version of discord.py, and so chances are if you want to use discord.py for any other project you'll probably be using a different version.

Having a virtual environment lets you use different versions of different packages install for different projects, and will make installing all the required packages much easier. We're going to make a virtual environment called .venv, since this name is already in the .gitignore file (if you know what you're doing you can name your venv something else, but be sure to ignore it in your git!):

GreenTCG> python -m venv .venv

Now we need to activate the virtual enviroment. What this basically does is tells python not to use the packages you've installed on your machine, but to use the packages you've installed locally inside your virtual environment. How you do this depends on what OS and shell you're running:

Windows

GreenTCG> .venv\Scripts\activate

Unix, bash shell

GreenTCG$ . .venv/bin/activate

Unix, csh shell

GreenTCG$ .venv/bin/activate.csh

Unix, fish shell

GreenTCG$ .venv/bin/activate.fish

Next we need to install all of the required packages in our virtual environment. You could do this manually, but luckily python has a way to do this automatically for us after we give it a list of required modules:

GreenTCG> pip install -r requirements.txt

This should install all the modules needed. If you add another required module to the project, be sure to update requirements.txt!

Keep in mind that any time you want to run the code you'll need to reactivate the venv again.

Setting up the environment

Here's an example .env file, fill in all the correct values and you should be good to go.

PREFIX=$
DISCORD_TOKEN={discord token of your bot}
DISCORD_DEV_ID={discord id of developer (used for reloading bot modules via command)}
DEBUG=False