Prediction Market Bot

by Alexander Lindsay

With Prediction Market Bot you can add some meta gaming to your Discord server. Users of your server use points to buy and sell "stock" representing various potential eventualities. The bot tracks the sales and uses the information to offer a prediction on which eventuality the users think is more likely.

You are free to copy, modify, and distribute with attribution under the terms of the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for details.

How to create your own bot

This bot is built in C# and uses the Discord.Net to interface with Discord. It will require Windows to run.

Create a discord bot

1. Navigate to your discord application page here.
2. Add a new application
3. Add an app bot user
4. Take the client id of your newly created bot and put it in this url: https://discordapp.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=clientidhere&scope=bot&permissions=0
5. Add the bot to a server you own

Run Prediction Market Bot

1. Clone or download the source code
2. Add a secrets.config file to the PredictionMarketBot folder that contains the token from your bot user

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<appSettings>
  <add key="token" value="YourTokenHere"/>
</appSettings>

3. Compile the program and run it (Visual Studio will make this easy and the community edition is free)
4. The bot should have now join your server!

Interacting with PredictionMarketBot

Interacting with the bot is easy, just preface your command with $market. Alternativily, @ the bot. If the bot was called MarketBot you could either type $market list or @MarketBot list, which ever you find easier.

The first command to try is $market help. This will list all the other commands that are available. The help command can also be used to get furthur information on the other commands. For example, $market help info would provide help information on the info command.

As the server owner, you will need to set up the markets for your users. Use $market create market MarketName 100.0 description to create a new market and follow with $market switch market MarketName to set up the active market. Replace the MarketName with the name of your market and description with a explanation of the market. After creating the new market add some stocks with $market add stock StockName. Once you are satisfied, use $market open to allow users to buy and sell stocks.

Once the market is open, users can use $market buy 10 StockName and $market sell 10 StockName to buy and sell stocks. $market predict will offer a prediction of the winner and $market list will the current player and stock stats. If a user does not want to participate then they just don't have to buy anything and they won't be included in the game.