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comicchat

Based off Microsoft Comic Chat. Uses node.js and websockets.

Features

• Comic chat
• Rooms
• Notifications
• Google Translate text-to-speech abuse (Chrome only right now)
• Basic relay support for animating your (IRC) chat

Usage

0. Clone repo.
1. npm install websocket
2. Change address of server in client/client.js
3. Change port of server in server/server.js
4. node server/server.js
5. Visit client/index.html

Protocol

Connect to the WebSocket server and start pushing JSON. Subject to change.

Send

{
    type: 'join',
    room: 'room'
}

• history, join, part require room
• message requires room and text, spoof: true optional for relays

Receive

• history --- type, history (an array of messages for the requested room)
• message --- type, room, time, text, author

Relay

If you want to watch your Best Internet IRC Friends in a voiced comic you can configure relay/relay.js and then run it with node relay/relay.js.

TODO

• More characters
• More algorithm
• More styling
• Cleaner code
• Everything else

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