I was messing around with the Mastodon API and also I found the old Dungeon code (circa ’91).  It looks like old Fortran code that was converted to C, as it has 1318 goto: statements.  I decided to hook it up to Mastodon and stability AI for images.

The result is here https://mstdn.ca/@zork

I added a few features to the bot.

/help - prints help message
/restart - restarts the game.  Currently it keeps the set of images it generated for that user.
/images - toggles images generating/posting on/off.
cmd:cmd:cmd - you can string multiple commands together and receive multiple outputs

Some items of note during development.

• Modification of the program to allow the use of different save/restore files.
• Modification of the program to remove system/shell commands and a few other safety features.
• I only get images in specific cases. (the description has to be >= two sentences, but less than 400 characters).  This avoided generating images for stupid things like “Leaflet Taken” .. which I may re-enable once I see the impact of cost.
• You can only attach a media object to a single post.  So if a user “looks” then “looks” again, I have to re-upload the image. Which is crap/wasteful
• The images from stability_ai are often hilarious and stupid, this was expected 🙂
• TODO:  move the program off my desktop to a VM somewhere.  Have it register for web-push notifications to avoid polling.