September 12, 2020

A Discord Trivia Bot – TriviaBot

By Craig Edwards In , ,

TriviaBot is a trivia/quiz bot for discord with 90,000 questions. It was originally created as an IRC bot which operated on the ChatSpike IRC network since 2004.

Anybody can invite TriviaBot to their discord server and take part in quizzes and trivia run from the bot. It is free to use, and the best player each month can win discord Nitro as a prize!

The bot is trusted and loved by over 3000 discord servers and over half a million users, and features, amongst other things:

  • A huge 90,000 question database
  • Quickfire rounds, which are fast and will challenge your abilities
  • A friendly and comprehensive web based dashboard
  • The ability to start and stop rounds from the web
  • Team leaderboards
  • Team hub pages, where you can promote your trivia teams
  • You can even schedule rounds to start when you’re not online!
  • …And much more!

If this sounds like something you need on your discord server, then you should invite TriviaBot to your discord right now!

For more information please see the TriviaBot Discord Bot website where you can find out everything you need to know about this project and why your discord server needs this trivia bot for its entertainment!

TriviaBot Discord Quiz Bot
TriviaBot Discord Quiz Bot

April 18, 2019

Mr Boom’s Firework Factory has been selected as an Indie Prize finalist!

By Craig Edwards

I’m really happy to announce that Mr Boom’s Firework Factory has been selected as an Indie Prize finalist and I will be attending
Casual Connect London 2019 on 28th-30th May where I will be exhibiting my game in the QEII Centre on the third floor.

Come along and say hi, or have a go at my game in person!

There will be a live stream during the event.

I look forwards to seeing you there!

February 20, 2019

Mr Boom’s Firework Factory Featured on Indie Ranger

By Craig Edwards

Indie Ranger has become the first website to officially write an article about our latest game, Mr Boom’s Firework Factory.

Go to their site to check out the article:

A First Look at Mr. Boom’s Firework Factory: Explosive Puzzles

Visually, Mr. Boom’s Firework Factory has a functional art style that’s quirky when it’s allowed to be…

Mr. Boom’s Firework Factory is a fun game…

— Brandon Lyttle, Indie Ranger

New website is live!

By Craig Edwards

After over ten years of the previous design, we have finally set a new website design live which should allow for more frequent updates about our projects and games. Please stay tuned for further information!

If you do have any feedback about this new design please reach out to us on twitter, using the twitter handle @brainboxdotcc.

Mr Boom’s Firework Factory Closed Beta

By Craig Edwards

If you want to take part in a closed beta of this game (or any future versions going forward), please get in touch.

If you want to get involved in the beta testing of this game, please join our discord! Our discord is a great place to discuss the game, get involved in the beta test and offer feedback, or even speak to us directly about the game. To join, please follow the link below:

https://discord.gg/MSU6XXK

We are still looking for beta testers, and we are looking for people who are excited to get involved before our release in July. All beta testers will be credited in the game’s credits screen and will be able to keep their copy of the game at the end of the beta test.

Each week there will be updates to the game copy with new levels, fixes, tweaks as people suggest changes. There are limited spaces for testers, so please join the discord ASAP and message me to get involved!

I am looking for people who will try out the levels and features of the game and suggest improvements and/or find bugs.

All who take part will be credited in the game credits as testers!

The ChatSpike IRC Network

By Craig Edwards

ChatSpike is a medium sized internet relay chat network, with a multitude of channels with many different subjects.

On ChatSpike, you will find the official channels of the projects listed on this site. ChatSpike is also a project in itself, featuring some advanced services modules and internet relay chat development. ChatSpike currently has approximately 600 users over many channels and covers various topics including programming and gaming.

ChatSpike has been in operation and accepting public connections since 2000 and is still active to the present day, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and hosted on our own dedicated servers.

Don’t Feed The Bots

By Craig Edwards

Don’t Feed The Bots is a project in comedy and artificial intelligence. Combining a chat bot with search engine results and some heuristics and a method of remembering entire conversations and recording them, this advanced IRC project has been unleashed into many large IRC networks to converse with people in the less desirable channels of IRC’s seedy underbelly.

Not for the faint of heart, prudish or those lacking a warped sense of humour, the logs recorded by this program are an interesting read if only to witness how easy it is to pass the turing test when the human’s mind is not on the subject at hand!

Please note that this particular project contains content which is of a sexual nature and may not be suitable for all viewers. Please use common sense when viewing the sites below.

Sporks, the Learning Scriptable Discord bot

By Craig Edwards

Sporks is a bot originally for IRC, and now for discord, which learns from conversations and can reply if addressed.

The discord version supports scripting via JavaScript which allows it to do anything that the server owner wants it to do.

Sporks has its own web based dashboard that lets the sever owner configure it without need for editing configuration files.

Retro-Rocket Operating System

By Craig Edwards

Retro-Rocket is a niche Operating System. It is created to be like BBC MOS 3.20 but on PC hardware with modern concepts, such as multitasking.

Retro-Rocket’s default shell is an extension of the BBC BASIC language. The shell is built for 32-bit Intel systems, and supports multi-tasking and modern file-systems.

The operating system is currently usable by interested developers. You can use a real PC or an emulator such as QEMU. Small FAT32 hard disks and CD ROMs are supported. Your programs may be placed on the FAT32 partitions via external programs or operating systems and then executed under Retro-Rocket.