RejunteBotArv2 — a Team Fortress Classic community bot

A key part of my childhood was Team Fortress Classic, a 1998 game with an Argentine community that’s still going strong. Together with my friend Wenxi I built RejunteBotArv2, a Discord bot (Node.js, MySQL database) so players could form teams and compete against each other: it queues up everyone who signs in, draws the teams, lets people vote on the map, and hands out the server to play on. Several community members chipped in, and we even ended up competing with the bots from the US communities that were just starting to adopt this same approach.

I also ran the community for a long time: I hosted servers on Vultr (cheap VPS — TFC barely needs 1 GB of RAM) and offered low-latency alternatives for players from Chile, Peru, and Brazil, with whom we shared the community. I inherited and maintained configs from previous admins and wrote a ton of custom plugins —available on my GitHub— in Pawn, a very old language with zero AI assistance.