Twister

Kids too young to spin the twister spinner for the adults? That's where this script originated from.

If you have played on a new twister board you may have experienced the new types of moves:

• spinners choice
• put a limb in the air

This script spits out some random actions to mimic the 'spinners choice' and also support the limbs in the air.

Have fun!

Usage

Make sure you have a version of ruby installed (for now), and download the script.

$ git clone git@github.com:the-undefined/twister.git
$ cd twister

You can run the script with several options, these can be found with the help flag:

$ ruby twister.rb --help
Usage: ruby twister.rb [options]
  -s, --speak                      Speak the commands outloud
  -p, --players=LIST               Comma seperated list of player names
  -i, --interval=INT               Number of seconds between each spin

An example of four people playing with each command being printed every 3 seconds.

$ ruby twister.rb -pJoe,Claire,Sammy,Martin
  Joe, put your left foot on yellow
  Claire, put your left hand on yellow
  Sammy, put your left hand on blue
  Martin, bark like a dog three times
  Joe, put your right hand in the air

If you are on OSX you can take advantage of it's built in say command and get the commands spoken aloud by the Mac as well as printed:

$ ruby twister.rb -pJoe,Claire,Sammy,Martin --speak

If you would like to make the game harder or easier you can set the interval between the commands (defaults to 3 seconds):

# Drunk / Yoga mode:
$ ruby twister.rb -i10 -pJoe,Claire,Sammy,Martin

# Faster:
$ ruby twister.rb -i2  -pJoe,Claire,Sammy,Martin

Plans / TODO

• convert script to a gem
• don't command players to move to colours that are all taken
• add pattern sequences for players to follow across moves ('Crab', 'Monkey', 'Sleeping tiger')
• create a visual representation of moves (maybe with gosu or a web app)
• replace reliance on the say command, possibly with audio files