#Bloon td 6 mod#
#Bloon td 6 mods#
#Bloon td 6 code#

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#Bloon td 6 mod#

This made it relatively easy to focus on integrating the things the Mod wants to achieve, even with my limited experience with modding games, C# and. NET (which the Mod utilizes anyway) make both, a HttpListener and a Websocket API available natively, knocking out both the need for additional libraries to listen to/send HTTP requests and connecting to Twitch's PubSub. Thus, the Implicit OAuth flow was used by listening to HTTP requests on localhost, relaying the URL fragment using a JavaScript-initialized POST request to 'itself'.

#Bloon td 6 mods#

It's hard for a library (like the Mod Helper) to be updated quickly, but the BTD6 Modding Community has matured to a point where multiple different people are collaborating to make it as smooth as possible for those looking to get into making and using mods for the current versions of the game.Īside from being left with barely any documentation on the 'new' Modding API of the community (but great availability on the community Discord!), the main challenge was 'properly' executing the authentication with the Twitch API, as one goal was to not rely on more Third Party Services being contacted or running for the mod to function. However, as can be seen with this game and, for Example, Minecraft, the community usually is quick to do their best to provide updates when things break.

#Bloon td 6 code#

Challenges we ran intoĪs with many popular games, BTD6 is regularly updated, making Game Mods unstable throughout their lifetime as updates and internal refactorings of the code base make it hard to stay compatible, especially when the game does not provide any official Modding APIs to the community. With this as a basis, the remainder is a C#-based implementation of the Implicit OAuth Flow and listening to Reward Redemptions on PubSub, removing the need for any Third Party Server running to relay messages, triggering in-game events based on which Reward has been redeemed. If they are, however, strategizing against their viewers becomes an interesting game of out-witting each other by employing new and usually not so necessary strategies and making the best out of the random dicerolls the Rewards utilize.Īs mentioned before, the Integration is based on the 'MelonLoader' Project, which allows 'modding' of almost any Unity Game (that does not actively work against it) as well as the BTD6-Community-made 'Mod Helper' that provides a good amount of utility functions to create abstractions of game concepts that are buried deeper within the games' extracted code. In a round of Bloons, viewers can then redeem the Rewards to achieve various effects like halving the Player's in-game cash, lifes or selling a random piece of their defenses - which can cause major issues if the Player is not paying close attention. Upon startup, a simple OAuth flow is executed and the relevant Rewards are created, allowing the Broadcaster to configure things like cooldown and price on Twitch, choosing exactly what they want to use or not and how often their audience can 'help' them. So a couple days before the start of the hackathon, the initial Idea of using Channel Points, which have the advantage of being highly moderateable and limited in quantity, thus making them the perfect candidate for screwing with the Player in a limited fashion - the announcement of the hackathon then kicked motivation into high gear! What it doesīy integrating into the game as a fully-fledged Mod using the popular 'MelonLoader' Unity Modding-Injection Tool / API, this Integration seamlessly integrates into the game.

Thus, I set out to make an integration that allowed for similar amount of 'chaos' by screwing with the Player whilst making sure chat doesn't spend last christmas' savings. The popular 'ChaosMod' allowed live chat to effectively control the entire game by moving the mouse cursor and clicking on anything in the game - whilst this is fun, it's also very chaotic and can lead to chat 'accidentally' spending hundreds or thousands of real money on the games' microtransactions. As the game was on multiple sales that dropped its price down to less than a couple bucks, so I picked the game up and after seeing a bunch of content creators stream the game live, checked if any Twitch-based integrations already existed.

This modding scene is fueled not only by the many players, but also Livestreamers that showcase the mighty creativity many mods have introduced into the game. Bloons Tower Defense 6 is a popular Tower Defense Game that originated as a flash game during the 'golden ages' of flash games and has captured the interest of thousands of bored school kids in the computer lab and since spun out to be a very popular standalone game series, including a bunch of lore, spinoffs and, as comes par for the course, mods.