A script to glue the Telegram Bot API and Frotz together.
Maybe an instance is running right now!

Playing games by using this bot has these advantages:

• portability: play at home, then continue your game on the bus (e.g. via phone)
• collaboration: you can add the bot to a Telegram group and play games together!
• ease of use: you don't need an interpreter or game files, just Telegram

Even a Raspberry Pi 2 is able to handle 30 different chats at the same time with ease!

At the time of writing, full documentation doesn't exist and some stuff is still hardcoded.

Put bot.py, dfrotz.py in a directory. Rename config.json.example to config.json.
Additionally, place

• a z-machine game file in the stories/ folder
• dfrotz (Frotz compiled in dumb-mode / see Frotz Makefile) in the tools/ folder
  and edit config.json to fit your needs.

Install python-telegram-bot from pip and run bot.py, e.g. via screen.

Have fun. :D