# Chatbots Creation **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/chatbots-creation/241005 **Category:** Support **Created:** [October 5, 2022, 11:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chatbots-creation/241005 "2022-10-05T11:03:43Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 3
### Author: ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield) #### Post date: [October 5, 2022, 1:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chatbots-creation/241005/3 "2022-10-05T13:48:31Z")
My plugin is essentially a chat bot (albeit purely for entertainment) and serves as an example of doing it entirely within Discourse: > [@Discourse Frotz mage](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-frotz-an-interactive-fiction-game-bot/140617): > > Wooah, a new plugin! tada This one is a little less serious, though. video_gameDiscourse Frotz [[image] ](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/4/7/477f2c8c14006fa019eea94d4ba9bd95b7259412.png) It’s no longer necessary to @ mention the bot every step of the way. Once in play, just reply to it. Git repo: [GitHub - merefield/discourse-frotz: A plugin that uses Frotz to give you an interactive fiction experience on your Discourse forum · GitHub](https://github.com/merefield/discourse-frotz)What is it It’s a ‘bot’ with which to play interactive fiction aka classic text adventure … The advantage of creating it as a plugin is you have less infrastructure to maintain and you have less authentication to worry about. Then again, if you are using a third party AI you are going to need to make a lot of external calls and manage those things anyway, so its 6 of one and half of the other … --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chatbots-creation/241005)._