https://github.com/sjml/simulatorgenerator

Creates rad job simulator game box art and posts it to Twitter.
https://github.com/sjml/simulatorgenerator

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Creates rad job simulator game box art and posts it to Twitter.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/sjml/simulatorgenerator
• Owner: sjml
• License: mit
• Created: 2014-01-08T17:40:33.000Z (about 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-02-16T17:09:48.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-15T02:12:34.428Z (9 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Homepage: http://twitter.com/SimGenerator
• Size: 6.11 MB
• Stars: 19
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 4
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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SimulatorGenerator

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Inspired by [John Walker's review of Woodcutter Simulator](http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/01/07/john-vs-the-trees-woodcutter-simulator-2013/), this bot procedurally generates box art for hot new games in the growing Job Simulator genre.

![Restaurant](http://shaneliesegang.com/tmp/restaurant-sim.png "Restaurant")

![Wizard](http://shaneliesegang.com/tmp/wizard-sim.png "Wizard")

![Pizza](http://shaneliesegang.com/tmp/pizza-sim.png "Pizza")

Twitter

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You can see it in action [on twitter](http://twitter.com/SimGenerator). 

It also has the ability to take requests, **but this functionality is currently turned off due to abuse**. If it were on (or if you were running it yourself), you could tweet at it using the phrase "make one about" and it will respond back within a couple minutes. (NOTE: sometimes Twitter gets angry at it, so it doesn't consistently fulfill requests.)

* "@SimGenerator Make one about Ron Paul, please." 

* "Hey, @SimGenerator, make one about a sweet ninja." 

* _Et cetera_. 

It won't respond to any requests featuring words from [Darius Kazemi's word filter](https://github.com/dariusk/wordfilter). It also makes some rudimentary efforts to avoid shock images and jokes that I've seen too much. 

If something goes wrong, it just silently ignores the request. Alas. Tweet [@OptimistPanda](http://twitter.com/OptimistPanda) if you think it's broken. 

Local

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Alternately, you can invoke it locally and directly by running the `SimulatorGeneratorImage.py` through Python. (You'll need to have the [Python Requests](http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/) library installed, as well as [ImageMagick](http://imagemagick.org/).) You'll also need to track down a copy of Helvetica Ultra Compressed, which we can't freely distribute. 

### Instructions for Mac (assuming [Homebrew](http://brew.sh/)):

	~ $ brew install imagemagick

	~ $ sudo pip install requests

	~ $ git clone https://github.com/sjml/SimulatorGenerator.git

	~ $ cd SimulatorGenerator

	~/SimulatorGenerator $ ./SimulatorGeneratorImage.py \

		--output-file wizard-sim-boxart.png \

		--font-file helvetica-ultra-compressed.ttf \

		wizard

	~/SimulatorGenerator $ open wizard-sim-boxart.png

### Instructions for Ubuntu; other Linux distributions should be similar:

	~ $ sudo apt-get install imagemagick

	~ $ sudo pip install requests

	~ $ git clone https://github.com/sjml/SimulatorGenerator.git

	~ $ cd SimulatorGenerator

	~/SimulatorGenerator $ ./SimulatorGeneratorImage.py \

		--output-file wizard-sim-boxart.png \

		--font-file helvetica-ultra-compressed.ttf \

		wizard

	~/SimulatorGenerator $ eog wizard-sim-boxart.png

### Instructions for Windows:

Doesn't work on Windows at the moment, because ImageMagick is finicky about the command line input it chooses to accept. :( Sorry! Find a buddy with a Mac or something. Or run Ubuntu in a VMWare environment or something. I dunno. Be resourceful! 

### Usage

Run `python ./SimulatorGeneratorImage.py --help` for additional flags you can pass it.