Nova Community Games

Nova Community Games is an opt-in engagement suite for your Discord server or Telegram group — light "tribe games & hangouts" style fun that rewards members for showing up. Once an admin turns it on, Nova runs an XP + levels system, leaderboards, an automatic weekly leaderboard post, a fair random winner picker / giveaways — all free — plus, on Community PRO, a weekly AI recap and a library of engagement games a moderator starts on demand: trivia, question-of-the-day, would-you-rather, meme challenges and mini-games, all keyed to your community.

Once it's on (for the whole server/group), the fun is member-facing: anyone can earn XP, check the leaderboard, and join giveaways.

Free vs PRO

Everything data-driven is free; the AI generations (mod-run games, trivia, the AI weekly recap) are part of Community PRO with a generous weekly budget. When the budget is spent, XP, leaderboards, and giveaways keep running — only the AI games pause until Monday.

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What's Inside

• ⭐ XP & Levels — Members earn XP for chatting and level up over time, with an anti-spam cooldown so quality beats spam.
• 🏆 Leaderboards — All-time, weekly, and monthly rankings — plus "what's my rank?" for any member.
• 📣 Weekly Leaderboard Post — An automatic weekly celebration — top members of the week + the all-time podium, posted on your chosen day and channel.
• 🎮 Engagement Games (on demand) — A mod asks Nova to run a game — community questions, would-you-rather, this-or-that, meme challenges, mini-games — and Nova generates and hosts it live. (PRO)
• 🧠 Trivia — A mod starts a trivia tuned to your community; Nova holds the answer and reveals it in-chat when you ask. (PRO)
• 📅 Weekly Recap — A "here's how the week went" summary built from real activity — most-active members and highlights. (PRO)
• 🎁 Giveaways — A fair random winner picker — members enter with a keyword, Nova draws winners uniformly at random.

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XP & Levels

Every qualifying message earns 15–25 XP (uniform random), and members level up on a quadratic curve (each level costs a little more than the last). Two guardrails keep it fair:

• Anti-spam cooldown — a member earns XP at most once every 60 seconds, no matter how fast they type. This is the single most important anti-gaming measure, so flooding the chat doesn't farm XP.
• Minimum length — messages shorter than 3 characters (trimmed) earn nothing, so "gm" / single-emoji spam doesn't dominate.

When a member levels up, Nova can post a small level-up announcement in the channel where it happened (on by default — you can turn it off). Prefer them out of the way? Nominate a dedicated level-up channel — "announce level-ups in #achievements" — and they all land there instead (on Telegram, a forum topic). On Discord a level can also give a role: see Community Roles.

Checking the leaderboard

The leaderboard is readable by any member (not admin-only), group-only. Just ask Nova:

"show the leaderboard" — or ask for your own rank: "what level am I?"

Rankings are available all-time, this week, and this month.

The weekly leaderboard post

Once a week Nova also posts the leaderboard automatically — the top members of the week (with total XP earned and active-member count) plus the all-time podium. It's built straight from the XP data, included on every tier, and fully configurable:

• "post the weekly leaderboard on Sundays" — any weekday (default Monday, at your games post time)
• "post the weekly leaderboard in #general" — any channel (on Telegram, a forum topic); defaults to the games channel
• "turn off the weekly leaderboard" — it's on by default

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Engagement Games — mod-run (Community PRO)

Whenever a moderator wants to spark some life in the chat, they just ask Nova to run a game — there's no schedule. Nova generates the game on the spot (grounded in your community, or on a topic you name), posts it, and plays host:

• Trivia — "start a trivia" — a genuine question with one verifiable answer. Nova holds the answer and posts it when you say "reveal the answer" (no timer — you decide when).
• Question of the day — "post a community question" — an open, inviting question that gets members talking
• Would-you-rather / this-or-that — "run a would-you-rather" — pick a side and defend it
• Meme challenge — "do a meme challenge" — a caption or meme prompt on a theme
• Mini-game — "run a mini-game" — a light in-chat game (word games, "guess the project from an emoji", two-truths-and-a-lie…)

Say "list games" to see everything on offer, and add a theme any time — "start a trivia about the Bitcoin halving". Games are admin/mod-only; anyone can join in once posted.

AI game generation runs on a weekly budget of 25. If it's ever spent, games pause until Monday — XP, leaderboards, and giveaways are unaffected. "community games status" shows this week's usage.

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Weekly Recap (Community PRO)

Once a week (Mondays by default), Nova posts a community recap built from real activity data — the most-active members and a summary of the week. It's deterministic where it counts (the numbers come from actual data), so it's an honest readout, not a hallucinated one — and it doesn't consume the AI-games budget. On the free tier, the weekly leaderboard post covers the same celebration moment.

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Giveaways / Random Winner Picker

Run a fair raffle right in chat. The flow is simple:

1. Start — "start a giveaway for a WL spot, pick 1 winner". Nova posts the giveaway and opens entries.
2. Enter — members type the entry keyword (default join) to enter. It's an exact, case-insensitive match on the trimmed message, so ordinary chatter never counts as an entry.
3. Pick — "pick the winner". Nova closes entries and draws winner(s) uniformly at random (a Fisher–Yates draw — unbiased).
4. Reroll / status / cancel — "reroll" draws a fresh winner from the same entries; "how many entries?" / "giveaway status"; "cancel the giveaway".

You can draw up to 20 winners per giveaway. Giveaways are admin-only and require Community Games to be enabled with giveaways allowed.

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Set It Up — just talk to Nova

There's no wizard — configure it conversationally. (Setup is admin-only, in your server/group — not DMs.) @mention Nova or reply to it:

1. Turn it on:
   • "@Nova turn on community games for this server"
2. Run a game (admin/mod), any time:
   • "start a trivia" — then "reveal the answer" when you're ready
3. Toggle individual features:
   • "turn off level-up announcements"
4. Tune the XP extras (shown as "Ascend" in the dashboard):
   • "announce level-ups in #achievements"
5. Set the recap time (optional):
   • "post the weekly recap on Fridays at 6pm" — defaults to Monday, 16:00 UTC. This only schedules the recap; games are always on demand.
6. Use it (any member):
   • "leaderboard"
7. Run a giveaway (admin):
   • "start a giveaway for <prize>" → members type join → "pick a winner"
8. Check status / turn off:
   • "are community games on?" · "turn off community games"

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Privacy Note

Community Games tracks activity for scoring — it counts qualifying messages to award XP and rank members, and logs giveaway entries. Prompts and recaps are generated from your community's brief and aggregate activity. It's engagement data, kept per-community and used only to run the games.