Summary of Features

• Dynamic multiple rooms. Users can create rooms as they desire.
• Room types. Rooms can be public or private, with free or moderated discussion.
• Administrative permissions. Four administrative levels -- moderator, operator, administrator, and owner -- allow you to have fine-tuned control over what permissions different users have, and where. Users can manage their own rooms by default, but you can explicitly grant individual users privileges over main rooms and/or system-wide.
• Administrative powers. There are a host of functions to take care of unruly users: kick them, quiet them, evict them, ban them, possess them, shrink them, or turn them into morons.
• Private messages and memos. Send private messages to user(s), or send memos to off-line users for when they log in next.
• Memo lists. Create your own "memo lists" (mailing lists, except through memos instead of email) for subscribing users.
• Transcripts. Users can record and download transcripts of conversation automatically.
• Graphical smileys. A small sample:
• Multi-lingual support. Individual users can adjust what language instructions, error messages, etc, will appear in.
• Lots of customization options. RookChat is fully customizable with dozens of installation options, plus lots of options that individual users can set to adjust the behavior and look-and-feel of the chat room.
• Automated password recovery. Users can get forgotten usernames and/or passwords emailed to them.
• Bad word moderation. Optionally, you can prohibit bad words by replacing profanity with more politic alternatives.
• Dice roller. Users have a dice roller available to them in the chat room, which will roll any number of any-sided dice on command.
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Summary of Bot Games

RookChat is more than just a chat server. It comes with games that can be played in the chat rooms, too. "Bots" -- programs that run inside RookChat chat rooms -- can conduct games for chatters to play. There are a lot of bot games that come in the basic package. Here are just a few of them:

• MatchBot - Compete with other players to match the best noun with a randomly chosen adjective, then vote on the best or funniest match from the other players.
• AcroBot - Make up what randomly generated acronyms stand for, then vote on the cleverest or craziest submissions from the other players.
• StoryBot - Players collaborate on writing a story by taking turns writing a few words at a time. Results can be hilarious and surprising.
• BlitzBot - Be the first to name items in a given category (e.g., "things with wheels") and get a point for each one you get first.
• WordBot - Make letters from words, words from other words, unscramble words, etc. Unlimited randomly generated questions about English words.
• CountryBot - Race to answer questions about national capitals, bordering countries and oceans, languages, and more, and identify national flags.
• WhizKid - The bot that plays bot games. WhizKid will play other bot games, such as MatchBot and AcroBot, automatically. Plus, randomized sentence construction lets you hold bizarre sorts of conversations with it outside of the games.
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