This mod for Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? opens a websocket to allow programmatic control of the game.
Apart from that, there are various patches made to make the game more stream-friendly, such as removing repeated voice lines and allowing external control over the Ask the Audience and Phone a Friend lifelines.
The menus are navigated automatically, but you can hold Shift to take manual control. Additionally, you can press Q to resend the question over the websocket.
Please note that there is a bug which makes it so that if you press Space, even if the game is unfocused, it will skip certain actions which might cause problems.
This mod needs BepInEx 6 mod loader.
If you use this mod for your own content creation purposes, it would be cool if you credited AlexejheroDev and vedal987.
There is a sample websocket server in the WSTest folder to help.
All Websocket messages (both C2S and S2C) have the following format:
{
Command: string,
Data?: {[key: string]: any}
}{
Command: "client"
}Sent when the client is initialized. You can ignore this server-side.
{
Command: "launched"
}Sent when the client is launched.
You should respond to this with Select language.
{
Command: "ready",
Data: {
availableDifficulties: [ "easy", "normal" ],
availableCategories: string[]
}
}Sent when the game is ready to start.
You should respond to this with Start game.
{
Command: "character",
Data: {
name: string,
age: string,
profession: string,
passion: string
}
}Sent when a character is scrolled to in-game during the character select screen.
You should respond to this event with Character response.
{
Command: "question"
Data: {
question: string,
answerA?: string,
answerB?: string,
answerC?: string,
answerD?: string,
lifelines: ("50_50" | "phone_a_friend" | "ask_the_audience" | "flip_the_question")[]
}
}Sent when the game prompts a new question. The lifelines array will contain the remaining available lifelines. Note that after a 50/50 lifeline is used, two of the answer properties will be missing (undefined).
You should respond to this event with Answer or Use lifeline.
{
Command: "answer/correct"
}Sent when a question is answered correctly.
{
Command: "lifeline/ask_the_audience/confirm_start"
}Sent when the Ask the Audience lifeline is started in the game. You should use this event to run your own Ask the Audience logic.
You should respond to this event with Ask the Audience results once your custom logic is finished.
{
Command: "lifeline/phone_a_friend/confirm_start"
}Sent when the Phone a Friend lifeline is started in the game. You should use this event to run your own Phone a Friend logic.
{
Command: "lifeline/phone_a_friend/ringtone_start"
}Sent after the Phone a Friend voice lines and camera animations are finished in the game. You can use this event to play a ringtone sound to simulate a call.
You can respond to this event with Phone a Friend results once your custom logic is finished, if it is finished early.
{
Command: "lifeline/phone_a_friend/request_end"
}Sent after the 30s are up and the Phone a Friend lifeline has ended. You should use this event to end your Phone a Friend logic.
You should respond to this event with Phone a Friend results as soon as possible.
{
Command: "finish",
Data: {
won: boolean
}
}Sent when the game ends, which happens if a question is answered incorrectly or if all 15 questions were answered correctly.
{
Command: "language",
Data: {
language: "EN_UK" | "EN_US" | "FR" | "ALL" | "ITA" | "ESP"
}
}Send this to choose the language in which you want to play the game. ALL is for German.
{
Command: "start",
Data: {
difficulty: "easy" | "normal",
categories: string[]
}
}Send this to start the game. If you choose the easy difficulty, it does not matter what categories you choose. The categories array should be identical to or a subset of the availableCategories array sent in Ready to start
{
Command: "character/response",
Data: {
accept: boolean
}
}Send this to either accept the chosen character and start the game or to move on to the next character.
{
Command: "answer",
Data: {
answer: "A" | "B" | "C" | "D"
}
}Send this to answer a question. Please ensure that you don't send an answer that has already been removed by the 50/50 lifeline.
{
Command: "lifeline",
Data: {
lifeline: "50_50" | "phone_a_friend" | "ask_the_audience" | "flip_the_question"
}
}Send this to attempt to use a lifeline. Do not run your own lifeline logic until the mod sends Confirm lifeline Ask the Audience or Confirm lifeline Phone a Friend.
After 50_50 or flip_the_question, the mod will send back the new Question.
If you try to use a lifeline that has already been used, nothing will happen.
{
Command: "lifeline/ask_the_audience/results",
Data: {
percentageA: number,
percentageB: number,
percentageC: number,
percentageD: number
}
}Send this after your custom Ask the Audience logic is finished. The percentage fields are integers from 0 to 100.
Keep in mind that the game's regular Ask the Audience music has been extended to just above 1 minute, so your poll should take 1 minute or less.
If this lifeline is called after 50/50 and the current question has two missing answers, it is your job to prevent those answers from being added to the poll, and your job to send those percentages back as 0.
{
Command: "lifeline/phone_a_friend/results",
Data: {
result: "A" | "B" | "C" | "D" | "?"
}
}Send this after your custom Phone a Friend logic is finished. If your logic is interrupted by End Phone a Friend, you still need to send this as soon as possible.
The result will be displayed on-screen, however if you cannot determine what was suggested by the friend or you simply don't want to bother doing it, you can send back ?.