Slack Integration

Slack has a very slick messaging interface and API. Investigate if we can build on this API. This would allow many more clients to be used to use chat which currently they can't, e.g. iPhone.

• Users automatically are joined to a slack 'general' channel
• Alliance members automatically are joined to a slack private alliance channel
• It is important to show in real-time that there is chat activity on the game chat-bar.
• Chat messages in slack are displayed in the game chat-bar (this might be a problem, slack is far 'richer' so it may not be possible to display everything, perhaps a text only summary.
• It may not be possible to enter text in the game chat-bar but it must be easy to join chat in slack by the click of a link.

Useful links

• Hacking Slack
• Demo app in Node