Hello everybody,


Today I've released "Discord RPC D" - a static binding to, guess what, "Discord RPC". It's the successor of my previous Derelict one which unfortunately didn't work as expected.


# Discord, should I know this thing?

Discord is modern popular text+voice chat client (some see it as replacement for Teamspeak and Skype). There's also a D community server that has been mentioned here before[0].


# So, what's this "Rich Presence"[1] about?

Well, it's the way of integrating your game/app into Discord.

It allows to display your game/app's title and a few stats about a player's current session on the their status box in Discord. Beyond an image (you can upload multiple ones and choose which one to display from your game, so different levels in your game can feature different ones) plus an icon, Rich Presence allows to show timers. This all is more or less free promotion for your game and can be incentive for others.

Moreover, it brings to opportunity to extend multiplayer game-matching mechanisms - players can invite other users to multiplayer parties and those can join such session with just a click in Discord.
For more details you might want to checkout the Rich Presence page[1].


# To my package

It's on DUB[2] and should be straight-forward to use. It's compatible with Discord RPC v3.3.0, as the version tag of the package suggests.
The Discord RPC library is open source and licensed under terms of the MIT license.


# Usage

Checkout the bundled "send-presence" example[3]. Please note that it's a D port of the original C example.


Thanks for reading :)
 - Elias


[0] https://forum.dlang.org/post/xstmkudtcpogxhvcecid@forum.dlang.org
[1] https://discordapp.com/rich-presence
[2] https://code.dlang.org/packages/discord-rpc
[3] https://github.com/voidblaster/discord-rpc-d/blob/master/examples/send-presence/send_presence.d