Akinator

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20 Questions with Akinator

The Ravestate Akinator module offers an implementation of the 20 questions game. It consists of a wrapper for the API calls to the Akinator web game and several states to handle the game flow with the interlocutor.

Architecture

This is an overview of the dialog flow for the 20 questions game.

Starting the Game

There are two possibilities to trigger the game: 1. Interlocutor input: "I want to play", "I like games" or something similar 2. Automatically through Ravestate: When the system gets bored (no dialog states are active but an interlocutor is present) then Akinator is one of the possible modules that will be triggered.

The API Wrapper

api.py handles the requests to the online Akinator game. There are three different types of get requests to handle the game: 1. Question asking phase: post the answer to the previous question and retrieve the next question 2. Guessing phase: retrieve the guess 3. Game finishing phase: give Akinator feedback on his guess