I cut out most of the things in my sig and added something about my only current project

I bought almost 20 of those at the steam sale

It can be hard. It requires some though to learn, but pretty much all the rules are extremely basic things.

it would be possible, but to have a real fun game you need a good amount of people.

I was recently at a robotics conference where every night a large group of students would play Mao(a card game) together. I've started to really like it so I decided to write an IRC bot to let me play it. It is currently running on efnet and OmniNET in #omnimaga-games and supports OmnomIRC also

It currently does just the basics required of a bot and should be ready for release

Here is what it currently does
Command List
!join for joining a game
!call <target> <rule> for calling someone on breaking a rule
 -wrong/bad card or out of turn gives someone their card back and gives them another card
 -wrong/bad call reverses the last call by target and gives them a card
!view pm's you with your current hand
!quit has you leave the current game
!play <number> of <suit> plays that card. It is case sensitive
!draw gives you a card
!start creates a new game
!order the order of players by join time
!count <target> tells you how many cards the player has left
!countAll tells you how many cards each person in the game has leftIt will also shuffle in a new deck if it starts running out of cards so you can always continue play(hopefully)

Please join, play, have fun, and offer suggestions for further improvement and bug fixes.

code is hosted on github at https://github.com/ruler501/maobot

EDIT: Polished up first post

Its now on efnet under #omnimaga-games. I'll get it to work cross network later

We just watched movies and played comp games when our AP tests were done

I really liked it and if you want to play at some point my IRC bot for it should be finished(or at least ready for testing) soon