Open .txt file and read a line from it? (solved)

[Alex_8BitSkull]

Check out the Lua io library:
https://www.lua.org/pil/21.1.html

Defold ref:

API reference (io)

Here’s an actual example:

Stream Asteroids (Twitch game)

The latency is basically because I fed the output of the game back through my streaming software. If the game was HTML5 and overlayed directly on Twitch then there would be negligible latency. So it’s not the chatbot solution per se that caused an issue. On my computer (i.e. getting rid of the stream delay) there was no noticeable latency at all (entering command in Twitch chat → chat logged by bot → chat log scraped by my game). I haven’t gotten far enough into the Twitch API to be able to as…