Games and activities

Activities are games your members play whenever they like. They keep your server busy between hosted events and show up in your engagement stats. This guide covers each game, how members start one, and the settings staff control.

The games

Beta means the game works but we are still polishing it, and it may not be available on every server yet.

Switching games on

Open Activities in the dashboard. Each game has an enable switch. Nothing is on until you switch it on, and switching a game off keeps its history.

How members play

• Glyph and Sudoku: /activity play, then pick the game. Rallyra replies with a private link only that member can see. The game opens in their browser and is tied to their Discord account, so nobody can play as someone else.
• The other games: they run inside Discord as an Activity, launched from the Activities (rocket) button or from your Activity Lobby. Launching Activities inside Discord is still rolling out, so some members may see "Failed to Launch" for now. That is a Discord approval step on our side, not a problem with your server.

The Activity Lobby

The lobby is one message in a channel of your choice with a button for each game you have switched on.

1. On the Activities page, pick an Activity Lobby channel.
2. Press Publish lobby message.
3. After you switch games on or off, press Refresh lobby message so the buttons match.

Each game has its own Play button. Pressing it opens the Rallyra Activity straight into that game, no need to pick it from a list. Open Rallyra Activity opens the Activity's full game list instead. A game your server turned off never gets a button, and the Activity keeps it greyed out. If your lobby message was published before this change, press Refresh lobby message once to get the new buttons.

The same section has a Copy link button for each game. Paste that link anywhere in Discord (a channel or an announcement in your server) and clicking it opens the Rallyra Activity straight into that game. Handy for "today's Hangman is up" posts.

Daily recaps and result cards

Glyph and Sudoku can post a daily recap to a channel you pick: how many people played and how they did. Use Preview to see it first, or Post now to send one straight away.

Result cards are a picture posted each time someone finishes a game, with a Play button underneath. They work for Glyph, the daily Cipher, the daily Hangman word, Prediction Arena, Type Race and Chess. Tick Post a result card when a member finishes for a game. They post in the channel you picked for that game, or the Activity Lobby channel if you did not pick one. They never show an answer.

Completion rewards (optional)

Games do not pay points by default. For Glyph and Sudoku you can turn on Completion rewards and choose an amount. Each completion then creates a payout request in your review channel, and points only move when staff approve it, the same as every other payout. A loss never earns a reward. See Points and rewards.

Difficulty (Glyph)

By default members choose their own Glyph difficulty. Under Difficulty you can set one level for everyone instead. Members cannot get around it.

Hangman words

Under Hangman words, write your own list: one word or short phrase per line, with an optional hint category after a |, for example lighthouse | Travel. Everyone gets the same daily word from your list. You can also keep the built-in words.

What games record

Every play is counted in Engagement (in the dashboard sidebar): who played, what, and when. No chat messages are stored. Games never change balances on their own.