Nova Community Games
Nova Community Games is an opt-in engagement suite for your Discord server or Telegram group — light "tribe games & hangouts" style fun that rewards members for showing up. Once an admin turns it on, Nova runs an XP + levels system, leaderboards, an automatic weekly leaderboard post, a fair random winner picker / giveaways — all free — plus, on Community PRO, a weekly AI recap and a library of engagement games a moderator starts on demand: trivia, question-of-the-day, would-you-rather, meme challenges and mini-games, all keyed to your community.
Games are mod-run, not scheduled. A moderator simply asks Nova to "start a trivia" (or any game) whenever they want to liven up the chat — Nova generates it on the spot, posts it, and plays host. Nothing auto-posts on a timer except the weekly recap and weekly leaderboard.
Once it's on (for the whole server/group), the fun is member-facing: anyone can earn XP, check the leaderboard, and join giveaways.
Free vs PRO
Free
Community PRO
⭐ XP & levels
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🏆 Leaderboards (on demand)
✅
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📣 Weekly leaderboard post
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🎁 Giveaways
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🎮 Mod-run AI games & 🧠 trivia (on demand)
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✅ (25 AI games/week)
📅 Weekly AI recap
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Everything data-driven is free; the AI generations (mod-run games, trivia, the AI weekly recap) are part of Community PRO with a generous weekly budget. When the budget is spent, XP, leaderboards, and giveaways keep running — only the AI games pause until Monday.
What's Inside
⭐ XP & Levels
Members earn XP for chatting and level up over time, with an anti-spam cooldown so quality beats spam.
🏆 Leaderboards
All-time, weekly, and monthly rankings — plus "what's my rank?" for any member.
📣 Weekly Leaderboard Post
An automatic weekly celebration — top members of the week + the all-time podium, posted on your chosen day and channel.
🎮 Engagement Games (on demand)
A mod asks Nova to run a game — community questions, would-you-rather, this-or-that, meme challenges, mini-games — and Nova generates and hosts it live. (PRO)
🧠 Trivia
A mod starts a trivia tuned to your community; Nova holds the answer and reveals it in-chat when you ask. (PRO)
📅 Weekly Recap
A "here's how the week went" summary built from real activity — most-active members and highlights. (PRO)
🎁 Giveaways
A fair random winner picker — members enter with a keyword, Nova draws winners uniformly at random.
XP & Levels
Every qualifying message earns 15–25 XP (uniform random), and members level up on a quadratic curve (each level costs a little more than the last). Two guardrails keep it fair:
Anti-spam cooldown — a member earns XP at most once every 60 seconds, no matter how fast they type. This is the single most important anti-gaming measure, so flooding the chat doesn't farm XP.
Minimum length — messages shorter than 3 characters (trimmed) earn nothing, so "gm" / single-emoji spam doesn't dominate.
When a member levels up, Nova can post a small level-up announcement in the channel where it happened (on by default — you can turn it off). Prefer them out of the way? Nominate a dedicated level-up channel — "announce level-ups in #achievements" — and they all land there instead (on Telegram, a forum topic).
XP is earned server/group-wide — it doesn't matter which channel a member is active in. The leaderboard reconciles it all under one community.
Checking the leaderboard
The leaderboard is readable by any member (not admin-only), group-only. Just ask Nova:
"show the leaderboard" — or ask for your own rank: "what level am I?"
Rankings are available all-time, this week, and this month.
The weekly leaderboard post
Once a week Nova also posts the leaderboard automatically — the top members of the week (with total XP earned and active-member count) plus the all-time podium. It's built straight from the XP data, included on every tier, and fully configurable:
"post the weekly leaderboard on Sundays" — any weekday (default Monday, at your games post time)
"post the weekly leaderboard in #general" — any channel (on Telegram, a forum topic); defaults to the games channel
"turn off the weekly leaderboard" — it's on by default
Engagement Games — mod-run (Community PRO)
Whenever a moderator wants to spark some life in the chat, they just ask Nova to run a game — there's no schedule. Nova generates the game on the spot (grounded in your community, or on a topic you name), posts it, and plays host:
Trivia — "start a trivia" — a genuine question with one verifiable answer. Nova holds the answer and posts it when you say "reveal the answer" (no timer — you decide when).
Question of the day — "post a community question" — an open, inviting question that gets members talking
Would-you-rather / this-or-that — "run a would-you-rather" — pick a side and defend it
Meme challenge — "do a meme challenge" — a caption or meme prompt on a theme
Mini-game — "run a mini-game" — a light in-chat game (word games, "guess the project from an emoji", two-truths-and-a-lie…)
Say "list games" to see everything on offer, and add a theme any time — "start a trivia about the Bitcoin halving". Games are admin/mod-only; anyone can join in once posted.
AI game generation runs on a weekly budget of 25. If it's ever spent, games pause until Monday — XP, leaderboards, and giveaways are unaffected. "community games status" shows this week's usage.
Weekly Recap (Community PRO)
Once a week (Mondays by default), Nova posts a community recap built from real activity data — the most-active members and a summary of the week. It's deterministic where it counts (the numbers come from actual data), so it's an honest readout, not a hallucinated one — and it doesn't consume the AI-games budget. On the free tier, the weekly leaderboard post covers the same celebration moment.
Giveaways / Random Winner Picker
Run a fair raffle right in chat. The flow is simple:
Start — "start a giveaway for a WL spot, pick 1 winner". Nova posts the giveaway and opens entries.
Enter — members type the entry keyword (default
join) to enter. It's an exact, case-insensitive match on the trimmed message, so ordinary chatter never counts as an entry.Pick — "pick the winner". Nova closes entries and draws winner(s) uniformly at random (a Fisher–Yates draw — unbiased).
Reroll / status / cancel — "reroll" draws a fresh winner from the same entries; "how many entries?" / "giveaway status"; "cancel the giveaway".
You can draw up to 20 winners per giveaway. Giveaways are admin-only and require Community Games to be enabled with giveaways allowed.
Set It Up — just talk to Nova
There's no wizard — configure it conversationally. (Setup is admin-only, in your server/group — not DMs.) @mention Nova or reply to it:
Turn it on:
"@Nova turn on community games for this server"
Run a game (admin/mod), any time:
"start a trivia" — then "reveal the answer" when you're ready
Toggle individual features:
"turn off level-up announcements"
Tune the XP extras (shown as "Ascend" in the dashboard):
"announce level-ups in #achievements"
Set the recap time (optional):
"post the weekly recap on Fridays at 6pm" — defaults to Monday, 16:00 UTC. This only schedules the recap; games are always on demand.
Use it (any member):
"leaderboard"
Run a giveaway (admin):
"start a giveaway for <prize>" → members type
join→ "pick a winner"
Check status / turn off:
"are community games on?" · "turn off community games"
Privacy Note
Community Games tracks activity for scoring — it counts qualifying messages to award XP and rank members, and logs giveaway entries. Prompts and recaps are generated from your community's brief and aggregate activity. It's engagement data, kept per-community and used only to run the games.