Godot - Discord Rich Presence in 5 min

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Back in 2017, when Discord was a way smaller deal than it is now, they released a new feature - Rich presence. It was quite a fun way to check what games other people are playing but what’s even more interesting you could view details like:

what’s the current game state
How long the game is running
and even join or spectate

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Today I’m gonna show how to set it up in just a few minutes, how to use all the customisation options and how to integrate that in your Godot game.

Setup your game

First we need to quickly setup our game:

Go to discord.com/developers and login with your Discord account
Create a new Application and name it the same as your game.
Once created, go to the Rich presence tab on the left → Visualiser and start previewing what you can do with Rich presence and how it will look like on Discord

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Add Discord SDK to your game

Once we created our app in Discord, it’s time to add special code to our Godot game to handle Rich Presence.

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We'll be using a free open source package called discord-rpc-godot

Download the package: https://github.com/vaporvee/discord-rpc-godot/releases/latest/download/ADDON-discord-rpc-godot.zip/
Unzip it and place “addons” folder in the root of your Godot project File System

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Restart Godot editor
Go to Project → Project Settings menu and in the ‘Plugins’ tab enable DiscordRPC. A nice popup window will show up, click “Save and restart”

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Create Discord manager script

Now, that we have a DiscordRPC package installed it’s time to to create a new script. It will send info to Discord what player is currently doing in the game.

Create a new GD script called discord_manager.gd , open it

Now edit your _ready function with those Discord commands:

  python
1discord_sdk.app_id = 182391410223769290
2discord_sdk.state = "Playing"
3discord_sdk.defails = "Hello Discord from Godot!"
4
5discord_sdk.refresh() # Send data to Discord

Enter the APPLICATION ID that can be found in the Discord developer portal (General information tab)

Save your script. Craft a new Node on the scene (preferably the standard “Node” type) called discord-manager
Add our newly created script to it

Now when we’ll run our game, Discord will also show a rich presence:

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Rich presence customisation

That’s the basic setup, but the good news is that we can customise our Rich presence even further! Check out this example:

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At the beginning I showed you that you can open a Visualiser in Discord dashboard to test out all the different settings - this tool allows us to easily preview the future changes.

Check out this video of mine where I show you how to customise your Godot Rich Presence:


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