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⬐ anthonybReminds me of Sikuli: http://sikuli.csail.mit.edu/ If you check out their blog, they have a script which plays Angry Birds.I've done similar things myself, with boring online/Facebook games. If you can script it, it's not a very interesting game.
edit: Here's my take on the ethics of bots: http://blog.oarsum.com/post/255516489/cheating-and-game-desi...
⬐ janzer⬐ VivtekI agree; Chess has so little to make it interesting. :P⬐ anthonybHeh. I guess chess has been scripted, but it took long enough that I'd probably consider it to still be an interesting game.Man, when I tried to do this with Tower Defense a few years ago I had the devil of a time reading the screen. I did end up managing to do everything but good OCR on the digit status displays, though - then lost interest.I'll bet everything would work better now...
⬐ SerentiynowI would define this as a tool assisted speed run (TAS). Check out TASVideos.org if you are interested in reading more. The site is dedicated to TASing console games in emulators using various programming languages.⬐ jamesuMany times i've wanted to finish a game which requires a succession of boring and repetitive commands to complete. Automating it like i do any other development task seems like the perfect solution!⬐ gojomoIs there a script for Cow Clicker yet?⬐ dotpothttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3554814⬐ djtriptychtl;dr - Python bot plays online game via point and click. Source code here: https://github.com/Audionautics/Burrito-Bot/blob/master/Burr...Not gonna win any awards for code style, but projects like this are the kind of things that make me glad I know at least one language really well.
The source is just a few hundred lines of extremely readable code that accomplishes something pretty remarkable.
⬐ ashconnorNew to Python, so the user says on Reddit.⬐ SerentiynowAnd here is the link to the Reddit post. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/pb63q/speed_run...