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Speed running web games with Python

50 points by googletron 15y ago

anthonyb 15y ago
Reminds me of Sikuli: http://sikuli.csail.mit.edu/ 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-design http://blog.oarsum.com/post/255516489/cheating-and-game-desi...
- janzer 15y ago
  I agree; Chess has so little to make it interesting. :P
  - anthonyb 15y ago
    Heh. I guess chess has been scripted, but it took long enough that I'd probably consider it to still be an interesting game.
djtriptych 15y ago
tl;dr - Python bot plays online game via point and click. Source code here: https://github.com/Audionautics/Burrito-Bot/blob/master/Burrito-bot/bison.py 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.
- ashconnor 15y ago
  New to Python, so the user says on Reddit.
  - Serentiynow 15y ago
    And here is the link to the Reddit post. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/pb63q/speed_running_web_games_with_python/ http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/pb63q/speed_run...
Vivtek 15y ago
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...
jamesu 15y ago
Many 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!
dotpot 15y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3554814 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3554814
gojomo 15y ago
Is there a script for Cow Clicker yet?
Serentiynow 15y ago
I 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.

50 points by googletron 15y ago

Reminds me of Sikuli: http://sikuli.csail.mit.edu/ 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-design http://blog.oarsum.com/post/255516489/cheating-and-game-desi...

janzer 15y ago
I agree; Chess has so little to make it interesting. :P
- anthonyb 15y ago
  Heh. I guess chess has been scripted, but it took long enough that I'd probably consider it to still be an interesting game.

djtriptych 15y ago

tl;dr - Python bot plays online game via point and click. Source code here: https://github.com/Audionautics/Burrito-Bot/blob/master/Burrito-bot/bison.py 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.

ashconnor 15y ago
New to Python, so the user says on Reddit.
- Serentiynow 15y ago
  And here is the link to the Reddit post. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/pb63q/speed_running_web_games_with_python/ http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/pb63q/speed_run...

Vivtek 15y ago

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...

jamesu 15y ago

Many 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!

dotpot 15y ago

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3554814 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3554814

gojomo 15y ago

Is there a script for Cow Clicker yet?

Serentiynow 15y ago

I 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.