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I wonder if you played anybody who was also proxying Windows chess? Battle of the computer wits!
It would be interesting to have the various consumer chess programs play each other a few hundred times to see who wrote the best chess bot.
http://www.husvankempen.de/nunn/ http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/ http://ssdf.bosjo.net/list.htm
There are more but these are the reliable and longest running that I know of.
A long long time ago before I ever wrote a line of code, I'd just play all the games I could. I was fascinated by how they worked. I later found a book on BASIC that introduced programming by having the reader write simple word games. After learning the basics, I then would wonder how FF1 managed to change states from being in a tiled map and exploring the world into a battle screen and back again, which led me to mo…
Cool story, and I can see the appeal. But as a (long ago) competitive CS player, I hate(d) your kind.
But leagues actually made things more interesting. They started creating their own anti-cheats and those were just new shiny toys to break as well. It's quite satisfying to defeat them, even if the goal isn't to cheat in a league.
A long long time ago before I ever wrote a line of code, I'd just play all the games I could. I was fascinated by how they worked. I later found a book on BASIC that introduced programming by having the reader write simple word games. After learning the basics, I then would wonder how FF1 managed to change states from being in a tiled map and exploring the world into a battle screen and back again, which led me to mo…
were you part of any communities? mpc, ogc, game-deception?
In 2009, when Farmville was the New Hotness, I checked it out to see what all the fuss was. After all, it was rumored to be minting $1 million per day. Soon after, I saw that a lot of my friends were playing. Girlfriends were getting boyfriends to tend their crops for them while at work. They were very scrupulous with the design of their farm and tending their crops. But I wanted to just be at the top of the leaderbo…
http://www.sikuli.org Is my GOTO GUI scripting language for game scripting. Graphic templates are fuzzy matched. Actual scripts are python. Inbuilt OCR. I can do that kinda thing very fast. Its really awesome and put of MIT
I once lost a license key for a major enterprise system. It had to get a demo up and running ASAP. Luckily, it was an ASP.Net app. I was able to use .NET Reflector, find a code rewriting plugin, and I blanked out the function that did the cert check (always made it return true) and I was able to login.
It's also incredibly insightful as a developer to see how crappy code can exist in very expensive software.
In 2009, when Farmville was the New Hotness, I checked it out to see what all the fuss was. After all, it was rumored to be minting $1 million per day. Soon after, I saw that a lot of my friends were playing. Girlfriends were getting boyfriends to tend their crops for them while at work. They were very scrupulous with the design of their farm and tending their crops. But I wanted to just be at the top of the leaderbo…
http://www.sikuli.org Is my GOTO GUI scripting language for game scripting. Graphic templates are fuzzy matched. Actual scripts are python. Inbuilt OCR. I can do that kinda thing very fast. Its really awesome and put of MIT
Even though it doesn't have a winning / losing condition, I had coded an automated bot[0] to draw for me in Doodle or Die[1]. Stopped using it when people started complaining though. It was supposed to be quick and dirty, that's why it's a windows forms application. But of course I kept improving it for a while. After implementing a very basic plug-in system, I realized I was spending too much time on it =) Here's an…
Hi, I'm one of the creators of Doodle or Die. The drawing tool in the game and the anti-cheating systems are both things I created. I'm impressed with your app. Instead of converting a bitmap to a pixel-by-pixel rendention (which people have done and it looks obvious) it re-draws it like a real drawing, picking one color at a time. Paying users get a replay feature. It replays fairly realistically and that's difficul…
Thanks, it's great to hear that from you. I was also going to implement the brush changing logic which would enable it to draw on large areas of single color with a big brush and further optimize other parts to make it even more realistic (detect shapes and draw them completely and draw over them like humans and so) but then I thought, that would ruin the fun. Actually I'm a paying user of the game[0] and never had the intention of ruining the fun for anyone, so I stopped. I'm a big fan of DoD and how it evolved.
Keep up the good work, and thanks for being nice =)
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Cool story, and I can see the appeal. But as a (long ago) competitive CS player, I hate(d) your kind.
I competed in a couple of the early CAL seasons legitimately (main and then invite). Most of us never condoned cheating in league play or even in most public servers. That's the part where you're ruining games for other people. There were, at one point, quite a few servers dedicated to cheating, however, and even a competitive scene to see who could make the best cheats. But leagues actually made things more interest…
But like I said, I can see the appeal of creating the cheats at least. My first introduction to real programming was creating a mIRC script that would login and "vote" on a popular local website where there was a 15 minute delay between votes - where the developer kept changing forms and URLs to stop my script from working.