Making Pizza with Python

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by prog • 15 years ago

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johnconroy• 15 years ago

amazing work. Now for the pokerbot...

wladimir• 15 years ago

Yep, that's where the AI comes in. The screen-scraping is the easy part.

wigginus• 15 years ago

The University of Alberta has a research group devoted to the problem: http://poker.cs.ualberta.ca/

anthonyb2• 15 years ago

I tend to do similar things with the games that I play, including Farmville. Once I've figured out the optimal strategy for things, I find that it's much more interesting to code it up, rather than go through the motions.

Some people consider it cheating, but I consider it more 'taking advantage of suboptimal game design', ie. if I can script it, it's likely not a very interesting game in the first place.

cdr• 15 years ago

I assume by "if I can script it" you mean strategy? Every single computer game can be scripted, and most have - including poker, complex MMOs, complex RTS games, etc.

I doubt you'd find many people that'd agree that having a program play the game for you isn't cheating, no matter how boring you might find the game.

anthonyb2• 15 years ago

Well, perhaps rephrase that to "If I can script it with less effort than it takes to play the game..." Farmville is a case in point - they have shiny stuff like tractors to take the tedium out of playing... :\

How about they write a decent game where I have to make complex decisions in the first place, rather than clicking on buttons over and over? I wrote a fairly involved rant about it a while back: http://blog.oarsum.com/post/255516489/cheating-and-game-desi...

pepijndevos• 15 years ago

Could anyone upload a vid? I don't run Windows.

kazuya• 15 years ago

RoboGamer uses the same interfaces human uses (i.e. video and a joystick) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vH62EEfH6E

There was another project, vArashi, to achieve similar, circa 2001.

And probably you remember rogomatic...

RodgerTheGreat• 15 years ago

If anyone's interested in doing something similar in Java or another JVM language, check out the AWT Robot[1]. It's one of those hidden gems of the Java API.

[1] http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/awt/Robot....

_b8r0• 15 years ago

Seriously, you shouldn't have posted this. My weekends are busy enough without building gambling bots too ;)

Sukotto• 15 years ago

Very interesting programming project. I'll have to give that a try sometime.

For day-to-day automation of stuff, I like to use sikuli [1] which lets you automate pretty much anything in a gui using screenshots. (Their editor is pretty cool). It's a research project so a bit rough around the edges, but still worth your time to check it out if you're at all interested in automation (auto-configuring systems, driving applications, playing flash games, etc)

[1] http://sikuli.csail.mit.edu/

Making Pizza with Python

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