In my opinion, the other content of the game can be interesting, but sinking the thousands of hours into the game to be able to enjoy the content is much less interesting.Īnd that’s where the desire to automate the game comes in. These mundane tasks all boiled down to clicking some object in the game’s 3D-rendered environment.įor example, mine a rock by clicking it, smelt ore by clicking a furnace, go to a bank to store metal by clicking map locations, repeat this loop by clicking between locations, thousands and thousands of times. RuneScape is an excellent example, where one might have to perform some mundane task hundreds of thousands of times to reach a maximum level in some skill. I initially got into programming to automate games that required a large number of tedious or repetitive tasks. Since it’s seen rather wide use, and was presented by a much-younger me with little explanation, I figured it would perhaps be beneficial to provide some context and insight into the algorithm. The algorithm, called WindMouse, has been used in many different places, as a quick google search will show, and often appears unattributed in stackoverflow questions, despite being licensed under the GPL.

This is a post about an algorithm I developed over a decade ago to generate mouse movements that could be mistaken for actual human input.

Automatic mouse mover