Video Game Bot

A Video Game Bot is an video game AI that plays the game in the place of a human.

• Example(s):
  • Sheva Alomar in Resident Evil 5.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • Player Character.
• See: Grinding, Non-Player Character, Video Game AI, Expert System, First-Person Shooter, Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game, Level, Machine Learning, Aimbot.

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References

2017

• (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_bot Retrieved:2017-5-26.
  • In video games, a bot is a type of Video Game AI expert system software that plays a video game in the place of a human. Bots are used in a variety of video game genres for a variety of tasks: a bot written for a first-person shooter (FPS) works very differently from one written for a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). The former may include analysis of the map and even basic strategy; the latter may be used to automate a repetitive and tedious task like farming.

    Bots written for first-person shooters usually try to mimic how a human would play a game. Computer-controlled bots may play against other bots and/or human players in unison, either over the Internet, on a LAN or in a local session. Features and intelligence of bots may vary greatly, especially with community created content. Advanced bots feature machine learning for dynamic learning of patterns of the opponent as well as dynamic learning of previously unknown maps – whereas more trivial bots may rely completely on lists of waypoints created for each map by the developer, limiting the bot to play only maps with said waypoints.

    Using bots is generally against the rules of current massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), but a significant number of players still use MMORPG bots for games like RuneScape.

    In MUDs, players may run bots to automate laborious tasks: this activity can sometimes make up the bulk of the gameplay. While a prohibited practice in most MUDs, there is an incentive for the player to save his/her time while the bot accumulates resources, such as experience, for the player character.

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