[Ottawa-pm] Lacuna Expanse: A massively multiplayer online strategy game built with perl

[Clayton Scott]

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Dave O'Neill <dmo at acm.org> wrote:

> I had a lot of fun automating away the drudgery in another web-based
> strategy game (Tribal Wars) a few years ago.  The constraints were a bit
> different -- the game allowed add-on tools, browser extensions, etc, but did
> not provide API access and forbade unattended bots.

Yeah, there is a full REST API and all of the Graphical UIs use that
same API exclusively.
A couple of times I was able to write a small utility that took
advantage of parts of the API
that the UI didn't implement for a week or more after the release.


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Clayton Scott
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