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In video games, a bot or drone is a type of artificial intelligence (AI)–based 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 differently from one written for a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG).
Glider, also known as WoWGlider or MMOGlider, was a bot created by MDY Industries, which interoperated with World of Warcraft.Glider automated and simplified actions by the user through the use of scripting to perform repetitive tasks while the user was away from the computer.
For some games, grinding is an integral part of the gameplay and is required if the player wants to make significant progress. In some cases, progression may be entirely negated if the player does not grind enough, for example an area necessary for the story may be locked until a certain action is repeated a certain amount of time to prove the experience of the player.
Speedrun of a SuperTux level. Speedrunning is the act of playing a video game, or section of a video game, with the goal of completing it as fast as possible.Speedrunning often involves following planned routes, which may incorporate sequence breaking and exploit glitches that allow sections to be skipped or completed more quickly than intended.
The original Thottbot was a news aggregator created by Bill "Aftathott" Dyess, founder of the EverQuest guild "Afterlife", in March 2001. Its purpose was to comb various video game websites for news and information on a number of MMORPGs with a focus on EverQuest, and later grew to include other games such as PlanetSide, Meridian 59, Dark Age of Camelot, and World of Warcraft. [4]
World of Warcraft is notable for allowing players to significantly modify and enhance the user interface through Lua scripting. Another example is Horizon Zero Dawn , which allows player to set the display of each element to always appear, show only when relevant, or never display.
Pie chart that only shows edits for the 10,000 most active Wikipedians (with bots), one slice per thousand editors (as of 8 January 2014). Edit distribution of bots (as of 8 January 2014). This data is as of 04:01, 13 January 2025 (UTC). Noted unflagged bots are included. Bots in black (unlinked) have not been used for editing in the last 30 days.
A quest, or mission, is a task within video games that a player-controlled character, party, or group of characters may complete in order to gain a reward.Quests are most commonly seen in role-playing games and massively multiplayer online games.