game bot
Digital opponent program
A game bot is an automated program that plays a video game, either replacing or assisting human players.
Bots may grind repetitive tasks, farm resources, or compete against real players—often violating terms of service: Half the accounts in that server are game bots.
Some games include built-in bots for practice or to fill empty slots.
- automatedOperating without human control
- scriptWritten words for performance
- cheatAct dishonestly to win
- AISimulated cognitive processing
- playerGame participant
multiplayer · farming · grinding · macro · hack · exploit · NPC · spawn · server · ban · terms of service · fair play · detection · account · online · MMO · RuneScape · aimbot
- botschatbot, chatbots, botnets, botnet, fake followers
- game AIchess engine, minimax, search algorithm, pruning, decision trees