I too got into my game development career by essentially, trying to hack Runescape. I sank an unhealthy amount of my early teenage years working on Runescape bots, for both original and RS2. Every time I think back on it, so many happy and exciting memories.
From AutoRune scripts, to writing bots, to computer vision, all for one game. That turned into an obsession with an industry that had me move half way across the world to work on our own multiplayer virtual worlds.
The community was pretty active, and at one point I was building/hosting the most-used public bots/sites. I can imagine our paths crossed one-way or another at some point!
I have a very similar set of good memories. I put more time into deobfuscation, updating, detection evasion, and (eventually) server emulation than bots per se.
My contact info is in my profile, it would be cool to see if we ran into each other back then.
From AutoRune scripts, to writing bots, to computer vision, all for one game. That turned into an obsession with an industry that had me move half way across the world to work on our own multiplayer virtual worlds.
The community was pretty active, and at one point I was building/hosting the most-used public bots/sites. I can imagine our paths crossed one-way or another at some point!