Asklemmy

I was playing WoW and ket getting kicked out of Alterac Valley for idling. So I was like, if I stand in town and push a key every 9 minutes I could do this rep thing way faster. So I started looking up how to press keys without pressing them (circa 2004).

I figured out the key thing after a few confusing days, then slowly started scripting a path that would walk around the merchant areas and look like I was doing stuff. It was hot dogshit but once I figured that out I just kept writing more and more complicated cheats.

In university I had the chance to take real programming courses and by then I'd written hundreds of little scripts. Then I had the language to discuss my little cheats, learned about functions (I was using huge banks of hardcoded coordinates and delays in a giant while 1 loop.

Oh and I wrote a script to automate Ikariam, a fun lil web game and made it to the top 100 players worldwide. That was neat.

So in short, I learned to program to cheat at video games. Eventually stopped caring about the games, my game was cheating. Didn't care if I got banned, could always jump to a new game because the real game was cheating.