Automating Games With Jitbit Macro Recorder

The Macro Recorder from Jitbit is awesome.  For those who’ve read my other posts on automation you know that I like to automate web games. Recently I’ve had some fun playing Boring RPG, which you can find at boringrpg.com.  The game requires that you click a button every so often.  That’s it.  That’s the whole game.  Every time you click the button the amount of time you need to wait before clicking the button again increments slightly.

The obvious thing to do here is automate the button clicking.  There are a number of ways to do this, particularly if you’re on a Mac using the Darwin OS or if you’re on a GNU/Linux system.  However, unlike my previous posts, this time I’m working on a Windows 7 based system.  In my quest for a good way to automate the mouse clicks I came across Jitbit’s handy bit of software and gave it a try.

In less than 10 minutes I’d downloaded, installed, recorded my first macro, and cleaned up the recording.  This left me with a script that does exactly what I was hoping for.  The script reads as follows:

LABEL : begin loop
DELAY : 100
Mouse : 978 : 395 : LeftButtonDown : 0 : 0
DELAY : 42
Mouse : 978 : 395 : LeftButtonUp : 0 : 0
DELAY : 100
Mouse : 978 : 417 : LeftButtonDown : 0 : 0
DELAY : 42
Mouse : 978 : 417 : LeftButtonUp : 0 : 0
DELAY : 100
Mouse : 978 : 442 : LeftButtonDown : 0 : 0
DELAY : 42
Mouse : 978 : 442 : LeftButtonUp : 0 : 0
DELAY : 600000
GOTO : begin loop

As you can see, the script simply clicks in three places (because the correct place to click changes slightly) and waits ten minutes then repeats the process indefinitely. I haven’t found a way, largely because I haven’t looked yet, to add the intelligence that would increment the delay of the sleep by a few seconds each time the cycle repeats.  If anyone knows offhand how to do this please share.

What’s great about this tool is how incredibly simple it is to use.  Creating scripts with the recorder, modifying them, and running them could not be easier.  If you’re looking for an inexpensive and easy to use macro recording software, look no further.

Macro, automation, macros, mouse recorder, and automation software are the exact keyword phrases most commonly searched for (according to the Google keywords tool) when people are attempting to find the exact type of software Jitbit is providing.  Since it’s my goal to endorse Jitbit for the fine work they’ve done in producing this tool I’ve keyword optimized this page eight ways from Sunday.

Thanks again for producing this great product, Jitbit!