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automat
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mafik / automat

automat

A tangible interface for virtual things

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A tangible interface for virtual things

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Observed mentions: 2024-11-07 14:36:04 UTC to 2026-01-30 17:39:05 UTC.

012342024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 commentsNov 20242024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJun 20252025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsJan 2026

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What Hacker News says

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mafik·Jan 30, 2026Submission

Show HN: Automat – A New (Game) Automation Utility

I’m happy to say that a new open-source game automation utility that I’ve been working on for the past 2 years is now coming to Steam! It has a website at https://automat.org/. That website might be a little hard to parse though - so here are are some links: you can check it out on video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBT9XO61B5I (I usually do a short intro on every development livestream) GitHub is here: https://github.com/mafik/automat an article about Automat: https://automat.org/live2025 (if you have any questions - check this out first!) and the Steam page is here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4122050/Automat/ While Steam version is still in “coming soon” mode, you can grab a release from GitHub. Please note that even though it's free on GitHub, Steam Wishlists are still important for visibility - this is what drives the
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Steam algorithm! The easiest way to help out is to hit the wishlist button :P One word of warning - it doesn’t play well with Wayland (it’s fairly hard to interop with other apps on Wayland) - but I’m optimistic about this bit in the near future... And finally - don't be fooled by it's seemingly game-oriented focus. At it's core it's a visual programming environment!
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AnyTimeTraveler·Nov 7, 2024
From the Github Readme[1]: Automat's objective is to be able to semi-autonomously play a variety of games. It's the first step towards a more general environment for interacting with computers. Currently Automat's functionality is limited to keyboard macro recording & playback. It's fairly unstable but if you're lucky and it runs on your machine, it can be useful for automating some basic actions. [1] https://github.com/mafik/automat
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