Gaming Buddy

This tool aims to provide an interface to easily create helpers for various games. It is planned to provide the following functionality:

• Detect game state by image recognition (image comparison, pixel color) e.g.:
  • Main screen / multiplayer lobby / loading screen
  • Open dialogs or menus (when ingame)
  • Progressbars (e.g. life/mana/energy/experience/...)
  • Buttons (e.g. skills including cooldown/disabled state)
  • Minimaps (enemy location, fog of war)
  • Text elements (player names, scores, ammo, ...)
  • Game files (autosaves, temporary files, ...)
• Provide feedback according to the detected information
  • Generic notification windows (e.g. talent tips, attack warnings for rts, enemy information)
  • Context specific overlays (e.g. advanced tooltips for items)
  • Audio feedback (e.g. attack warnings for rts)
  • Advanced HTML-Based content (e.g. guides, wikis, ... for dual-screen setups)
• Provide a unified interface for various RGB led devices (enabling advanced RGB profiles for offically unsupported games)
  • Aurora (Logitech/Razor on Windows)
  • Logitech keyboards and mice (Linux implementation, maybe found a project like aurora for linux?)

Feel free to provide tips and suggestions :)

Developer information

Default application workflow

• /main.js Initialize electron and create the main window
• /main.js Create the backend-process (seperate thread)
  • /src/backend.js Initialize backend class (GamingBuddyApp / /src/gaming-buddy/app.js)
  • /src/backend.js Load config from /config.xml (structure and defaults) and /config.json (values, if existing)
• /main.js Load main frontend page (/gui/index.html)
  • /src/frontend.js Initialize frontend class (GamingBuddyGui / /src/gaming-buddy/gui.js)
  • /src/gaming-buddy/gui.js Render default content template (/gui/pages/index.twig)
  • /src/gaming-buddy/gui.js Send ipc "ready" message to the backend
• /src/gaming-buddy/app.js On frontend "ready"
  • /src/gaming-buddy/app.js Send config structure and values to the frontend
  • /src/gaming-buddy/app.js Load all available plugins
  • /src/gaming-buddy/app.js Start update ticks (calls GamingBuddyApp.update every second)
    • /src/gaming-buddy/app.js Update the currently active plugin (GamingBuddyApp.updateWindows - will update every 10sec)
    • GamingBuddyPluginBackend.update For the active plugin will be called every second (Updates should be throttled within the plugin)