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A personal website where I talk about myself, my career path and the most important projects for me. Technically it is an ASP. NET MVC application running in a Docker container.

Mods for Rimworld — colony simulation game by Ludeon Studios.
My mods are aimed at reducing micromanagement in the game, i. e. automating some game mechanics: automatic distribution of colony members to work shifts, assigning types of work depending on the abilities of each colonist, automatic selection of equipment depending on the characteristics of the colonists and external conditions, etc.
The creation of these mods required mastering the Unity game engine and the executable code injection mechanism.
Also, often there is no possibility to see the source code of a particular modification, compatibility with which must be ensured, so I have to reverse-engineer and decompile.

A set of bots for World of Warcraft to automate various tedious game activities. All bots worked inside the HonorBuddy shell, which took care of most of the concerns related to the injection into the World of Warcraft game process.
Creating these bots was a non-trivial task: HonorBuddy supported a narrow subset of the .NET framework, there was almost no documentation, so I constantly had to reverse-engineer and write auxiliary addons for WoW in Lua for some tasks, and all this had to be done in a way that wouldn’t trigger WoW’s bot detection system.

Bot for managing inventory, character bank and guild bank

This bot would log on to each character from the configurable list and perform a number of actions: put extra ingredients and money into the guild bank or character bank depending on the settings, craft valuable items from the list with customizable limits, auction items, collect money from the post office for items sold and items returned from the auction, and a bunch of other little things.

Bot for training and catching battle pets

This bot could form a roster of battle pets from the general collection according to the settings, form effective teams of pets, conduct pet battles with the capability of specifying battle tactics for each family of pets using a self-written scripting language, catch pets that are not yet in the collection or of better quality than the existing ones.

Resource gathering bot

This bot was dedicated to farming resources according to a list set up in its settings. It received the location of resources from a self-written service that parsed data from the Wowhead game database. Having received the spawn points of the necessary objects, the bot built an optimal route and went to collect them. The collection continued until the timer expired or until reaching the limit on the number of resources collected.

Bot for simultaneous launching of multiple bots

HonorBuddy could only run one bot at a time (one mode of operation), so I had to write a bot that could switch from one mode to another depending on the game situation and set of conditions, effectively allowing multiple bots to run simultaneously.

A set of combat bots for different character classes

These bots were dedicated to efficient combat management. For each class, I programmed optimal skill rotation for different combat situations (one target, multiple targets, lots of targets, etc.), as well as special routines to handle complex combat situations ( battling other players, using skills to get out of different types of control, etc.).