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Automated Playtester Bot

A bot that plays your web game and reports bugs and difficulty spikes.

Advanced24h1–2 people16/20 fit
TL;DR

Build Automated Playtester Bot for indie game developers in ~24h with 1–2 people. Stack: Playwright + Node.js + ECharts.

Why it wins: Devtools meets gaming.

Build flow

01 · Problem
Indie developers cannot afford QA testers.
02 · Solution
Drive the game with Playwright, explore with random and goal-seeking inputs, record crashes, stuck states and heatmaps.
03 · Build
  1. 1Connect to game
  2. 2Generate inputs
  3. 3Detect states
  4. 4Report
04 · Demo
Show a heatmap of where the bot got stuck.

MVP checklist

  • Automated play
  • Crash capture
  • Stuck detection
  • Heatmaps

Tech stack

TechRole
PlaywrightBrowser automation
Node.jsBackend runtime
EChartsInteractive charts

Reference repos

Open-source projects you can build on. Links checked 2026-10-31.

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