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If you’re going to play World of Warcraft and there are things about the user interface or game environment you don’t like then you might as well break out your favourite editor and throw together some LUA. LUA is the macro/extension language that powers the World of Warcraft AddOn creation community. LUA and XML.

I have two three four five six computers at home, so I can play WoW with my main character on one, and when the going gets tough I can drag around a communal healer character on another computer to throw a heal in occasionally and play target dummy.

Playing two characters at once is variously called two-boxing, 2boxing, two-fisting, a waste of money, antisocial behaviour or cheating.

Anyway, my little healer has been following me around (on auto-follow) for some time. His problem is that he gets lost by getting stuck on walls, rogue polygons and eaten by giants!

While upgrading Wordpress to 1.5, I wrote the necessary two lines of LUA to make my healer-bot scream at my main character whenever he goes off auto-follow. The WoW API isn’t quite rich enough to provide NavigateAroundObstacle() function calls so automatically screaming for help when he finds himself left behind is all he’s going to get. For now.

Introducing my first WoW AddOn: Snodgrass’ Follower.