batty-251/byte-releases

By Batty 251 (@batty-251) · Licence: MIT · 133 published versions · 3 files · 29 KB of source · Last published 2026-10-05

A public project on CodeRook. Browse it at https://coderook.com/batty-251/byte-releases.

Versions

• v0.46.2 (2026-10-05): Byte 0.46.2 — Byte Play in any game, less fuss: it plays any game you ask (indie, homebrew, remakes, your own projects); the only ones it won't are online multiplayer and games with anti-cheat. It finds the game's window itself from what you say, and doesn't ask again when Byte has full permissions.
• v0.46.1 (2026-10-05): Byte 0.46.1 — Byte Play in any game: you can name the game's window ("play Zoo Tycoon in the ZT1-Engine window"), so games in a normal window work too.
• v0.46.0 (2026-10-05): Byte 0.46.0 — Byte Play now plays other games: start a single-player game and ask Byte to play it. Byte looks the game up first (it won't play online multiplayer or anything with anti-cheat), learns the controls, and plays from the picture with your keyboard and mouse. Touch the keyboard or mouse and it hands straight back to you. It always asks first.
• v0.45.0 (2026-10-05): Byte 0.45.0 — A new game coach, for any game: Byte watches the game (most pictures never leave your PC), looks properly when something happens (a new screen, a fight ending, a death), keeps notes on what you're doing, looks each game up the first time it sees it, and only speaks at a calm moment with a tip about what's actually on screen. Works for windowed games from Steam, Epic, GOG and others too. New: record sessions (Control Center, Game coach) so the coach can be improved and tested from them.
• v0.44.1 (2026-10-03): Byte 0.44.1 — Fixes Byte playing Doom on its own ('self'): the game froze at the start, because Byte's own rules answer instantly and never let the game's updates in. Byte now decides about four times a second, as in testing.
• v0.44.0 (2026-10-03): Byte 0.44.0 — Byte Play: a new player, 'self' (now the default): Byte plays on its own for free, seeing only what a player sees, mapping each level itself and learning what switches and lifts do. It now gets through E1M1 and E1M2 to E1M3 in about 9 of 10 runs.
• v0.43.1 (2026-09-29): Byte 0.43.1 — Fix: the built-in characters' detailed 3D models and 2D pictures (Nibbles, Cache, Widget, Vesper) now load in the app, instead of falling back to the simple shapes.
• v0.43.0 (2026-09-28): Byte 0.43.0 — Two new built-in characters: Widget is now a golden puppy with a wagging tail, and Vesper, a gothic lady in a sweeping cape, joins the siblings. Both have a detailed 3D model with their own animations and a matching 2D drawing.
• v0.42.1 (2026-09-28): Byte 0.42.1 — Character & look: scrolling no longer jumps back to the top, and your imported characters have their own section with thumbnails.
• v0.42.0 (2026-09-28): Byte 0.42.0 — New character screen: pick a character from the list, switch between 3D and 2D, see a live preview, then press Apply. Nibbles, Cache and Widget are now detailed 3D models made from their 2D drawings, with a greeting hop and a victory spin. Custom characters now replay their wave and celebrate animations every time.
• v0.41.21 (2026-09-28): Byte 0.41.21 — Byte Play plans its way through levels: it predicts what each switch and walk-over line will open and goes for the one that leads to a key or the exit, uses teleporters, grabs keys off pedestals, and knows Doom's real switches. First finishes of E1M2. The pets have habits: Nibbles nods off, Cache pushes her glasses up, Widget's ears jiggle.
• v0.41.20 (2026-09-28): Byte 0.41.20 — Byte's siblings, finished: the chat bubble shows the chosen one's name (Ask Nibbles anything...), clicks and drags land on their own shapes (Widget's ears and bone, Nibbles' tufts, Cache's trolley), and each has a proper flat 2D version for safe mode.
• v0.41.19 (2026-09-28): Byte 0.41.19 — Byte's siblings are now creatures of their own, not recoloured Byte: Nibbles is a round night-owl bot with goggle eyes under heavy lids, a beak, wings, talons and a floppy nightcap; Cache is a librarian bot riding her book trolley, in a cardigan and reading glasses with a pencil through her bun; Widget is a puppy bot with floppy ears, a snout, a collar and tag, paws, and a bone on his wagging antenna. They breathe, blink, look about, wave, talk and go private like Byte. Control Center, Character and look.
• v0.41.18 (2026-09-28): Byte 0.41.18 — Meet Byte's siblings, dreamed up by Byte: Nibbles (a sleepy night-owl bot, half-dimmed), Cache (a tidy librarian bot with reading glasses) and Widget (an over-eager puppy bot who wags his antenna). Pick one in Control Center, Character and look; they answer to their own names. Byte Play now always sees the nearest monsters (a demon right next to it could be left out on busy levels): far fewer deaths.
• v0.41.17 (2026-09-28): Byte 0.41.17 — Byte Play goes for keys: it knows where every key on the level is, presses the switch that brings a key's platform down, and gets E1M2's blue key. Switch presses get time to land, and it fights demons that are already close instead of backing off.
• v0.41.16 (2026-09-28): Byte 0.41.16 — Byte Play finishes E1M1 in 93% of 10-minute test games (81% within 5 minutes): it gets out when squeezed against things, presses the switches that opened the way again after a death, and never blocks the spot it presses the exit from.
• v0.41.15 (2026-09-28): Byte 0.41.15 — Byte Play finishes E1M1 far more often (76% of 10-minute test games, from 45%): held keys are pressed again after a death or a new level (it used to stand still turning), routes that must cross nukage keep going, it can route out of spots the map grid thought were wall, it takes an exit it's standing next to, and switch presses no longer get lost.
• v0.41.14 (2026-09-28): Byte 0.41.14 — Session replies only go through send_to_session: Byte no longer types into the Claude or Codex app by hand (a reply once went to the wrong session a line at a time). Byte Play can use the learned player (setting play_decider: learned; free, no key); Jev stays the default.
• v0.41.13 (2026-09-27): Byte 0.41.13 — Byte Play: tuned controls from 1,000+ fast test games: only targets monsters that are close or attacking, hides less for low health, tires of hiding from the same enemy after 3 times. About 12% fewer deaths on held-out games.
• v0.41.12 (2026-09-27): Byte 0.41.12 — Byte Play: fast headless games for training (Doom waits for each move, on its own clock), our own tactics decider, and a bench and tuner that play hundreds of games an hour. Faster route planning.

Files in the latest version

• CHANGELOG.md
• LICENSE
• README.md

README