Description
(probably sometime around 2019-2020) Playing dps in Overwatch meant that queue times could be 10-15 min long. Which was far too long for me to just sit and wait. So instead of sitting by the computer I figured it would be much better to go and walk around a bit and maybe grab some water or whatever. But I would sometimes miss that the game started and coming in late to the game.
So I needed a way to get notified when it started.
Solution
When entering a game the queue "popup" at the top of the screen would dissapear. Since it has a static color I could have a script just looking at a pixel Using python and some library to get pixels from the screen I was able to hack together a discord bot that would send me a notification as soon as that pixel changed. Later I figured this could be useful for other queues and games, etc... So I swapped it to look at the pixel under the cursor in order to accomodate different situations.
Result
No Gif since it's just running in the background looking at a single pixel and then sending a discord message
Looking back
I think there's many ways to go about it to setup a queue notifier but honestly the pixel looker is very adaptable and was useful for league of legends and it can be used for anything really.