I found some more tutorials with cheat engine, which should give anyone a better understanding of what's going on.
I think this guy is specifically targeting flash games, but should be helpful in learning how to manipulate cheat engine to access memory for stored variables.
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This guy goes into a wide array of features ( 9 Step Tutorial ) supported by Cheat Engine. Getting into Multi-Level Pointers, Code Injection. The sound is a little crackly, but still coherent.
http://www.youtube.com/user/mystykMeFi/
Hope this helps anyone looking to create their own bot.
On a side note, does this forum have a "Bot Creators" generic forum, that's not specifically tied to a game? Might be handy.
Cheers,
Joseph