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Hey, I have a project that might be of interest to you. It is called the StarCraft Human 'N' AI League, and it is a client that lets you play against custom AI written for the game. It is single player, and provides a challenge without the frustration of griefing idiots on the ladder. Here you can check it out(it's free) https://schnail.com/#/home


Hi, sorry for the late answer.

AIs currently are built to fight 1v1 matches against each other, so probably not.

I don't know much about SC2, I work on BW.


Hello everyone,

Thanks for featuring this.

I'm the author of the article - feel free to ask any questions about it, or the BW AI scene in general.


Hi, thanks for writing this! I have a couple of question about the scene: where does the broodwar AI community usually communicates (forums, IRC, mailing lists.. .), and do they interact with other related communities (other games, other AI projects, academic research, etc)? I'm thinking common frameworks, sharing of libraries, strategies, knowledge, etc


The main discussion forum is Discord: https://discord.gg/HpnNmsG

Announcements are usually on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/bwapi

Another popular StarCraft-related blog is: http://satirist.org/ai/starcraft/blog/

There's a 24/7 stream of AI games at: https://twitch.tv/sscait (perfect background noise for coding)

And I have to mention the research done by my team on StarCraft at: https://torchcraft.github.io/TorchCraftAI/


Very useful, thank you! So your team is the CherryPi team from Facebook AI Research if I understand well?


I don't have a question. I just want to say your blog posts are really good! They are informative, interesting and really funny at the same time. Thanks for writing them :-)


Thank you, happy reading!


No questions either, good blog posts! Is there a page listing those of this particular series in order?



Thank you very much! Not yet, but you're right, I should have one!


And those who would like to follow developing a bot from scratch, I'd like to plug in here my blog: www.makingcomputerdothings.com There, I also host a podcast about SC AI development, which can be interesting for everyone. The podcast is uploaded to youtube as well: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHPl6OFov2v8SK14oQUHY2w


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