Another engine is microRTS, a Java RTS engine which plays a simplified grid-based RTS game and is designed specifically for testing AI techniques.įor an excellent up to date overview on the state of the art in StarCraft AI techniques and bot artchitecture descriptions, I highly recommend reading the following publications:ĭ. One such engine is ORTS - a free software RTS game engine which ran several competitions until 2010 when BWAPI was released and the first AIIDE Starcraft AI Competition was held. There are other RTS game engines available for competitions as well. Since the release of the StarCraft 2 AI API, we have been actively working with Blizzard to get the required functionality that would allow for the AIIDE competition to support StarCraft 2, but is not quite there yet.
BWAPI was created by reverse engineering BroodWar and relies on reading and writing to the program memory space of BroodWar in order to read data and issue commands to the game. This competition relies completely on BWAPI as a programming interface to BroodWar.
This is the question we always get asked when we tell people we are doing a Starcraft: BroodWar AI competition. If you would like to read a report of the 2015 AIIDE Starcraft AI Competition, you can do so here. Each competition will be discussed in chronological order in which it occurred, along with complete competition results and links to download bot source code and reply files for the AIIDE and CIG competitions. Please note that since I have been the organizer of the AIIDE competitions since 2011, I will naturally have more information written here about those particular competitions. We will now give a detailed history of each major Starcraft AI Competition, as well as the progression of UAlbertaBot, our entry into these competitions. As the feature set and popularity of BWAPI grew and the first Starcraft AI agents started to appear, it was finally possible to have a proper AI competition in Starcraft. Starcraft AI agents are controlled using the Brood War Application Programming Interface (BWAPI), which was first developed in 2009 as a way for programmers to interact with and control the full game of Starcraft: Broodwar using C++. Inspired by earlier RTS game competitions such as the Open RTS (ORTS) Competition, these Starcraft AI competitions have become the defining place to showcase state of the art artificial intelligence agents for real-time strategy games.
Entrants to these competitions submit Starcraft AI bots which do battle in the retail version of Starcraft: Broodwar. Since the first Starcraft AI Competition in 2010, the field of Real-Time Strategy Game AI has continued to rise in popularity every year. Share This Page Follow By: David Churchill This article was last update early 2016.
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