{"id":290,"date":"2009-11-13T15:55:26","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T21:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/?p=290"},"modified":"2010-02-23T22:22:24","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T04:22:24","slug":"starcraft-ai-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/2009\/11\/starcraft-ai-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"StarCraft AI Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eis.ucsc.edu\/StarCraftAICompetition\">StarCraft AI Competition<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p>The <a title=\"http:\/\/eis.ucsc.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/eis.ucsc.edu\/\">Expressive Intelligence Studio<\/a> at UC Santa Cruz will be hosting a StarCraft competition:<\/p>\n<p>This competition enables academic researchers to evaluate their AI systems in a robust commercial RTS environment. The final matches will be held live with commentary. Exhibition matches will also be held between skilled human players and the top performing bots.<\/p>\n<h2><a name=\"GettingStarted\"><\/a>Getting Started<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p>The competition will use StarCraft Brood War 1.16.1. Get it  <a title=\"http:\/\/us.blizzard.com\/store\/details.xml?id=110000124\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/us.blizzard.com\/store\/details.xml?id=110000124\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Bots for StarCraft can be developed using the <a title=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/bwapi\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/bwapi\">Broodwar API<\/a>, which provides hooks into StarCraft and enables the development of custom AI for StarCraft. A C++ interface enables developers to query the current state of the game and issue orders to units.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>Instructions for setting up the environment are available <a href=\"http:\/\/eis.ucsc.edu\/StarCraftBWAPI\"><span>here<\/span><\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>An introduction to the Broodwar API is available <a href=\"http:\/\/eis.ucsc.edu\/StarCraftUsingBWAPI\"><span>here<\/span><\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>Instructions for building a bot that communicates with a remote process are available <a href=\"http:\/\/eis.ucsc.edu\/StarCraftRemote\"><span>here<\/span><\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>There is also a <a href=\"http:\/\/eis.ucsc.edu\/StarCraftFAQ\"><span>FAQ<\/span><\/a> listing common issues.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Tournament rules are available <a title=\"starcraft_rules\" href=\"http:\/\/eis.ucsc.edu\/StarCraftRules\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Full article: <a href=\"http:\/\/eis.ucsc.edu\/StarCraftAICompetition\">StarCraft AI Competition<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/games.slashdot.org\/story\/09\/11\/12\/1729217\/StarCraft-AI-Competition-Announced\">SlashDot<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>StarCraft AI Competition The Expressive Intelligence Studio at UC Santa Cruz will be hosting a StarCraft competition: This competition enables academic researchers to evaluate their AI systems in a robust commercial RTS environment. The final matches will be held live with commentary. Exhibition matches will also be held between skilled human players and the top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,61,64],"tags":[279],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-competitions","category-starcraft","tag-competitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}