In the last article, I described what kind of movement I want to be in the game. Iterating on that, I came up with some of the character stats that are related to this. These probably aren’t going to be …
Just to get this out of the way: I put my StarCraft-related projects on hold for a bit. SCHNAIL will keep going in its current form for a while, then I’ll decide what do with it. In the meantime, my …
The SCHNAIL client was running locally so far – when you launch the client, it always downloads the latest versions of the AIs you can play against. This doesn’t take long, but poses multiple problems. During the beta, multiple …
This episode is a very special one – few people know that kovarex actually one of the founders of the BWAPI project – and he agreed to have a talk about it, and of course, Factorio. This is a very …
So it all started when my good friend, ZZZero, the organizer of the Bombastic Star League asked me if I can help him out with something akin to squad streaming.
(If you are not that familiar with the scene …
Small success stories are the best success stories.
I didn’t imagine this would be something that gave me this much joy. For the past half year, I have been working on the StarCraft Human ‘N’ AI League (SCHNAIL) infrastructure, and …
My guests this week were WillBot, and Nitekat. We talked about author backgrounds, AI in other games (Nitekat’s Diablo 1 API, for example), and of course, SCHNAIL news. Some machine learning musings were also present, and we praised Artosis’ analytical …
Exclusive episode with Dan Gant, the author of PurpleWave (and the PurpleBot family), CherriPi developer, husband and meme war veteran. We talked about SCHNAIL goings-on, the PLUSHIE!!!444, and on a more serious note, mental health and isolation with all that …
My guests were Hao Pan (author of Halo), and Dan Gant (author of PurpleWave/other PurpleBots). We talked about how to climb a bot ladder, a lot about SCHNAIL, and of course, the future of SSCAIT. Also, a SCHNAIL PLUSHIE that …
One of the most frequently asked question I get about bots on SCHNAIL, or just in general is “how strong are these bots?”. I believe you can’t really answer that with confidence – bot vs. bot rankings are relative to …