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Brood War API – The Comprehensive Guide: Movement modifiers, and Terran units
Index for the Comprehensive Guide posts
Foreword
First, an addition to movement. This will be needed to understand some of the explanations below. (The actual finished book will be better structured, but I’m writing this articles in chronological order …
Undermind Episode 34!
My guests this week were Jasper Geurtz (Yegers), and Dave Churchill. Of course, the main topic was the AIIDE conference, and the StarCraft tournament there. We talked a bit about the “OMG WHY U NO SC 2” issue as well. …
Brood War API – The Comprehensive Guide: Buildings, and placement
Index for the Comprehensive Guide posts
Whee! After some vacation, I’m back to writing this guide! This article is a bit all over the place, but thematically kinda-sorta fits together. Well, you have to get the book, I guess! Let’s …
Undermind Episode 33!
Extra long episode whoo! My guests this time were Johan de Jong (BananaBrain), and Jean Chassoul (sloth), with the late arrival of Dr. Bryan Weber. Our topics were this year’s CoG competition, the new Brood War bug (!), AIIDE, and …
Undermind Episode 32!
My guests this week were Hannes Bredberg, and Antiga (Nathan Roth). We were talking about the recent AI news segment, AIIDE preparation and withdrawals, and plans for a coding/bot development stream. Also, motivating and rewarding developers – a lot of …
Undermind Episode 31!
My guests this week were Martin Rooijackers (LetaBot) , Ankmairdor, and Dennis Waldherr (Bytekeeper). We talked about conferences, AI accessibility for gamers, the First European Brood War AI Meetup 2019 (International, intergalactic!), AIIDE participants, and sneaky bribery.
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…Brood War API – The Comprehensive Guide: Creating buildings, and everything about the creep
So, this part is very much in the middle of the everything. It is a part of a book, and I work on different chapters all the time, so the order these articles are published in is not representative of …
Brood War API – The Comprehensive Guide – Unit movement, and worker behavior
(Whew, this post contains a lot of code. Well, I did say comprehensive!). Special thanks for Ankmairdor for the tremendous amount of help he provided with this part! I quoted him a few times (almost) verbatim, and he deserves a …
Undermind Episode 30!
Wow, 30 episodes! My guests were Hao Pan and Dr. Bryan Weber. We talked about common problems in development, research related to StarCraft, careers as an AI developer, and how to become one, and gossip about Conference of Games (CoG). …