This is an index for the Comprehensive Guide posts. These are in publishing order, not following the pattern of the final book. Usually these are comprehensive units of information by themselves.
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Brood War API – The Comprehensive Guide – Distances, high ground, and unit behavior
Index for the Comprehensive Guide posts
First, I’d like to make a small note. My sections about the inner workings of StarCraft are meant to be comprehensive, but I will inevitably leave things out. There are aspects of the game, …
Brood War API – The Comprehensive Guide (of time and space)
Index for the Comprehensive Guide posts
As I mentioned before, I plan to write a complete goddamn book about BWAPI. I plan to publish the drafts of the chapters from that book. The blog will not contain everything from the …
Brood War API: The comprehensive guide
Sounds good for a book title, right?
With my bot writing series, one of the goals was exploring the Brood War API, and show it’s inner workings through developing a real, working AI. I had to realize that this is …
Undermind Episode 29!
In this very special summer holiday episode, I have a feature-length exclusive episode with Dave Churchill. We talked about BWAPI5 news – there are quite a few, bot development and academic research, Dave’s new ladder, and stuff around AIIDE.
Also, …
Undermind Episode 28!
Creating a Starcraft AI – Part 32: Test with the best
(This is an ongoing series, and I reference previous episodes. If you’re new, I suggest you start at the first post.)
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Recently I’ve been occupied with the SCHNAIL project (Starcraft Human …
Crawling SCHNAIL: Steady progress – with pictures!
The SCHNAIL project have gathered a large amount of interest, which I’m very grateful for. I decided to post frequent, if small updates regarding it. Enjoy the news!
First of all: We have the finalized logo, and a mascot too. …
Undermind Episode 27!
An announcement first: For the near future, I’ll switch recording the Undermind every 2 weeks – I feel that is a better schedule for this scene at the moment. I will reconsider my stance on this when the summer ends. …
SCHNAIL teaser video
Just a quick video to get you a taste what is coming. The Starcraft Human ‘N’ AI League client is alive, and… well, crawling, I guess.
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