Category Archives: Starcraft

SCHNAIL dev diary: Moving the AIs to the cloud

Introduction

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 …

The Undermind Episode 45 – An interview with kovarex, the creator of Factorio

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 …

Interview with Artosis about playing versus Brood War AI

Previously, Artosis has made a great stream playing against some of the best Brood War bots using the SCHNAIL Client. If you haven’t watched that yet, here is the link:

The interview contains spoilers (duh). Originally I wanted to batch …

SCHNAIL Ranked Play: How to evaluate AI strength

The current problem I’m working on with SCHNAIL is one of the most frequently asked question regarding the bots on the platform: How strong are these bots? We have pondered this over multiple episodes of the Undermind. The main …

The Undermind Episode 41!

My guests were McRave, and Dave Churchill. We talked about the SCHNAIL platform, seal clubbing, metagaming, and joked about Canada of course. Also, how to rate bots on a human vs. AI ladder – a favorite topic of mine. We …

The Undermind Episode 39!

This was an exclusive episode with Jasper Geurtz (Yegers). We talked about his journey into the bot development scene, developing a bot in Java, writing a library, and community engagement. Also, some SCHNAIL discussion was taking place.

Links mentioned:

JBWAPI

The Undermind Episode 38!

My guests were Antiga and Freakling, and we continued with some awesome map design discussions. Freakling is a treasure trove of map knowledge, and we learned a lot about the topic.

Links mentioned:

Hao Pan’s paper

Map: Flight path

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