My guests this week were Hao Pan, Adam Heinermann, and Hannes Bredberg. We were talking about BWAPI 5 (Yes, it’s coming!), the state of Brood War in general, what makes an interesting game. Also, misconceptions about BW AI in general. …
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Creating a Starcraft AI – Part 22: Caveat Implementor
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In the latter part of the last episode, I outlined two problems I want to solve next. The first is to weigh in the direction of my target …
Undermind Episode 16!
My guests this week were Antiga, Micro, and Hannes Bredberg. We discussed BWAPI 4.4, AITT, coding and algorithms, multiple languages. Also gone on a tangent for different games/AIs, and generally goofed around a lot. Also, news about BWAPI 5.
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Creating a Starcraft AI – Part 21: Spiky stars and bad heuristics
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In the last part, I managed to work out some bugs in my in-area jump point pathfinding. Again, let’s climb up a level of my rabbit hole. The end …
The Undermind on Spotify now!
I published the Undermind podcast to Spotify as well, so you can listen to it there. Here is a link also. Happy listening!
…Undermind Episode 15!
My guests this week were Bytekeeper, Impie, and Marian Devecka. We discussed terrain analyzers, BWAPI 4.4, BASIL stats/Improvements, and the state of official support. Happy listening!
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…Creating a Starcraft AI – Part 20: Philosophy and mining equipment
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In the last part I tried to solve a subproblem of a subproblem. BWEM is really not solving the exact problem I’m having (Not talking about midlife crisis, although …
Undermind swag shop!
Hello everyone! With some friends, I made a shop on Etsy, and uploaded some great designs related to the podcast, such as this awesome T-shirt.
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Creating a Starcraft AI – Part 19: Pathfinding resulting in a rabbit hole (where cats are)
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First, a sub-problem from the last part. Given a start point, and a collection of endpoints, I’ll return the first endpoint that the flood fill reaches. This is …
Undermind Episode 14!
My guests this week were Antiga, NiteKat, and Locutus. We talked about Diablo 1 re-release briefly, the AITT tournament, and robot boobs. Happy listening!
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