Tag Archives: brood war

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 …

SCHNAIL dev diary: AI testing, and custom hotkeys

I decided to title these articles a bit differently. So far I’ve intervowen development content, and actual news/updates about SCHNAIL – the time has come to differentiate these kind of contents.

There has been two major features that I’ve been …

SCHNAIL (Starcraft Human ‘N’ AI League) development roadmap & extra Patreon rewards!

Going forward with the StarCraft Human ‘N’ AI League, I decided it’s time to involve the public a little more. Oftentimes a software project can appear secretive from the outside – more often than not, we just work on mundane …