StarCraft AI Competitions, Bots, and Tournament Manager Software

Real-time strategy games have become an increasingly popular test bed for modern artificial intelligence (AI) techniques. With this rise in popularity has come the creation of several annual competitions, in which AI agents (bots) play the full game of StarCraft: Broodwar by Blizzard Entertainment....

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Published inIEEE transactions on games Vol. 11; no. 3; pp. 227 - 237
Main Authors Certicky, Michal, Churchill, David, Kim, Kyung-Joong, Certicky, Martin, Kelly, Richard
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Piscataway IEEE 01.09.2019
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Agents (artificial intelligence)
Artificial intelligence
Bot (Internet)
Competition
computational intelligence
computer science education
education
educational programs
Entertainment
Entertainment industry
Game theory
Games
learning
machine learning
Open source software
Real-time systems
Software
Software agents
Source code
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Summary:Real-time strategy games have become an increasingly popular test bed for modern artificial intelligence (AI) techniques. With this rise in popularity has come the creation of several annual competitions, in which AI agents (bots) play the full game of StarCraft: Broodwar by Blizzard Entertainment. The three major annual StarCraft AI Competitions are the Student StarCraft AI Tournament, the Computational Intelligence in Games competition, and the Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment competition. In this paper, we will give an overview of the current state of these competitions, describe the bots that compete in them, and describe the underlying open-source Tournament Manager software that runs them.
ISSN:2475-1502
2475-1510
DOI:10.1109/TG.2018.2883499