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The StarCraft BroodWar Resource for custom AIs

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List of bots (incomplete)

	Bot	Author	Type	Download	Source code	Description
	Krasi0bot	Krasimir Krastev	C++, .dll file	DLL	—	Very well balanced
	UAlbertaBot	David Churchill	C++, .dll file	DLL	GitHub	Zealot rush
	AIUR	Florian Richoux	C++, .dll file	DLL	GitHub	Random strategies
	Nova	Alberto Uriarte	C++, .dll file	DLL	ZIP
	XIMP	Tomas Vajda	C++, .dll file	DLL	—	Cannons & Carriers
	ICEbot	ICElab	C++, .dll file	DLL	—	Offensive Terran
	BTHAI	Johan Hagelback	C++, .dll file	DLL	Google Code	Single base Terran
	WryxoBot	Martin Strapko	Java, .jar file	JAR	—	Mass Dragons
	Yarmouk	I-Strategizer Research Group	C++, .dll proxy	—	GitHub	Case-Based Planning
	OpprimoBot	Johan Hagelbäck	C++, .dll dll	DLL	GitHub	Can play all three races
	EMAPF	Thomas Willer Sandberg	C++	—	Google Code
	ITUBot	Volkan Ilbeyli	C++, .dll dll	—	GitHub	Able to do walling
	SPAR	PLANIART lab	C++, .dll dll	DLL	ZIP
	StarPlanner	Panagiotis Peikidis	Java, .jar file	—	GitHub	Uses GOAP
	Odin	Team of 5 persons	C++, .dll file	—	GitHub
	StarBot	Kyle Bignell	C++, .dll file	—	Bitbucket
	GarmBot	Aurélien Lermant	C++, .dll file	—	—	Hydra/ling/queen
	Killerbot	Marian Devecka	C++, .dll file	—	—	Muta or lurker
	LetaBot	Martin Rooijackers	C++, .dll file	—	—	Various rushes
	Overmind	Berkley team	Java	—	—	Mutalisk play
	Skynet	Andrew Smith	C++, .dll file	—	—	Zealot, later all tech
	Tyr	Simon Prins	C++, .dll file	—	—	Marine, tank, bc
	WOPR	Soeren Klett	C++, .dll file	—	—	1 base zealot
	tscmoo	unknown	.exe file	—	GitHub	z and t
	Lightning	Wesley Heung	Java	—	GitHub
	FreScBot	Florent D'Halluin, Valentin Leon-Bonnet	C++, .dll file	DLL	Bitbucket	Only micro, can play 3 races

Tools

• BWAPI is a free and open source C++ framework that is used to interact with the popular Real Time Strategy (RTS) game Starcraft: Broodwar.
• BWTA2 is a terrain analyzer library for BWAPI.
• BWMirror is a Java wrapper for BWAPI.
• JNIBWAPI is another Java interface for BWAPI.
• StarCraft AI Tournament Manager.
• SSCAIT Tournament Watcher.
• SparCraft is an open source StarCraft combat simulation package for Windows and Linux.
• BWSAL is a project that aims to develop several add-ons for BWAPI.
• Korhal is a Brood War AI written in Clojure on top of a custom fork of JNIBWAPI.
• BWDI. Another StarCraft Broodwar interface. Unfinished but with interesting ideas.
• Migration scripts for converting BWAPI 3 source to BWAPI 4 source
• Replay watching enhancement. Source code.

Tutorials

• BWAPI + BWMirror Tutorial (Java)
• BWAPI Tutorial (C++)
• Getting Started with BWTA2
• Improving mineral gathering rate in Brood War
• StarCraft NeuroEvolution Unit AI
• Map analysis

• For development
  • Visual Studio VC++ 2013 Express is enough.
  • If you want to compile old bots (VS2008 projects) with VS2013. Install the Windows SDK 7.1. Remember you should uninstall first any version of Visual C++ 2010 redistributable, otherwise Windows SDK setup will fail.
• For running BWAPI Bots on non-development machines (e.g Tournaments clients) you only need the VC 2013 Redistributable Package

Tournaments

Various venues host remote competitive AI competitions that allow developers from around the world to participate. These venues are often held annually and will sometimes offer prizes to the winners. It is also a great way to test your bot's capabilities.

• SSCAIT: Student StarCraft AI Tournament (games played and streamed all the time, finals take place in Winter)
• AIIDE: AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (part of the program of annual research conference, takes place in Summer)
• CIG: IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (part of the program of annual research conference, takes place in Summer)
• BWAPI Bots Ladder (games played all the time)

Temporal links

Some unsorted references before organize everything

• StarCraft: Brood War Attack Animation Frame Data
• Exactly how do the custom AI scripts work?
• Brood War AI Project v3.1
• Basics of UMS Mapping
• Research Papers
• A Treatise on the Economy of SCII
• Guide Map Making
• StarCraft Brood War Data Mining
• Learning using SARSA
• BroodWar unit images as transparent PNGs
• Funny videos
  • Retarded Units of Starcraft BW II
  • Lego StarCraft
  • StarCrafts

Map Editing

• CHK Format
• Unused Unprotector 2 StarCraft Tool and the source code.
• Scmdraft map editor. Under downloads, you will obtain version 0.8.0, but this is not the latest version. Instead, you will want to look at the news page and get ScmDraft 2 (0.8.1), located in the temp folder.
• Unfortunately, the author did not update the version number in the build, so it incorrectly says 0.8.0, making things quite confusing. You will need this if you want to be able to create Extended Unit Death (EUD) triggers (the Memory condition will be enabled when creating a trigger).
• The downside of using EUDs is that the memory offsets change with every version of StarCraft; I doubt that will be a problem these days though.
• EUD Database, with EUDTrig to find unit offsets. With EUDTrig, you need to copy comctl32.ocx (alternate location) into the current directory. You need ArtMoney for monitoring the process and finding the hex values in the first place. Then, see this exported wiki article.
• Staredit Network's Wiki, and the StarEdit forums. Be sure to change the theme after login, as I find the default one annoying.
• You have 256 switches that you can use to set/reset game state. Death counters are an alternative, and they trigger at a rate of 1 death count = 84 milliseconds.
• Only Players 1 through 8 can own triggers. Neutral (Player 12) cannot, and such triggers will be ignored.
• How to make 4 players share minerals + gas. Lousy resource, but hard to find anything on this.
• It looks like a lot of the good EUD's are patched. EUDEnable. This post clears up exactly what is being read (4 bytes at a time). Many of the tutorials simply assume that all other bytes are 0, which is often incorrect.
• Using Death Count Timers instead of waiting.
• How damage works, such as for burning buildings.
• And overview of working with MPQ archives. Use MPQDraft to patch MPQ files. For reading and editing the contents, use MPQ Editor.
• StarEdit FAQ. StarCraft Mapmaker's Guide.
• StarCraft unit sizes. You can use DatEdit (StarEdit tab) to get the Placement box in pixels. The pixels for a Terran Dropship, for example, are height 37 and width 49. Since scmdraft is zero indexed, be sure to enter your locations for bottom and right as one less than what it actually is. In this example, bottom would be 36 and right would be 48.
• Frequently Asked Questions