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Kevin Dill Talk at UCSC

By Ben Weber | Published: March 12, 2010

“The Art of Game AI: Sculpting Behavior with Data, Formulas, and Finesse” Kevin Dill, Lockheed Martin Date: Monday, March 15 Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm Place: E2-180 Simularium Hosted By: Michael Mateas Abstract This lecture will explore the challenges that are involved in constructing believable AI behavior, the mindset that one must adopt to accurately model these behaviors, […]

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CFP: Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE) 2010

By Ben Weber | Published: March 6, 2010

AIIDE 2010 has posted a call for papers, just in time to advertise the conference at GDC. The deadline for papers and the industry track is May 16, 2010. This year AIIDE will also be hosting a StarCraft AI competition!

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StarCraft AI at Super Happy Dev House

By Ben Weber | Published: January 24, 2010

I attended Super Happy Dev House 36 and presented a lightening talk about the upcoming AIIDE 2010 StarCraft AI Competition. The competition is interesting to the hacker community at Super Happy Dev House, because the Broodwar API enabling the competition is a reverse engineering project providing direct access to game state and units in StarCraft. […]

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AIIDE 2010 StarCraft AI Competition

By Ben Weber | Published: November 11, 2009

The 2010 conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE 2010) will be hosting a StarCraft AI competition as part of the conference program. This competition enables academic researchers to evaluate their AI systems in a robust commercial RTS environment. The competition will be held in the weeks leading up to the conference. The final matches will be held live at the conference with commentary. Exhibition matches will also be held between skilled human players and the top performing bots.

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Using StarCraft as a Game AI Testbed

By Ben Weber | Published: October 4, 2009

I’ve been interested in developing AI for StarCraft for several years now. I recently came across the Broodwar API project, which provides hooks into StarCraft. It enables developers to query game state as well as issue orders to units. The Broodwar API makes it possible to write custom AI bots for StarCraft.

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