Programming Agents in StarCraft: Brood War

This project is concerned with the implementation of intelligent agents in games. As a use case we consider StarCraft: Brood War^[1] (SCBW), a real-time strategy game by Blizzard. SCBW does not come with an official API for integrating artificial intelligence, but this is made possible using BWAPI^[2], a C++ framework that provides methods for manipulating the entities in SCBW.

We have succesfully implemented a bridge between SCBW and the agent programming languages supporting the environment interface standard (EIS) using JNI-BWAPI^[3], which allows implementation of AI in SCBW using Java.

The implementation is made by Christian Kaysø-Rørdam as his master's thesis project, and integrates the solution with Jason^[4].

Quick Setup

See the GitHub page and the wiki.

References

1. StarCraft: Brood War
2. BWAPI
3. JNI-BWAPI
4. Jason

Source code

The EIS interface for SCBW is open source and available at GitHub:

• Browse source code here.

Publications

• Implementing Intelligent Agents in Games. Christian Kaysø-Rørdam. MSc Thesis. DTU Compute, 2014.