The Current State of StarCraft AI Competitions and Bots

Authors

  • Michal Čertický Czech Technical University in Prague
  • David Churchill Memorial University of Newfoundland

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aiide.v13i2.12961

Keywords:

StarCraft, Competition, RTS, Artificial Intelligence, Bot, SSCAIT, AIIDE, CIG

Abstract

Real-Time Strategy (RTS) games have become an increasingly popular test-bed for modern artificial intelligence 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 (SSCAIT), the Computational Intelligence in Games (CIG) competition, and the Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE) competition. In this paper we will give an overview of the current state of these competitions, and the bots that compete in them.

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Published

2017-10-05

How to Cite

Čertický, M., & Churchill, D. (2017). The Current State of StarCraft AI Competitions and Bots. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 13(2), 2-7. https://doi.org/10.1609/aiide.v13i2.12961

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 2 (2017): The Workshops of the Thirteenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment

Section

Artificial Intelligence for Strategy Games