Status

There are currently no active competitions. Please check the updates page for information as I release it.

Registration for the competitions will be sometime in summer, with submission deadlines in early fall.

Overview

Welcome to the home of the annual Starcraft AI competition(s) which are organized by David Churchill at Memorial University of Newfoundland. These competitions are associated with two major conferences on Artificial Intelligence: The AI for Interactive Digital Entertainment conference (AAAI AIIDE) and the Conference on Games (IEEE CoG).

During this event, programs will play Starcraft Broodwar games against each other using BWAPI, a software library that makes it possible to connect programs to the Starcraft: BroodWar game engine.

The purpose of this competition is to foster and evaluate progress of AI research applied to real-time strategy (RTS) games. RTS games pose a much greater challenge for AI research than chess because of hidden information, vast state and action spaces, and the requirement to act quickly. The best human players still have the upper hand in RTS games, but in the years to come this will likely change, thanks to competitions like this one.

For any questions or comments please contact organizer Dave Churchill

Getting Started?

If you are new to StarCraft AI and want to get started on programming your own bot, you can use these resources.

STARTcraft

GitHub Link: https://github.com/davechurchill/STARTcraft

STARTcraft is a project dedicated to getting started with StarCraft AI programming using BWAPI. It contains a tutorial video covering the basics of StarCraft, as well as BWAPI.

UAlbertaBot Source Code

Are you new to the StarCraft AI Competition? Want a fully functional bot to start with and modify? We have provided the UAlbertaBot as an open source project with full documentation which you can use as a good point of entry to the competition. If you do use the code however please uphold the spirit of competition and ensure you make significant modification to the bot before you submit it. We don't want multiple copies of the same bot competing!