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Real-time strategy (RTS) games is a subgenre of strategy games where players need to build an economy (gathering resources and building a base) and military power (training units and researching technologies) in order to defeat their opponents (destroying their army and base). Artificial intelligence (AI) problems related to RTS games deal with the behavior of an artificial player. Since 2010, many international competitions have been organized to match AIs, or bots, playing to the RTS game StarCraft. This entry presents a review of all major international competitions from 2010 until 2015 and details some competing StarCraft bots.
State-of-the-Art Bots for StarCraft
Thanks to the recent organization of international game AI competitions focused around the popular StarCraft game, several groups have been working on integrating many of the techniques developed for RTS...
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Churchill, D. et al. (2016). StarCraft Bots and Competitions. In: Lee, N. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08234-9_18-1
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