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(Not untitled anymore) Space Mercenary Game: Movement, continued

In the last article, I described what kind of movement I want to be in the game. Iterating on that, I came up with some of the character stats that are related to this. These probably aren t going to be

A new project: Untitled Space Mercenary Game

Just to get this out of the way: I put my StarCraft-related projects on hold for a bit. SCHNAIL will keep going in its current form for a while, then I ll decide what do with it. In the meantime, my

SCHNAIL dev diary: Moving the AIs to the cloud

Introduction The SCHNAIL client was running locally so far when you launch the client, it always downloads the latest versions of the AIs you can play against. This doesn t take long, but poses multiple problems. During the beta, multiple

The Undermind Episode 45 – An interview with kovarex, the creator of Factorio

This episode is a very special one few people know that kovarex actually one of the founders of the BWAPI project and he agreed to have a talk about it, and of course, Factorio. This is a very

Multi-streaming setup for BSL, and a big box of tentacles

So it all started when my good friend, ZZZero , the organizer of the Bombastic Star League asked me if I can help him out with something akin to squad streaming. (If you are not that familiar with the scene

A small success story, in a form of floofery

Small success stories are the best success stories. I didn t imagine this would be something that gave me this much joy. For the past half year, I have been working on the StarCraft Human N AI League (SCHNAIL) infrastructure, and

The Undermind Episode 44!

My guests this week were WillBot, and Nitekat. We talked about author backgrounds, AI in other games (Nitekat s Diablo 1 API, for example), and of course, SCHNAIL news. Some machine learning musings were also present, and we praised Artosis analytical

The Undermind Episode 43!

Exclusive episode with Dan Gant, the author of PurpleWave (and the PurpleBot family), CherriPi developer, husband and meme war veteran. We talked about SCHNAIL goings-on, the PLUSHIE!!!444, and on a more serious note, mental health and isolation with all that

The Undermind Episode 42!

My guests were Hao Pan (author of Halo), and Dan Gant (author of PurpleWave/other PurpleBots). We talked about how to climb a bot ladder, a lot about SCHNAIL, and of course, the future of SSCAIT. Also, a SCHNAIL PLUSHIE that

StarCraft Human ‘N’ AI League – Ranked play has arrived!

One of the most frequently asked question I get about bots on SCHNAIL, or just in general is how strong are these bots? . I believe you can t really answer that with confidence bot vs. bot rankings are relative to