Meeting Thursday April 18th - StarCraft 2 Bots and AI Code Dojo
Tony Simpson
StarCraft 2 Bots and AI Code Dojo
Thursday April 18, 2019
About the meeting
This month we're meeting at Sky's offices in Leeds Dock. Doors will open at 6:30. The meeting will be in Sky 2. Please note this WYPy is on the 3rd Thursday of the month and not the usaul 2nd Thursday.
Code Dojo: StarCraft 2 Bots and AI
Google's DeepMind has recent demonstrated it can beat pro player at StarCraft 2 (SC2). Neural networks are maybe too complicated to start off with but SC2 has an API that can be used to create bots (programs that play a game). In this event we will explore how SC2 is controlled from Python and try to write bots.
There should be no need to set anything up before hand yourself as the plan is to use a web environment for the programming and simulation. But if you are interested you could have look at the resources linked from https://github.com/Blizzard/s2client-proto and https://github.com/Dentosal/python-sc2.
Please come along and have fun!
Equipment
Bring a laptop if you want to code or you can colaborate with others.
Date and Time
Thursday 18 April, from 6:30 pm. Start around 7:00 pm. Pub afterwards.
Location
You will need to sign in at Sky 2 reception.