Programme your StarCraft AI

Game AI is a very active field of academic research, in which games are used as environments in which to create and refine artificial intelligence methods. One of the games heavily used by the research community is StarCraft. In this presentation, I will explain why carrying out research in Game AI is scientifically relevant, and I will discuss the different international competitions in StarCraft AI, the main bots and the API interfacing the StarCraft game with your own code.