they think it’s just a game bot
Why hello Reader, "No one takes bot making seriously." Was the response I got on Discord from a member telling…
Three ways to win before you fight
your bot's about to fight. here's how to know if it should
My solution to Zerg rushes wasn’t more code. It was data
Took 150 games and one scikit-learn import to fix what weeks of rules couldn't
You don’t need AlphaStar money to use ML in SC2
Machine Learning with SC2 bots is actually doable, if you do it right.
Grok is just terrible at Chess
Flashy plays look good, but ladders are won on fewer mistakes. o3 vs grok showed why
Bots don’t lie – unless you teach them regret
K-2SO crushes in combat but folds at the table. Why? AI learns to bluff through regret—and your bot can too
Pinch of Machine Learning For Your Bot
During last year’s Roundtable, Timo mentioned that the key to making Reinforcement Learning work in SC2 was breaking the problem…
ChatGPT is playing StarCraft like a strategist
a language env called TextStarCraft2 allows LLMs to play the game with interesting results