Influence maps help your bot score like Messi
Most bots play blind. Influence maps change that—giving your bot the vision to dodge danger, find opportunity, and strike like…
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
I lost to just 450 lines of code
I dropped a tutorial. LaughNgamez picked it up. Then he used it to build a bot… that beat mine with…
What Most Bots Get Wrong in the Early Game
In our recent Debug clinic, yup, same story: Dogtato’s Botato was technically solid, but still got flattened by an early…
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…
Stop drowning in bug fixes
You know that feeling when you boot up a replay after noticing a loss, only to watch your bot flailing…
Your AI’s build orders are more Important than you think
Mar 19th 2025 Why hello Reader, I remember the first time I tried to build an SC2 bot. I figured,…
ChatGPT is playing StarCraft like a strategist
a language env called TextStarCraft2 allows LLMs to play the game with interesting results