AI for StarCraft: Brood War
Hugh is the little brother of Locutus. Hugh was created for the AI TinyCraft Tournament, so called as participating bots consist of a single C++ header file not exceeding 3000 bytes.
As Hugh includes some hard-coded position information, it can only play the maps in the AITT map pool.
Hugh.h is the file with comments and line breaks that I used while developing, and Hugh.min.h is the version submitted for the tournament that has comments and unnecessary whitespace removed.
- Download BWAPI 4.2.0
- Rename Hugh.h to ExampleAIModule.h and overwrite the ExampleAIModule.h in the BWAPI example projects
- Remove ExampleAIModule.cpp from the BWAPI example projects
- Build the BWAPI example projects
Hugh will now be built to ExampleAIModule.dll.
I was curious about how much each feature "cost" in terms of file size, so I did a byte count.
| Feature | Size |
|---|---|
| Forge expand build: hard-coded building locations and the code needed to decode them | 508 |
| Target queue | 323 |
| Mining (keeping track of resources, worker micro, mineral locking, etc.) | 313 |
| Basic build logic (build pylons and gateways appropriately, build worker micro, etc.) | 305 |
| Forge expand build: the build order and logic needed to follow it | 256 |
| Goon-specific micro (not cancelling attacks, kiting) | 174 |
| Read/write to learning file | 159 |
| Basic micro (attack move) | 141 |
| Worker defense | 124 |
| Training units | 103 |
| Uncategorized | 594 |