[game_edu] Open source RTS engine recommendations?

[Michael Mateas]

The Brood War API for Starcraft lets you hook external AIs up to 
Starcraft. AIIDE is having a Starcraft AI competition this year: 
http://eis.ucsc.edu/StarCraftAICompetition. Yes, it does require the use 
of a non-free game, but Starcraft is cheap, and has the advantage of 
having a large base of expert players to compare your AI performance 
against, as well as having large numbers of playtraces that can be 
datamined if you want to employ machine learning/case-based reasoning 
techniques.

-Michael

On 9/26/2010 12:17 PM, pawlicki at cs.rochester.edu wrote:

>

> Does anyone have recommendations of open source RTS

> development platform?

>

> The CSC department would like to identify an open source RTS engine.

> We want to use it as research tool on a multi-year project and

> also as a tool to teach in our Artificial Intelligence course.

>

> We could use some help figuring out which platform would be best.

>

> Currently, we are looking at

>

> the Spring engine

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_project

> or warzone

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warzone_2100

>

> but if some of you have knowledge or experience with

> other platforms, then we would certainly appreciate the

> input.

>

> In general, our requirements are :

>

>   - free: can't require commercial game even for graphic/sound resources

>   - cross-platform (linux&  mac first, windows is less of a priority)

>   - hackability: have to be able to plug in external AI (not necessarily

> sockets, but something better than pure hacking)

>   - customizability: have to be able to build new environments

>

> Thanks,

>

> Ted Pawlicki, PhD.

> Undergraduate Program Director

> Department of Computer Science

> University of Rochester,

> pawlicki at cs.rochester.edu

>

>

>

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