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DeepMind and Blizzard to release StarCraft II as an AI research environment

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We’ve worked closely with the StarCraft II team to develop an API that supports something similar to previous bots written with a “scripted” interface, allowing programmatic control of individual units and access to the full game state (with some new options as well).  Ultimately agents will play directly from pixels, so to get us there, we’ve developed a new image-based interface that outputs a simplified low resolution RGB image data for map & minimap, and the option to break out features into separate “layers”, like terrain heightfield, unit type, unit health etc. Below is an example of what the feature layer API will look like.

Source: https://deepmind.com/blog/announcements/deepmind-and-blizzard-release-starcraft-ii-ai-research-environment

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