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The timing of this project is a bit unfortunate since Blizzard and DeepMind announced a month ago that they would be releasing an API to use StarCraft 2 for AI research:

https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-and-blizzard-release-star...

Plus: StarCraft 2 has a free edition (not enough people know this), so you will most likely be able to use SC2 for research without needing to buy a licence.

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One is for StarCraft/Brood War, the other is for StarCraft 2. Why not take the opportunity and experiment with both?

Regardless of flamewars between fans of the older versio nof the game, I don't think there's any real incentive to start research using the old StarCraft Brood War API when a new API is going to be released for StarCraft 2 (which has a bigger community, large number of viewers... except maybe in South Korea)

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