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Are any of the recent open source games automatable / easy to script bots for?

I've been looking to get into game bot development and I'm very curious what's the easiest way for me to automate an RTS, ideally am open source one -- but the StarCratt 1 OpenBW + SSCAIT project would be fine as well.

Does anybody have experience?

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I really recommend getting into StarCraft 1 BroodWar AI development using BWAPI. OpenBW is open source and there's a thriving and helpful community around bot development. A lot of tournaments / competitions and video casts too. You won't regret it. Search for the SSCAIT Discord link. (I am on mobile and don't have it handy).

We've had this chat before. :D (zdrasti)

My main interest is: how automatable the whole thing is? Looking at the SSCAIT Twitch stream, it regularly hangs and sits there for hours before somebody manually unlocks it (I presume).

Regardless of the game, I'd simply want an ecosystem where you can run your own SSCAIT on your own machine.

Also, can OpenBW be run on Linux?

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