BWAPI Blog

The Brood War Application Programming Interface (BWAPI) is a free and open source C++ framework for creating AI modules for Starcraft: Broodwar. Using BWAPI, programmers can retrieve information on players and individual units in Starcraft as well as issue a wide variety of commands to units, opening the doors for custom AIs with new micro and macro algorithms.

With BWAPI you can:

• Write competitive AIs for Starcraft: Broodwar by controlling individual units.
• Read all relevant aspects of the game state.
• Analyze replays frame-by-frame, and extract trends, build orders, and common strategies.
• Get comprehensive information on the unit types, upgrades, technologies, weapons, and more.
• Study and research real-time AI algorithms in a robust commercial RTS environment.

Links:

• The BWAPI web site
• BWAPI Documentation
• BWAPI Google Group
• BWAPI Forum
• IRC Channel: QuakeNet #BWAPI