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FooBarWidget on Nov 13, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Starcraft AI competition

How is this possible? Isn't Starcraft closed source? Did they hack the binaries to allow exposing an API or something? If so isn't this project illegal? Or did Starcraft provide a C++ API all along?

haasted on Nov 13, 2009 [–]

The "Getting started" section of the page explains this.

Apparently it is possible to script Starcraft using a C++ API.

http://eis.ucsc.edu/StarCraftAICompetition#GettingStarted

FooBarWidget on Nov 13, 2009 | [–]

Yeah but is this C++ API official or is it hacked into the binary by third parties?

jncraton on Nov 13, 2009 | | [–]

The API is third party. I'm pretty sure they are using this:

http://www.broodwarai.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=322 http://code.google.com/p/bwapi/

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