fklemme/kbot

A simple, built-from-scratch Starcraft bot using BWAPI and modern C++.

KBot

A simple, built-from-scratch Starcraft bot using BWAPI and modern C++.

Build status

Branch	Visual Studio	GCC & Clang
master
development

KBot is developed with Visual Studio 2017 on Windows but build services ensure it can be compiled on Linux with GCC and clang as well.

Quick build with Visual Studio

Run build.sh from VS 2017 Command Prompt to build BWAPI and KBot for debug and release.

Concepts and Structure of KBot

Incomplete but gotta start somewhere. ;-)

KBot is built in a hierarchical manner that is reflected in its classes.

Structure

Looking at the following list, the higher level item usually holds the class instances of its subordinated items.

• KBot: Implements the BWAPI interface.
  • Manager: Handles all economic units and tasks.
    • Base: Abstraction of a base. (depot, minerals, workers...)
    • BuildTask: Abstraction of a unit to be created.
  • General: Handles all military units and tasks.
    • Squad: A group of military units sharing a task.
  • Enemy: Informational data base about the enemy.

Ownership

A few lines of unit ownership in KBot.

SSCAIT

KBot is running on SSCAIT. Vote for it to see it play on Stream. :)

kbot's Issues

Clang in Travis CI

Looks like Clang has some trouble with the class template deduction statements in the standard library.

See: https://travis-ci.org/Kruecke/KBot/jobs/249262138

Groups don't like tight spaces

I was watching your bot compete! I liked a lot of the fundamentals and data it presented, but I noticed an issue that I am not sure you are yet aware of.

With sufficiently large squads, your bot will try to move through a narrow space to attack or explore behind the bottleneck. However, it seems the bottleneck starts to separate your squad too much, which the bot appears to not like, and so instead gathers the squad up before trying again.

It may be worth trying to allow your bot to separate squads into smaller squads, and allowing multiple groups to work in tandem (thus a battle group would stay loosely together, while the squads could still stay tightly together). Hope it helps, but I don't know where else to throw this at you. :)

Bot immediately crashes in debug mode.

Maybe a problem with BWEM? Timeout in map initialization or something like that?
For some reason Visual Studio complains about missing debug symbols on crash, so it's hard to investigate.