Multi-platform Version of StarCraft: Brood War in a Docker Container: Technical Report
This provides a practical tool for AI researchers working on StarCraft bots, but it is incremental as it repackages existing tools into a containerized format.
The authors tackled the challenge of deploying StarCraft: Brood War for AI research across multiple platforms by creating a Docker container with pre-installed development tools, resulting in a convenient solution for running AI bots on various hosts despite limited OS support.
We present a dockerized version of a real-time strategy game StarCraft: Brood War, commonly used as a domain for AI research, with a pre-installed collection of AI developement tools supporting all the major types of StarCraft bots. This provides a convenient way to deploy StarCraft AIs on numerous hosts at once and across multiple platforms despite limited OS support of StarCraft. In this technical report, we describe the design of our Docker images and present a few use cases.