(see the end of this post for remarks I’ve gotten about the vbox image)

So, the next Google AI Challenge seems to be almost ready to get going, albeit six months later than I expected.

As blogged about earlier this year I have been worked on the Common Lisp starter bot for the challenge, an alternative starter bot with a proxybot, some Youtube videos and now a Virtualbox image with an Emacs+Slime environment ready to go.

I have made two screencasts showing the setup and usage of the proxy bot for the upcoming Google AI Challenge. This was at the request of McLeopold..

For the Planet Wars challenge I’ve tried to explain the use case for a proxy bot on the forums. Please read that post if you have no idea what the proxy bot does, although I will try to sum it up now: the proxy bot allows one to develop your actual bot in the usual ‘Lispy’ way[1] while the game engine runs and kills the proxy bot.

Sorry for the CamelCase but I didn’t come up with the names :-)

For those bitten by the game AI bug since the Google AI Challenge (all eleven of us) I’ve started working on a Common Lisp (CL) client for the StarCraft ProxyBot with the StarCraft AI competition in mind: http://github.com/aerique/cl-starcraft-proxybot.