StarCraft II is a Real Strategy Game developed by Blizzard and it is a challenge as it shows some properties interesting from the machine learning perspective : real time, partial observability and vast action and observation space . …

This blogpost aims to present Mempathy video game as a Safety and Alignment opportunity and the results and lessons learnt in implementing controlled language generation with Plug and Play Models (PPLM) for NPC design. The results show that safe and aligned conversation in narrative games goes beyond controlling language models…

Mempathy is a video game narrative experience that transforms the relationship with anxiety. The video game’s goal is to offer a reflective experience, and the winning state is defined by a feeling of advancement and companionship towards anxiety. …

During these days the Dream Arcade Jam has been part of itch.io platform and some were able to take part on it . Lots of fun and lessons learnt from this experience . Here comes some lessons learnt about Game design and Animation from this experience! Idea : An arcade about love ? Arcade…

Communication is one of the components of MARL and an active area of research itself, as it might influence the final performance of agents, and it affects coordination or negotiation directly. …

StarCraft II has been present as a machine learning environment for research since BloodWar. A couple of years ago, DeepMind released pysc2, a research environment for StarCraft II and later in 2019, Whiteson Oxford Research Lab open-sourced SMAC, a cooperative multiagent environment based on pysc2 with a cooperative setup, meaning…

Today we will dig into a paper ripped of A Unified Game-Theoretic Approach to Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning , one of the core ideas that has been used for the development of #AlphaStar . There are several concepts in AlphaStar that won´t be treated here . …

In this article we will dive into a Tencent Paper + University of Rochester + Northwestern University paper and a new mini-game developed by myself ( Blue Moon) that proposes a learning environment for Tech Tree development . A significant part of TSTARTBOTS paper — Tencent AI Lab + University…

Lab : Customize the agent “Hierach?” Talandar Protoss selected order unit quote Try your own mini-game You can try your own mini-game by changing the following steps in your pySC2 folder Create your mini-game. You can visit this tutorial that changes DefeatRoaches into DefeatWhatever melee Add your mini-game to the array in pysc2\maps\mini_games.py Add the mini-game name into the…