This is our earlier work. Since May we've made it really easy for the community to build their own agents to play the game: you can now hook up your terminal to get Claude Code to play the game.
(just for clarity: links to past threads in no way imply that the new post isn't welcome! They're just because some readers enjoy poking back through past related discussions as well)
I am really keen on plugging into Age of Empires 2 - although practically I think we need a couple of years of improvements before LLMs would be smart/fast enough to react to the game in realtime. Currently they can't react fast enough - although specially trained networks could be viable.
I'm pretty sure that AI did take at least a few games off of the pros. IIRC the professional team only had one win, the last match.
I do agree that the game was terribly dumbed down to make it tractable. I keep hoping they'll revisit Dota 2 to see if they can find meaningful improvements and tackle the full game.
haha, I am sure somewhere, some PhD student told their supervisor: “No, seriously, I have to play 600 hours of Factorio… for science.”
Are bitters and cliffs disabled?
Biters are disabled, but cliffs are not
Loving the ‘Claude plays’ integration. Great work
Thank you!
Related. Others?
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This is our earlier work. Since May we've made it really easy for the community to build their own agents to play the game: you can now hook up your terminal to get Claude Code to play the game.
That's great!
(just for clarity: links to past threads in no way imply that the new post isn't welcome! They're just because some readers enjoy poking back through past related discussions as well)
Is there going to be some kind of plugin support for other games?
Id love to see Claude playa age of empires.
Claude plays command and conquer.
I already know there a huge AI starcraft 2 scene, but I don't think those are LLM AI.
I am really keen on plugging into Age of Empires 2 - although practically I think we need a couple of years of improvements before LLMs would be smart/fast enough to react to the game in realtime. Currently they can't react fast enough - although specially trained networks could be viable.
Open AI tried to create a Dota 2 AI with reinforcement learning. Some of its best people worked on that.
They had to dumb down the game and keep the bot playing on the same patch, even then it could not win against a proffesional team.
I'm pretty sure that AI did take at least a few games off of the pros. IIRC the professional team only had one win, the last match.
I do agree that the game was terribly dumbed down to make it tractable. I keep hoping they'll revisit Dota 2 to see if they can find meaningful improvements and tackle the full game.
The last time they deployed it... It beat the current world champions
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