VanRuby: Underground Competitive Coding: StarCraft 2 AI in Ruby!

​Underground Competitive Coding: StarCraft 2 AI in Ruby! with Dyson Returns.

​​About the talk:

​StarCraft® II is the gold standard Real-time Strategy game.
Several years ago (Google) DeepMind Technologies Ltd embarked on the zillion dollar journey to train AI to solve the open-ended problem of playing SC2. Thanks to their work, in partnership with Blizzard Entertainment®, they open sourced the AI training interface... which we abuse to host Bot vs Bot death-matches. Heck, yes! 🤘

​The AI Arena community have a competitive ELO-based ladder and regular tournaments via ProBots.
While primarily a Python/Java/C++/Rust-based community, several other languages are available. The Ruby interface was released this year.

​You don't have to be a game developer or even good at math to make a kick-ass Bot and there's tons of benefits for your personal growth. Come hear all about it and watch some LIVE DEMO's as we script a quick Bot to kick space-alien ass!
How on-the-edge of one's seat can you get?

​​About the Speaker:

​Dyson is a cheerleader of Ruby. You can hear him go rah-rah-Ruby with pom-poms in some corners of the internet.

​Location:

​​Date: March 11th, 2025
Time: 7:00 PM PST to 9:00 PM PST
Location: Northeastern University, 1400 – 410 W Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1Z3, Canada