Recently, the game has gained interest from academic
research groups as a programmable real-time strategy (RTS)
platform. It is possible to write your own program using opensource
library (BWAPI). Since 2010, there have been several
international AI competitions for the game (IEEE CIG and
AAAI AIIDE). It has been known that the design of AI for the
game is not a trivial problem but requires a lot of modules and
expertise on the game.