Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

It's blocking creeps, obviously!

Which, in turn, requires you to understand the concept of what a creep is, and how blocking them contributes to creep equilibrium (and what creep equilibrium is) and how the various states of equilibrium contribute to gameplay, and how/why/when you want to manipulate that (for example, you want to block creeps at some early points in the game so your opponent has to attack uphill, but between those particular points in time you want to push your creeps in deeper to ensure you have time to complete other objectives). :)

Obviously, you don't need to know anything above, but once you start diving into the depth of things OpenAI (and human players) deal with every game, it gets pretty insane that a bot can learn at such a high level so quickly.




Consider applying for YC's Spring batch! Applications are open till Feb 11.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: