Published in AdequateSource·Sep 8, 2022Most Popular Board Games— 2022KallaX, an app for board game enthusiast, recently released a list of the top 100 games most frequently found in collections on their platform. The app is primarily used by seasoned board game collectors (the average user has a collection of 91 board games) — so this sneak peak into…Board Games3 min readBoard Games3 min read
Published in AdequateSource·Nov 16, 2021𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐩 𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐓𝐒 ⚔️Real-time strategy games often feature hundreds of units. A common number seems to be 100–200 per player (StarCraft, Age of Empires, Men of War, Company of Heroes) for up to 8 players — while some take it to the extremes. American Conquest allows up to 16.000 …Games8 min readGames8 min read
Published in Level Up Coding·Jun 29, 2021Install pg_cron on Amazon RDSI recently upgraded our analytics database at The Org to PostgreSQL 13.1 in order to support periodically refreshing materialized views using pg_cron to run the jobs directly in the database. Our previous setup involved CloudWatch events that triggered a Lambda to run a refresh command. Upgrading to PostgreSQL 12.5+ Amazon RDS supports pg_cron from…Sql4 min readSql4 min read
Published in AdequateSource·Apr 11, 2021Is Yat the next great digital investment? 🚀Yat is the newest universal digital identity — and it is even tradable! Is this your opportunity to get in early and buy up all the good identities and make a huge profit when everyone needs their own Yat! Let’s take a look. What is Yat? 🥳 A Yat consist of 1 to 5…Investing4 min readInvesting4 min read
Published in codeburst·Sep 28, 2020Dependency Injection and Reflection for Frameworks in NET CorePlease note before reading: This article is based on learnings from the StarCraft II AI Framework, Abathur. It introduces a method for hiding dependency injection from the user of your framework which might not be desirable in your case. One of the features that the framework ‘Abathur’ includes is the…Net Core5 min readNet Core5 min read
Published in Level Up Coding·Sep 5, 2020Hello Marine — a SC2 AI GuidePrerequisites: StarCraft II installed. NET Core 3.1 SDK (or newer) Forked and Cloned SC2Abathur Running the SC2Abathur project the first time will generate everything needed to get started with Abathur. You should see output similar to this;Programming5 min readProgramming5 min read
Published in Level Up Coding·Aug 30, 2020NET Core Wrapper for SC2 APIThis article assumes that you are developing in .NET Core and intend to use the NydusNetwork wrapper. I have attempted to front-load the article with general applicable knowledge such that it can provide value to users of other wrappers. The StarCraft II API includes quite a few messages. They are…Programming6 min readProgramming6 min read
Published in Level Up Coding·Aug 20, 2020Guide to StarCraft II Proto APIThis article will take you through the initial steps of writing your own API for the StarCraft II client. This is not required at all, community APIs exist in most popular languages. However, the article provides some insights into how a basic SC2 API wrapper works. The client exposes a…Practice6 min readPractice6 min read
Published in Level Up Coding·Aug 12, 2020Protobuf — A high-performance data-interchange format.Protocol Buffers, commonly known as protobuf, is a binary data-interchange format that guarantees type-safety while being language-agnostic and cross-platform. The format is size-efficient and developed with a focus on high serialization/deserialization performance. The format relies on pre-compiled schemas unlike other data-interchange formats such as JSON that can be serialized/deserialized using…Protobuf4 min readProtobuf4 min read
Aug 8, 2020Abathur — a Framework for AIs in SC2A modulized approach to writing SC2 AIs in .NET Core with multi-language support. Follow the process of kickstarting a dormant project. What it was… Abathur, NydusNetwork and NydusWorm worked together to ease development of modulized SC2 AIs. The Abathur (.NET…Starcraft 22 min readStarcraft 22 min read
