Nobody's hacked up a straightforward way to hook into SC2 externally afaik. It's less likely to happen in a stable way with a currently active game, because bot

Nobody's hacked up a straightforward way to hook into SC2 externally afaik. It's less likely to happen in a stable way with a currently active game, because bot hooks can be used by cheaters, so game companies tend to change around interfaces in patches to thwart them. Whereas SC/BW is old enough that BWAPI has been stable for years now, and Blizzard hasn't moved to disable it (either legally or technically): http://code.google.com/p/bwapi/ http://code.google.com/p/bwapi/ I have seen one SC2 bot, based on the rather impressive feat of intercepting raw DirectX calls and reconstructing game state from them: http://graphics.stanford.edu/~mdfisher/GameAIs.html http://graphics.stanford.edu/~mdfisher/GameAIs.html