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Starcraft

Starcraft

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Last discussed Oct 19, 2026

A real-time strategy video game that was used by AI researchers for training game-playing agents.

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Jordi Hays
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Used for: Gaming as a teenager

"I played video games as a kid and an early teenager. StarCraft 2 is what I got deepest into, but then once I was really into surfing, any time I would have spent gaming it was trying to get a ride to the beach."

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Peter Yang
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"I wanted to actually have it build a Star Fox style rail shooter with StarCraft assets. StarCraft is probably my number one favorite game."

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"Starcraft is my favorite game of all time. I played it non-stop in high school, skipped classes to play it. There are rumors that Blizzard is worki..."

"I played games like Starcraft and Warcraft and stuff, and it's basically all about imbalances — one race fights, especially something like Starcraft, which is truly not the same starting board at all."

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John Coogan
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Praised: RTS skills (multitasking, rapid processing) more applicable to air traffic co... vs: Compared favorably to FPS games for air traffic controller aptitude

"I would go with a Starcraft player over an FPS player all day."

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Y Combinator
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"Tom Brown had to write like the harness code to allow like the preGPT AI at OpenAI to play Starcraft"

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