Screeps is an MMO strategy game for programmers. The core objective is to expand your colony; to control your units, you write code in JavaScript (or a transpiled language). The units run in real-time even when you aren't actively playing the game.
This is the AI system I have been developing for Screeps, themed loosely on the Zerg's swarm intelligence from Starcraft. Creeps belong to Colonies, which have several Hive Clusters. Creep actions for a given process are orchestrated by Overlords. The colony Overseer places Directives to adapt to stimuli.
Found something you like, hate, or find confusing? Join the discussion on Slack in the #overmind channel!
If you're new to screeps, I wouldn't recommend using Overmind out of the box; most of the fun of the game is programming your own AI and watching your code run like a well-oiled machine! However, when I first started playing Screeps and was looking for inspiration in other codebases, I was frustrated by a general lack of documentation and readibility, so Overmind was programmed with this in mind; it might be a good resource to reference when coding your first AI!
If you do want to use Overmind as-is, it "should" work right out of the box. However, if you find something broken, please submit an issue and I'll try to fix it.
Overmind uses the screeps-typescript-starter v3.0 installation and deployment scripts. Setting up the code base is simple with npm. To install, navigate to the Overmind root directory and run
npm install
To compile (to a single main.js file) and deploy to the Screeps server, create a screeps.json file from the example, then nagivate to the Overmind root and run
npm run push-main
For additional help, see the screeps-typescript-starter GitBook.
I've recently respawned to shard2 in the EXS4X sector.
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Check out the Overmind wiki for in-depth explanations of parts of the design of the AI.
