I have searched the forum and hear mention of the bot API, but it isn't listed on the documentation. How similar is the WarLight engine on github to the current Warzone?

I am trying to create a gym environment so that I can train an RL agent against the hard-coded bots, and in the future, multi agent self-play.

I do t know about the APIs but I research RL and would be interested in the link to GitHub and wonder if it contains any of the idle code. I’d be interested in developing agents that can optimize idle play.

I'm not sure whether it's maintained but everything worked a couple years ago when Benjamin628 poked around to see if it still works. You can find the GitHub repo here: https://github.com/FizzerWL/WarLight.AI

I believe there's an interface somewhere to have a bot make moves in WarLight games.

How similar is the WarLight engine

Where is this? WarLight and Warzone was a Flash->Unity port of the game, but the bot framework seems to work for the post-port game too.

I am trying to create a gym environment so that I can train an RL agent against the hard-coded bots, and in the future, multi agent self-play.

I don't know if there's anything like this already available, but I think there were some efforts to create such environments in the past.

Probably worth reading/watching
https://www.warzone.com/blog/index.php/2016/02/the-warlight-ai-goes-open-source/
https://www.warzone.com/blog/index.php/2014/12/warlight-ai-challenge-2/
https://www.warzone.com/blog/index.php/2014/03/announcing-the-warlight-ai-challenge/
https://youtu.be/A3A0U2RxLKo

Note that the AI Games website is no longer functional

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Technically you could write an AI as a mod. See https://www.warzone.com/wiki/Mod_Developers_Guide for details

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I have searched the forum and hear mention of the bot API, but it isn't listed on the documentation. How similar is the WarLight engine on github to the current Warzone?

The Prod AI on GitHub is the one you play against in single player. My last bot is from 5 years ago (multiattack bot, capable of sometimes even catching very strong players on the wrong foot) and it worked back then.

Come at me.

Prod 2.0 is what AI players run on.
Prod 1.0 is the original, which plays significantly worse.