DotA Bots

Description

This source code uses Valve's API in order to have functional, harder and challenging DotA bots.

Installing

There are two ways to use these bots:

• Subscribe to this workshop package.
• Download the latest release of this repository and put the bots directory (it is important you don't change the name of this directory) on game/dota/scripts/vscripts/.

Running

Always leave the console open to check if things are running as they should. Make a custom lobby on the local host and check the Fill empty slots with bots option. Then, choose a bot's difficulty that is different from None. You can now choose on the dropdown menu of Radiant/Dire bots the local dev script option to activate your bots.

Developing

Clone this repository and put it on game/dota/scripts/vscripts/.

The programming interface documenting the method's signatures is available here.

In order to get started into Lua programming, you can follow this reference.

Benchmarking

Getting started on game A.I.

• The AI Programmer's Bookshelf

Other Bots

• Dota 2 Bot Full-Overwrite Project
• PubSimulator
• Meepo & Puck
• Ruoyu Sun's Bots
• Ruoyu Sun's blog post
• lenLRX bots
• DQN Dota implementation

Bot Developing Tools

• Bot Interactive Console

Contributing

Discuss

The preferred sources of feedback for this repository are its issues, the DotA2 Dev Forum for scripting and DotA2 subreddit.

I can also answer any question by email or telegram.