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+# PyCommandCenter: Library for making bots for Starcraft II
+
+PyCommandCenter is a slimmed down version of the popular Starcraft AI 
+[CommandCenter](https://github.com/davechurchill/commandcenter) connected to 
+Python.
+
+Key differences:
+
+* Library made for use with Python, made possible by binding existing C++ code 
+  to Python using [pybind11](https://github.com/pybind/pybind11)
+* No decision-making, only perception
+* Improved TechTree, by importing data from the JSON files provided by 
+  [sc2-gamedata](https://github.com/noorus/sc2-gamedata)
+* Everything is built using cmake, allowing for one Visual studio project to 
+  build PyCommandCenter together with all its dependencies
+
+# Credits
+
+CommandCenter is written by [David Churchill](http://www.cs.mun.ca/~dchurchill/), Assistant Professor of [Computer Science](https://www.cs.mun.ca/) at Memorial University, and organizer of the [AIIDE StarCraft AI
+Competition](http://www.cs.mun.ca/~dchurchill/starcraftaicomp/).
+
+Which in turn based his work on the Blizzard's [StarCraft II AI 
+API]((https://github.com/Blizzard/s2client-api) and the architecture of 
+[UAlbertaBot](https://github.com/davechurchill/ualbertabot/wiki).