That's not the point. Yes it superficially appears to be a simpler and less polished game than SC2/Dota, but the point is that it's a different kind of learning environment. It has different actions (things the AI can do, how it controls player movements), different observations (what the AI perceives/sees is structured differently), different rules/physics (this has a ball you can run to and kick).
In other words, you can perform different kinds of experiments and learn different things by studying this environment. The kind of AI that would excel at this game could have a different architecture and be trained differently than what you need to be effective at SC2/Dota. Just as you would learn different things designing a Quake bot using deep learning (your Quake bot would need to learn to navigate and map out 3D space, for one).
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That's not the point. Yes it superficially appears to be a simpler and less polished game than SC2/Dota, but the point is that it's a different kind of learning environment. It has different actions (things the AI can do, how it controls player movements), different observations (what the AI perceives/sees is structured differently), different rules/physics (this has a ball you can run to and kick).
In other words, you can perform different kinds of experiments and learn different things by studying this environment. The kind of AI that would excel at this game could have a different architecture and be trained differently than what you need to be effective at SC2/Dota. Just as you would learn different things designing a Quake bot using deep learning (your Quake bot would need to learn to navigate and map out 3D space, for one).