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(Message started by: clojure on Oct 22nd, 2011, 9:09am)

Title: AI for the board game Dominion
Post by clojure on Oct 22nd, 2011, 9:09am
http://gameprogrammer.dk/data/Developing_an_Agent_for_Dominion_using_modern_AI-approaches.pdf

Title: Re: AI for the board game Dominion
Post by Fritzlein on Oct 22nd, 2011, 7:17pm
Thanks for the link to an interesting read.  As a casual Dominion player myself, I would like an opportunity to play against the AI that these folks evolved.  They said only that their AI was "challenging" for human players, so I suspect that I could consistently win more than my share.  (There is also an evolved Puerto Rico AI available on the Internet that is challenging, but I evolved myself to win 45% of 5-player games against it.)  Do you know where (if anywhere) their Dominion AI is available?

Title: Re: AI for the board game Dominion
Post by Swynndla on Oct 22nd, 2011, 10:18pm
The NEAT idea seems ... oh what's an english word that means cool & tidy??  I would like to one day use that to develop an arimaa evaluator.

Title: Re: AI for the board game Dominion
Post by clojure on Oct 23rd, 2011, 2:55am
No, I don't unfortunately know whether it is available for play but there's this page: http://gameprogrammer.dk/dominion

His email is at the top right. Maybe he would be willing to publish it?

Title: Re: AI for the board game Dominion
Post by chessandgo on Apr 13th, 2013, 10:11am
Wow, I discovered Dominion only a few days ago, it's amazing. I'm completely addicted. Dominion AI seems like a very interesting challenge as well from my noob perepctive.

Title: Re: AI for the board game Dominion
Post by Fritzlein on Apr 13th, 2013, 11:20am
Yes, I have gotten sufficiently hooked on Dominion to buy two expansions (Intrigue and Prosperity) in addition to the base game.   The only major flaw I find in Dominion is that it is a card game, i.e. luck plays an enormous role.  However, a poker player shouldn't mind that given the many ways one has to express skill within variance.  Now if only there were on-line Dominion gambling sites where you could make a living.  (You might be interested in playing on BrettSpielWelt if you don't play there already, but alas no money changes hands. :) http://www.brettspielwelt.de/?nation=en )

Title: Re: AI for the board game Dominion
Post by chessandgo on Apr 13th, 2013, 11:50am
Oh, I'm playing at http://play.goko.com/Dominion/gameClient.html. And yeah, obviously it's all about % of chance to win (or average point difference? That'd be a slighlty different way to play). And as a poker player I'm fine with that indeed :) It's even better for bots, thay really can play tons of games to have significant sample size.

Title: Re: AI for the board game Dominion
Post by MojoJojo on Dec 13th, 2013, 11:16pm
Have you played the game by Whale Song Games, based on Dominion, called Fortunes of War?

I used to play FOW all the time =)

Title: Re: AI for the board game Dominion
Post by harvestsnow on Nov 2nd, 2014, 4:53pm
No.



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