My New Game

sounds like a shit game ;(

its not the kind of game i would expect people to play for hours...

its more the fun of getting crushed hard constantly by a super AI at a seemingly simple game (if you put only 15 gems, it should be simple, but computer still owns).

lol i know, i just thought it'd be really funny to post that one line, i was cracking up at my own comment. no offence intended obv

imo it'd get much more interesting if you invited ai opponents instead of human vs ai in some simple game.. a lot of university math/programming competitions work like that, where all the entering teams make their own ai and the ai strategies battle it out in a tournament.

my friend who's a math phd was once ages ago telling me about exactly such a competition he entered with a team from his uni battling against other unis that came to the conference. I can't remember the specifics of the game but his team won and his ai's strategy sounded super clever and awesome. ppl are really smart

Right now my AI creation skill is not good enough to compete against people with computer science degrees (its only my first year in university). For SIMPLE games i can create perfect unbeatable AIs, (like the game in my last blog post) but i think anyone with a decent programming experience can do that too. contest are generally done for games with a reasonable ammount of complexity, so nobody can actually come up with a perfect AI.

For games which either are very complex (chess) or with imperfect information (poker), i am really not ready yet to enter a contest Actually i'm not even sure i could make a chess bot right now. If i was that good i would probably try to program a powerfull poker bot instead of unknown games i do this to practice programming AI so eventually maybe i can program usefull ones.

My current game somewhat has both complexity/unperfect information at the same time (if the number of gems is very high, the complexity is really high and my AI would think foreverrrr, and it also is unperfect information and i'm not that good yet to program in unperfect information games) so its not that easy i guess if the gem number is high.

However i don't think a unknown game like this would be taken for a contest i agree such contest must be fun thought but anyways right now my AI would probably get crushed.

All my AI does is look at every single buying combination possible, and analyse it using a formula made by myself (which tries to get both highest value possible / close values)

edit:
http://aichallenge.org/ just looked at this, seems kinda interesting

bootstraps bootstraps

hey keep it up, its cool to read about

u should just upload and post a link to the stuff so people can try out your game on a whim instead of having to ask you etc

agreed with Night