Computer Programming and Magic: The Gathering

I started Forge, which is an open-source, free project that lets you play Magic: The Gathering against the computer. Currently other people are updating Forge and there will be no more posts to this blog.

Thursday, June 28, 2007

AI Good Enough?

I’m working on a new version of MTG Forge and I keep thinking about how to make the computer smarter, but I’m not sure if that is really rel...

Fun AI

The computer AI for MTG Forge is incredibly dumb. It just tries to play a card at random, pure and simple. But since you don’t know what car...

2 Types of Programming

I think all computer programming can be divided up into two categories. One, code that is short but very tricky and two, code that is long a...

Monday, June 25, 2007

MTG Improvements

3 new articles today I’m all for feedback, and I read all the e-mail I get. What are your thoughts about MTG Forge? Do you like the user int...

MTG Forge Overview

Trying to understand a whole programming project is difficult and almost impossible without copious amounts of documentation. I’m going to...

Design: Mouse Click

Without this next design concept I would have never been able to get MTG Forge off the ground. Processing user input, usually though the m...

Friday, June 22, 2007

Design: AI – Part 2

There are two methods in the class SpellAbility that the computer AI uses. Those methods are canPlayAI() and chooseTargetAI() The canPlayAI(...

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