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, May 29, 2008

Programming Cards With Events

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The hardest Magic cards are the ones they say, “Do X when Z happens.” I was thinking that each card could register an event with the rules ...

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Programming Notes

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These are a few notes I have made about MTG Forge version 2. Much like the “behind the scenes” feature of a DVD, these notes are brief and ...

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Minor Update

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I accidentally disabled a minor AI feature that effectively lets the AI mulligan. So here is a minor release that probably improves the AI ...

Magic Numbers

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It is a good practice not to hardcode numbers into your code, like “if x I am slowly working on MTG Forge version 2.0 and I was trying to ma...

Friday, May 23, 2008

Landwalk

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I haven't played MTG Forge in awhile, about a month. I guess it is similar to card designers who work on Magic all day, but may feel a l...

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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

New Version - Details

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Zip Version – Java jar for all operating systems, also includes the Windows executable in case you don’t want to run the installer -The Jav...

Monday, May 19, 2008

New Version

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250 new creatures thanks to Rob Cashwalker and the magic of “cards.txt”. MTG Forge now has a total of 714 cards. Creatures now have landwa...

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