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A Magic: the Gathering draft simulator that demonstrates game AI concepts
Specs
Role: AI Programmer
Developed in a month in December 2023
2-person team (Myself and Nico Toé)
Written entirely in C# and WinForms
Personal Contributions
AI Programming
Nico and I worked together to determine how the AI should make decisions. We ultimately decided on a utility-based AI that integrated some player-modeling aspects.
Draft Simulation Architecture
In addition to writing the architecture for how the draft functioned itself, I wrote the front-end code for how the user interacts with the draft simulator and the back-end code for how the AIs interact with the draft.
In-depth Presentation
We wrote and presented our work and findings into a 13-minute presentation that details our methodology and thought processes behind the decisions that we made, as well as how to use the software we developed.
KalebBrown_NicoToe_ModelingADraftInMTG.docxAcademic Paper
In addition to the presentation, we also wrote a 7-page paper detailing our work to a greater extent.
Drafting is fun!
I have always been fascinated by the concept of making an AI that could play Magic: the Gathering effectively, and while this project is a far cry from making that a reality it's a fantastic step in the right direction! My teammate Nico Toè and I focused on modeling player behavior rather than finding optimal picks. There is a lot that we could do to improve upon this project in the future, but it was a lot of fun to develop and see emergent gameplay from our concepts!
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