play Magic against the computer - new program

mtgrares · Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 20

I wrote a new program that lets you use around 300 cards and you can play against the computer. All the rules of Magic are enforced. You have to have Java installed. Just unzip all the files in the same directory and download click on the file "run-forge.jar" E-mail me any comments at mtgrares at yahoo.com

http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=156543&use_mirror=osdn&filename=01-09-release-forge.zip&66772540

RichardDWade · Joined: 20 Mar 2006 Posts: 438

*cough* virus *cough*

CMA-Flippi · Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 5:56 pm Post subject:

nice program but it doesn't make fun :/

mtgrares · Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 20

Its not a virus, its been downloaded a couple of hundred times already.

I tried to make it fun. I enjoy playing it. I love the sealed deck mode, I find it challenging.

tg · Joined: 04 Feb 2006 Posts: 51

interesting, maybe for test a deck new deck or anything...

tg · Joined: 04 Feb 2006 Posts: 51

NVM... it sucks

lol....

mtgrares · Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 20

Well Apprentice lets you play with tons of cards, well all of them. So my program seems tiny, only 300 cards. Maybe I have a fear of being beat by a human being, lol? I just enjoy making "mean" decks, like land destruction or something, and killing the computer with it.

Spyx · Joined: 31 Oct 2004 Posts: 874

lol nicely written Very Happy

only thing I noticed was that the computer plays giant growth and might of oaks before attacking Confused

mtgrares · Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 20

You can now play with the new Black Wrath of God, Damnation, a Planar Chaos spoiler card.

The computer AI is fairly basic, just getting the computer to play cards at all is hard, lol

PatrickGA · Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 11

It would have to be fairly basic wouldn't it? It would be so ridiculously tedious to program the logic behind a TCG simulator that it's just better to find another person to play with, really.

In Magic in particular, the dropping of a single card completely changes the situation of a game -- some situations an AI player could hardly recognize, because often it isn't the one card, but the bigger combo that you should look out for. Would you code each combination of cards separately? Assuming everyone played with a deck of exactly 60 cards, there are... too many possibilities to fit on my calculator.

That's also why I feel it's best that Apprentice doesn't enforce to rules of Magic on its own, but rather leaves that to the player. There are literally hundreds of cards that force you to throw the rules out the window -- What then?

Nicely done, all the same... I just don't think playing AI will ever compare to playing with another, I'm sorry to say.

ElvishGod · Joined: 12 May 2005 Posts: 2929

this game is amazingly awesome...

how do you generate the sealed decks? there is clearly a good land balance and such

mtgrares · Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 20

Thanks, the sealed decks have 2 colors and a minimium of 16 creatures and 9 lands of each colors. The card set is composed of cards that hopefully are ALL useful, so you shouldn't have any dead cards in your hand. Updates are coming soon.

--Forge