Hi all, I´m in the process of building the IA for a game that more or less is the same that the ones listed in the topic. I have little IA knoledge (well... I have done some platform enemy IA, tetris, etc... basic stuff), and I don´t see how to create good enemy players IA for a game like this. There are thousand of possibilites. I have thought about using a Neuronal nertwork but I should let it play lota time to get good results (or this is what I think). Could any one give any tip, insight, etc... on this? Thanks in advance, HexDump.

Hi Rasmadrak,

you´re right I´m refering to IA (AI in spanish :)), sometimes I misspelled.

Well, what you said is really true, but I see thousand of possiblities in this type of games, so... I´m a bit overloaded :D. This is why I asked for some help.

Anyway I have to think more about it,

Thanks in advance,
HexDump.

I dont know how Yugi-oH works, but I did work on the Might and Magic series, if it's the PC game your talking about. For games with such complex simulations ( and they were very complex, with spells, counter spells, damage modifers, 2ndary spell effects, etc..). If i remeber correctly the way it worked was it actually ran the simulation engine and did a search of possible moves and ranked them. Essentially doing an A* search and at each step the state of the battlefield was tokenized and the simulation actually ran to search for the next best moves. Don't know how deep the search wen't, and I'm sure they wrote some huersitic for generating moves, so they can avoid totally incorrect ones.

This was ofcoruse expensive CPU wise, but with todays machine you can do a much deeper search and potentially have stronger AIs.

Good Luck!

-ddn