Fifth Aeon – A.I Competition and Balancer

<p>Collectible Card Games (CCG) are one of the most popular types of games in both digital and physical space. Despite their popularity, there is a great deal of room for exploration into the application of artificial intelligence in order to enhance CCG gameplay and development. This paper presents Fifth Aeon a novel and open source CCG built to run in browsers and two A.I applications built upon Fifth Aeon. The first application is an artificial intelligence competition run on the Fifth Aeon game. The second is an automatic balancing system capable of helping a designer create new cards that do not upset the balance of an existing collectible card game. The submissions to the A.I competition include one that plays substantially better than the existing Fifth Aeon A.I with a higher winrate across multiple game formats. The balancer system also demonstrates an ability to automatically balance several types of cards against a wide variety of parameters. These results help pave the way to cheaper CCG development with more compelling A.I opponents.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

MS in Computer Science

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Computer Science

Year dc:date.available

2019

Author dc:creator

• Ritson, William M

Contributors dc:contributor

• Foaad Khosmood

• A.I.
• Games
• Automatic Balancing
• Competition
• Computational Engineering
• Game Design

Identifier

10.15368/theses.2019.56

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.calpoly.edu:theses-3465