Design Bug Project History

Introduction

Purpose: To create our own board game or modify an existing board game (such as "Settlers of Catan") with heavy emphasis on artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Customer: Anyone interested in playing the game, especially those who will present a challenge to the CPU player. More particularly, our "customers" are Brandt and Professor Henderson.

Vision statement: The game would allow for someone to play against a customizable CPU player. We would like to use a game that we know little about the strategy and have the computer determine its own strategies and heuristics.

Objectives:

• Design a board game of which we know little about the "best strategies"
• Implement the board game on the computer
• Allow a single human to play the game against a simple CPU player
• Enhance the CPU player so it can make reasonably "smart moves"
• Create an additional CPU player with machine-learning capabilities
• Allow a human to play either CPU players
• Allow the CPU players to play each other
• Continue modifying the game and the CPU player to learn the best game strategies

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