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Welcome to the Ludii Portal!

Ludii is a general game system designed to play, evaluate and design a wide range of games, including board games, card games, dice games, mathematical games, and so on. Download the Ludii player to explore our ever-growing database of games, test your AI search algorithms, and design your own games.

Games are described as structured sets of ludemes (units of game-related information). This allows the full range of traditional strategy games from around the world to be modelled in a single playable database for the first time. Ludii is being developed as part of the ERC-funded Digital Ludeme Project.

   

   

Playing Games with Ludii

1. Download the Ludii player here.
2. Access the user guide here.
3. Play games in your web browser or phone here.

Writing Games for Ludii

1. Download the Ludii player here.
2. Access the language reference here.
3. Some useful tips and examples can be found on the tutorials page here.

Creating a Ludii Agent

1. Download the Ludii player here.
2. Download and try an example agent for Ludii here.
3. Additional information about the development API can be found here here.

Entering a Ludii Competition

1. We will be running a GGP competition in 2022 as part of the ICGA Computer Olympiad.
2. Additional information about the Ludii AI Competition can be found here here.

   

   

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Game Library

Our game library includes historical information and playable versions of a large number of games. This will eventually include the thousand most important traditional strategy games throughout history.
 
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Digital Ludeme Project

The Digital Ludeme Project aims to bridge the gap between historical and computational studies of games, by applying modern AI techniques to the available historical and archaeological evidence.
 
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Ludii Services

The system will not only model and play games, but will evaluate reconstructions for quality and historical authenticity, automatically improving them where possible, and provide a number of other services.
 
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Discussion Forum

Chat with other members of the Ludii community, discuss the results of the latest competitions, and let us know of any games or features you would like to see added.
 
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World Map

Our database of games also includes a large amount of historical and cultural evidence. View all the games that we have collected so far on our World Map.
 
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Contact us

You can contact us directly using email, Facebook or Twitter.

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     cameron.browne@maastrichtuniversity.nl

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