Services
Ludii is intended as a general purpose tool for anyone interested in games: AI researchers, historians, designers, hobbyists, … We hope to eventually provide the following services (future work!).
1. PLAY
Ludii will support the following modes of play.
- Human-AI: Play any game against the default Ludii AI agents or your own custom AIs.
- Human-Human: Play remotely against other players through a network connection.
- AI-AI: Watch the AIs battle it out!
- Tournament: Set up your own tournaments to evaluate a number of AI agents for a particular game or set of games. Test AI playing strength over a range of games against a range of opponents.
- Solve: Check puzzles and other CSP-style problems for solvability, uniqueness and deducibility.
2. ANALYSE
We will provide automatic evaluations of games, typically based on self-play trials, either directly through Ludii or upon request through the Ludii Portal.
- Evaluate games for playability based on simple but reliable metrics.
- Evaluate games for quality based on preferred aesthetic criteria.
- Estimate the strategic depth of games.
- Estimate the historical authenticity of rule sets based on the historical and cultural evidence contained in the game library [link].
- Explore coalition effects in multiplayer games.
- Provide comprehensible explanations of learnt strategies.
- Data mine the game library to find common ludemeplexes (structures of ludemes) across the full range of games.
- Cluster games by ludemeplex to find new classifications based on implicit mechanisms of play.
- Provide mathematical profiles of games, based on mathematical concepts associated with each ludeme.
- Provide plain English rule descriptions based on ludemic descriptions.
- Estimate conceptual distance between given games, for phylogenetic analysis and novelty/plagiarism testing.
3. GENERATE
We will provide a number of automated game design and optimisation services, either directly through Ludii or upon request through the Ludii Portal.
- Complete plausible rule sets from partial evidence based on historical and cultural context.
- Optimise known reconstructions to maximise game quality and historical authenticity.
- Find interesting new games similar to a known base game.
- Generate new games through unconstrained search or targetted at specific criteria.
- Generate bespoke games based on player preferences.
- Suggest similar games that players might like.
- Generate puzzles from games to demonstrate particular aspects.
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