Difference between revisions of "List of MTG Engines"

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Here's a list of MTG Engines:

Basic Features

• For AI column, please give a short description that makes a touch of sense about how the AI works (AI/Simple State machine etc). Add details as a note below, if you can't think of a good description.
• Card Count: There are about 13000 Distinct Mtg Cards ever printed.
• BotArena AI: FranAvalon says: I dont know what we can put here, but if we compared BA's AI with the other.... At least BA's AI can win a lot of games playing as a real player, instead lose the games by yourself because you are mana flooding, mana screw. Also, which AI can win you on second turn? ;D.) Basically, AI is our main attraction

Comparable Features

• Multiplayer means more than 2 Players.
• Network Play means more than 1 Human.

Additional Features

Images

• Uniques: This basically allows for cards which have more than one image in each set to be displayed in it's different forms. This was in effect for a few early sets like Fallen Empires and Alliances. This is also the case for most basic lands.
• Incantus downloads card images from the WotC website into a card_images.db, but it can also read images from the /data/cardimg/ folder as long as they use the same format, i.e. the name of the card with spaces turned into underscores and commas stripped out.

Usage

Here are some brief instructions on how to add Engines to the above tables. Please let me know (friarsol) if you have difficulties with the instructions, and I'll try to clarify them.

Adding an Engine

Copy the format provided by one of the other Engines already on the list.

For example, on the first table, copy the following (from the wiki code):

|-
| [http://www.slightlymagic.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=26 Forge] || Any (Java) || N/A || Java || 2012-08-03 [http://www.slightlymagic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=7738 (1.2.11)] || 3-4 Weeks || Simple || 11034 

and paste it below the last line that starts an Engine table row, just before the

|}

and then fill in the appropriate data, making sure to leave spaces in between the || symbol

Each table has slightly different column length, so make sure to grab your sample table row from the right table before adding.

Adding new Columns

If you'd like to add a new Column, I'd recommend adding at the end of an existing table. The trick here is to make sure you provide phantom data cells for every other engine that exists. Unless you don't mind hitting the preview button a lot, feel free to make suggestions and I can add them in if they seem like a reasonable comparison.