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Kamisado, a JavaScript Implementation of an Abstract Board Game.

Frederik 👨‍💻➡️🌐 Creemers on April 18, 2018

I have a problem. I have way too many unfinished side projects in my ~/dev folder. So I wanted to build something quick, and commit to releasing ...
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Yokim Pillay

Great job! I've never heard of this before, sounds like a really fun concept!

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Frederik 👨‍💻➡️🌐 Creemers

I hadn't heard about it either before last week. I was looking for a game that was longer and a little bit more interesting than tic-tac-toe, but still fairly short and simple.

I'd like to write an article, possibly a series of articles, on algorithms for board game AI, and I was looking for an interesting game to implement where minimax, without having to cut it off at a certain depth. The games with the simplest rules are often abstract games, so I googled abstract games, and this was one of the first ones that came up.

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Yokim Pillay

That's super fascinating! I'm looking forward to your next articles :)