General Game Playing

General Artificial Intelligence

1. Copy the rulesheet of Tic Tac Toe from Gamemaster to your computer. Use Standaloneopen to play a match of Tic Tac Toe after loading your copy of the rulesheet. (Hint: Click the pencil icon to load your file.)


2. Modify the rulesheet to support a 4x4 version of the game. Use the Rule Checker to check your rulesheet.


3. Once you are satisfied with your rulesheet, use Standaloneopen to play a match of your game. Once again, you will need to load your rulesheet into the Standalone page in order for it to be used.


4. Using the Players link on Gamemaster, start two automated players, e.g. Random and Twostep. Use Manageropen to start a manager. Load your rulesheet into the manager. Adjust the names of the players to correspond to the players you launched. Then click Begin to watch the players you selected play the game.


5. Optional. Download the stylesheet for Tic Tac Toe, adjust for your 4x4 version, and run a match with your rulesheet and stylesheet. Note that there is no documentation for stylesheets. You will need to intuit how they work from the Tic Tac Toe stylesheet. It is not difficult. Due to the absence of documentation, this task is optional.


6. Optional. Repeat the preceding tasks for a game of your own devising.

Submission details: Post the rules for your 4x4 version of Tic Tac Toe as a private post in the Assignment 2 part of the course Forum using your team name as subject. If you encode a game of your own, leave a public note in the Forum describing your game; bring your computer to class; and be prepared to demonstrate your game in standalone mode or with automated players.