Abstract
ColorShapeLinks is an AI board game competition framework specially designed for students and educators in videogame development, with openness and accessibility in mind. The competition is based on an arbitrarily-sized version of the Simplexity board game, the motto of which, “simple to learn, complex to master”, is curiously also applicable to AI agents. ColorShapeLinks offers graphical and text-based frontends and a completely open and documented development framework built using industry standard tools and following software engineering best practices. ColorShapeLinks is not only a competition, but both a game and a framework which educators and students can extend and use to host their own competitions. It has been successfully used for running internal competitions in AI classes, as well as for hosting an international AI competition at the IEEE Conference on Games.
Highlights
ColorShapeLinks is an artificial intelligence (AI) competition framework for the Simplexity board game (Brain Bender Games, 2009) with arbitrary dimensions
These results show that AI competitions in general, and ColorShapeLinks in particular, have clear educational benefits with respect to student motivation, engagement and autonomy
In this paper we presented ColorShapeLinks, and AI board game competition framework designed for game development students and educators, with openness and accessibility at its core
Summary
ColorShapeLinks is an artificial intelligence (AI) competition framework for the Simplexity board game (Brain Bender Games, 2009) with arbitrary dimensions. The ColorShapeLinks development framework offers Unity (Unity Technologies, 2021) and .NET console frontends. The framework is open source, fully documented and developed following best practices in software engineering, allowing it to be studied and.
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