Programming Technique: How to create a simple card game

Question

as I am learning the Ruby language, I am getting closer to actual programming. I was thinking of creating a simple card game. My question isn\'t Ruby oriented, but I do kno

Answer 1

Don't bother looking for an AI package

You will learn more and get greater satisfaction by coding the "AI" yourself.

Start simple, just consider:

• game state - what cards have been played or seen, what cards are visible to all players
• strategy - how does a computer player respond based on its current hand and its knowledge of the game state

once you have that working, you can get develop more sophisticated strategies:

• inference - what cards does the human player likely hold based on her prior actions
• game tree search - how to maximize the chance of winning given what could possibly happen

then if you want to get really sophisticated, you can start looking into opponent modeling