THE SHAPE OF CARD GAMES

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SHEDDING

LAMA: One Round

LAMA is now coded in RECYCLE, so we are ready to begin our simulations in CardStock with both random and AI players. As before, to gather statistics for this post,...

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Mark Goadrich
on Jun 11, 2019
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SHEDDING

LAMA: Coding

Our sixth game for analysis is a new shedding game, L.A.M.A by Reiner Knizia and AMIGO Games. LAMA was just nominated for the 2019 Spiel Des Jahres, one of the...

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Mark Goadrich
on May 30, 2019

ABOUT

The Shape of Card Games is an attempt to quantify the mechanics, genres, strategy, and tactics found across many different types of card games. Each week, we'll discuss a different game, showing how the rules can be captured with RECYCLE and simulations with both random and AI players in Card Stock can sketch out the heuristics of the game.