THE SHAPE OF CARD GAMES

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FISHING

Stealing Bundles: Advanced Heuristics

Stealing Bundles mixed up a repeated deal and matching mechanics, with some timing and competition for the other player’s points. Given our statistical analysis, let’s see how it scores on...

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Mark Goadrich
on Mar 11, 2019
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FISHING

Stealing Bundles: Basic Statistics

With the basic Stealing Bundles coded in RECYCLE, it is time to run many simulations in CardStock with both random and AI players. As before, to gather statistics for this...

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Mark Goadrich
on Mar 10, 2019
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FISHING

Stealing Bundles: Coding

For our fourth game, we will look at Stealing Bundles, an easy game from the fishing genre of card games. Fishing games are popular all over the world, and Stealing...

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Mark Goadrich
on Mar 6, 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.