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A Practical Introduction to the Ludii General Game System

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Ludii is a new general game system, currently under development, which aims to support a wider range of games than existing systems and approaches. It is being developed primarily for the task of game design, but offers a number of other potential benefits for game and AI researchers, professionals and hobbyists. This paper is based on an interactive demonstration of Ludii at thuis year’s Advances in Computer Games conference (ACG 2019). It describes the approach behind Ludii, how it works, how it is used, and what it can potentially do.

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    Digital Ludeme Project: http://ludeme.eu/.

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    https://github.com/Ludeme/LudiiExampleAI.

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This research is part of the European Research Council-funded Digital Ludeme Project (ERC Consolidator Grant #771292) run by Cameron Browne at Maastricht University’s Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering.

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    Cameron Browne, Matthew Stephenson, Éric Piette & Dennis J. N. J. Soemers

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  2. Leiden University, The Hague, The Netherlands

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  3. The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Abdallah Saffidine

  4. National Chiao-Tung University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan

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Browne, C., Stephenson, M., Piette, É., Soemers, D.J.N.J. (2020). A Practical Introduction to the Ludii General Game System. In: Cazenave, T., van den Herik, J., Saffidine, A., Wu, IC. (eds) Advances in Computer Games. ACG 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12516. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65883-0_14

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