General Game Playing

A game engine is usually where rules go to become software. Someone writes the rules, someone else encodes the rules, and an AI agent then spends its expensive little life asking the engine what moves are legal, what happens next, and whether it has already lost. Very glamorous. Very repetitive. General Game Playing tries to remove the hand-built engine from that loop. Instead of building a custom simulator for chess, backgammon, Amazons, Reversi, or some procedural oddity invented on a tired Wednesday afternoon, a game is described in a formal language and a generic system turns that description into something agents can use. ...