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David Zuttermeister
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FigMentO! is an architure for a component-based heuristic-search, game-player written in Java. Most heuristic-search, zero-sum games share a great deal in common - at the very least, some sort of search algorithm. Often, heuristics in different games are very similar. Also, the structure of turn-taking, move-making, etc should be share-able across a wide swath of games. FigMentO! will allow programmers of heuristic search, zero-sum games to "plug in" pieces of a game (the board, the move-maker, the search algorithm) together creating a complete game. The idea is to increase code reuse in heuristic search games (write the AlphaBeta search once), and to allow for easy experimentation (does algorithm A work better for game M, but algorithm B work better for game N?) by easily swapping different algorithms in to games without having to recompile. GUI will be supported through Java Swing components.
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