Game Development Status

Completed the plan generator last week. 1024 Plans for the Opening Moves scenario. I moved away from the graph representation of the map. I will probably still use a graph of nodes and arcs as a means of finding the FEBA set of victory locations.

I did some additional design work and came up with the following:

Generate Plans

Prune the plans and pre-rank them

Evaluate the plans in pre-rank order (probably in groups of X plans at a time depending on how long it takes, so that the AI thread can be interrupted by the main thread)

Rank the plans that were evaluated

Choose the highest ranking plan

Implement that plan


There will be a bias against changing plans too often. Given development time, I will also add in an option to force the AI to use the historical plan for the first turn.

I did a quick count of hours spent on the game in the last few months:

Month	Hours
June	45 hours 1 minutes
July	27 hours 26 minutes
August	4 hours 42 minutes
September	10 hours 12 minutes
October	32 hours 1 minutes

I should top 60 hours in November with another 20-30 hours in December. We'll see whether that is enough.

Coming Up

Write the pre-rank and pruning functions.
Write the evaluation function.
Write the post-rank function.
Write the selection and persistence code.
Encode the map as a graph with victory location nodes and arcs linking the nodes geographically.
Write FEBA determination code.