January 13 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
📍 Hackforge HQ (300 Ouellette Ave, Unit 210) & Online
💻👥 Hybrid
💲 Free
As we gear-up for the 2025 Global Game Jam, we’ll be offering a series of events to get everyone feeling interested, excited, and confident about participating!
While AI has really caught on in the last few years, we were already playing (and losing) chess against computers in the 90’s. So were those computers intelligent? How did they know not only how to play the game, but to play it well?
The answer is ‘Combinatorial Game Theory,’ (CGT) and ‘Minimax’ (MM). Minimax is an implementation of the ideas about winning moves for zero-sum games put forward by CGT.
In this intermediate-level session, Doug Sartori will walk through a demonstration of how CGT and MM can be used in basic games (think Go, Tic-Tac-Toe, and checkers). Using Javascript, he’ll walk through the concept, math, and code, enabling you to use these theories in your own game-making.
📆 Monday, January 13, 2025
🕦 6 – 7:30 PM
📍Hackforge HQ (300 Ouellette, Unit 210), and online via Zoom
Want to learn more? Check out this article on CGT in AI