COMP 405 Spring 2014	Object-Oriented Game Theory Demonstrators

The goal of this assignment is to create a demonstration of the principles driving the object-oriented game theory discussions.  You are NOT required to create a game!

Key Notions:

• Separation of game "rules" from game "mechanics"
  • Delegation model for enforcing rules
  • Visitors as commands
    • Valid move checking
    • Status notifications
  • Memento Design pattern
    • Undo capability
  • Game as state machine
  • Player and other factories
• Separation of game play strategies from game mechanics.
  • Facade Design pattern for isolation
• Player management:
  • Turn-taking
  • "Virtual" and non-virtual states for visitors for
    • Win/lose/draw determination and notification
    • Fault handling
• Game tree (decision tree)
• Min-Max
  • Mapping instead of iteration
  • Accumulators
• Alpha-beta pruning
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Looking beyond:

• How do these ideas manifest or potentially manifiest themselve in non-game scenarios?
• Multi-player extensions?
• Flexibility
• Extensibility

Requirements for draft write-ups:

• Demonstrator description
  • What it does
  • The main conceptual/learning points a user should take away from using and studying the demonstrator.
• Principles (from above) being used:  what, where, why.
  • Do not need to use all of the above concepts/principles but should use the majority of them.
• System block diagram

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