Download or read book Evolutionary Game Design written by Cameron Browne and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book describes the world's first successful experiment in fully automated board game design. Evolutionary methods were used to derive new rule sets within a custom game description language, and self-play trials used to estimate each derived game's potential to interest human players. The end result is a number of new and interesting games, one of which has proved popular and gone on to be commercially published.