Race for the Galaxy AI

This is a project to create artificial intelligence opponent(s) for the card game Race for the Galaxy. Currently, the base game and both released expansions are supported.

News

• 2010-01-06 -- Version 0.6.1 released, with a fix to the two-player advanced game action selection GUI and a new military strength indicator.
• 2009-12-19 -- Version 0.6.0 released, with several AI improvements, GUI changes, undo turn support, and load/save support.
• 2009-09-23 -- Version 0.5.4 released, to fix crashes when changing game settings on some machines.
• 2009-09-16 -- Version 0.5.3 released, with several GUI improvements and some minor bug fixes.
• 2009-09-03 -- Version 0.5.2 released immediately after 0.5.1, to fix a crippling resize bug introduced in 0.5.1.
• 2009-09-03 -- Version 0.5.1 released, fixing several bugs, some of them important especially to European users.
• 2009-09-03 -- Added links to a mirror site hosted by "Chairman Kaga" from BoardGameGeek.
• 2009-09-02 -- First version (0.5.0) released.

Downloads

Source code

The following package contains the source code, card images, and neural networks. It should compile fairly easily on any Linux or other Unix-like system. You will need the GTK libraries and headers, etc, to compile it.

• Download the source code package version 0.6.1 from warpcore.org -- This is the preferred location
• Download the source code package version 0.6.1

Windows

The following is a Windows self-extractor that contains everything needed to play.

• Download the Windows installer version 0.6.1 from warpcore.org -- This is the preferred location
• Download the Windows installer version 0.6.1

Mac OS X

The following is a pre-compiled binary for Mac machines running OS X. First, download and install the GTK framework (first link below). Then download and run the RFTG binary (second link).

• Download the GTK framework
• Download the Mac OS X RFTG binary (version 0.6.1)

FAQ

See the FAQ for some common gameplay questions and answers.

See also

• Rio Grande Games is the publisher and holds all the copyrights for the images and card names. They have graciously given permission for me to distribute these, though they may not be redistributed or used for any other purpose.
• Tom Lehmann is the designer of Race for the Galaxy.
• The rules are available from Rio Grande Games.
• BoardGameGeek entry for Race for the Galaxy

Contact

Feel free to contact me at keldon@keldon.net with questions, suggestions, or other comments.