Blue Moon AI

This is a project to create an artificial intelligence opponent for the game Blue Moon. All eight of the original Blue Moon people decks are supported, as well as the more recent Buka Invasion deck.

News

• 2008-07-25 -- Version 1.3.2 released, with several more bug fixes.
• 2008-07-18 -- Version 1.3.1 released, with a few bug fixes mostly related to Buka changes.
• 2008-07-08 -- Version 1.3.0 released, with Buka support and many other improvements and bug fixes.
• 2008-02-12 -- Version 1.1.2 released, again with new neural nets trained to more strictly punish instant losses.
• 2008-02-01 -- Re-released version 1.1.1. The previous version attempted to hide the "close" button on the choose dialogs, which triggers a bug in GTK on Windows.
• 2008-01-31 -- Version 1.1.1 released, with new neural networks to fix a bug in the training.
• 2008-01-18 -- Version 1.0.3 released, which has some minor bug fixes, but also a complete translation of messages to German.
• 2008-01-16 -- A port of version 1.0.2 to the Mac is now available, courtesy of Mika Ryynänen.
• 2008-01-13 -- Version 1.0.2 released, to fix a nasty bug in the debug option which caused a crash.
• 2008-01-12 -- Version 1.0.1 released, with minor updates to the user interface, and an added debug option to help track down AI issues.

Downloads

The following package contains the source code, card images, and neural networks for all matchups between the original eight decks. 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 1.3.2

The following is a Windows self-installer provided by Dean Svendsen. It has a fairly complete German localization, and the German as well as English card images (select which to use at installation time). Note that unless you already have GTK libraries for Windows installed (unlikely), you will need those as well. If you have installed the GTK libraries from a previous Blue Moon version, there is no need to download or install them again.

• Download the Windows executable version 1.3.2
• Download the GTK libraries (required)

Documentation

See the AI FAQ for common problems and solutions.

See also

• Reiner Knizia is the author of Blue Moon
• Kosmos is the publisher and holds all the copyrights in the game. They have graciously given permission for me to distribute the card images.
• Fantasy Flight Games publishes the game in English and has the rules available for download
• BoardGameGeek entry for Blue Moon
• Mac OS 10.5 port is now available from Mika Ryynänen. It looks very slick!