Hasbro Connect 4 Advanced

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After the framework was implemented, our first behavioral model was a fully-defensive AI (first generation) that would, on its turn, strictly evaluate the current game state and play in the spot where the human player would have the highest “profit” (heuristic value) if the human player were to place there instead. We evaluate profit as shown in the following code snippet:

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There were three main fronts upon which we evaluated our design: (1) speed of execution, (2) gameplay awareness, and (3) correctness.If possible, place your disks in the openings to allow multiple connections. For example, if you have panels separated by a row or column, look for an intermediate hole that will allow you to connect the panels diagonally, horizontally or vertically. If the nature of your case is having significant and immediate impact on your organisation’s ability to function, or carries significant financial risk, please call us as soon as possible. A basic walkthrough is available here, and there is a full written guide available in the user help section of the community itself. You can also ask AVA for help finding knowledge articles or navigating other resources. Move info: Optionally display the number of half-moves till the end of the game for the possible moves Here at Nerdbot we are always looking for fresh takes on anything people love with a focus on television, comics, movies, animation, video games and more. If you feel passionate about something or love to be the person to get the word of nerd out to the public, we want to hear from you!

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Regarding things we might do differently for our AI design, there are additional features we may be able to add to it. For example, we currently drive the VGA display using the HPS. By integrating VGA display into the FPGA, we could be able to update the display faster (this may even allow us to add fancy animations, such as showing discs dropping and making a sound when they hit the bottom, which was not done due to the delay from the HPS in constantly writing and overwriting a disc). The second, and arguably the most important, evaluation criteria for our design was gameplay awareness. In other words, we wished for this AI to simulate an above-average Connect Four player as closely as possible. This required the AI to be cognizant of various different scenarios that could occur in the game, and react accordingly. We will illustrate several examples of this below. As long as you play the long game while being conscious of your opponents' moves, you’ll win most Connect 4 games you participate in.Players that enjoy playing Connect 4 might also like Gomoku, increasing the challenge with a giant board and 5 pieces to connect. If you seek a more straightforward game, you can go for Tic-Tac-Toe, a 3x3 row game. A basic strategy for this game is to have discs in the center of the board as this gives you more opportunities to make connections. With an odd number of columns, with discs in the middle, you can make connections in any direction. If you are the first player, place the first disc in the middle column. Then put as many discs as you can in the central column. 2. Plan ahead The AI of this game is based on an exhaustive evaluation of all possible game positions of up to 23 coins, Because Connect 4 requires this sort of thinking, it helps build your strategy skills for more complicated games, such as chess. One last feature that we added to our AI was meant to let the AI perform slightly advanced gameplay. This feature actually creates an exception to the above feature, where we do not allow the AI to self-destruct, enabling self-destruction if the move effectively sets up a trap. We can illustrate this example in the image below.