Re: AI in card games!!!

["Ben Humphrey" <benjina@mindspring.com>]

Well, let's say Monopoly had a board game, but no one ever made a video game
of it... or put it on the internet...
doesn't mean you can because it's not out there.  Companies have liscense's
on their products.

Have you been watching what is going on with Hasbro recently?  Trying to sue
people for ideas that they suppossadly stole from their products.

Anyway, you need a liscence to make a product that another company has
patented.  I am not sure that
card games are patended though?  I think anyone can make a solitaire...
It's not like anyone has patented "ring around the rosy" :)

Make the game, if you get sued, oh well , :)
You can make any game I think, you just can't make any money off of it...

Ben Humphrey
Game Programmer
benh@humongous.com
benjina@mindspring.com


----- Original Message -----
From: Dustin McCulloch <dustin_mcculloch@yahoo.com>
To: <gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 7:10 PM
Subject: AI in card games!!!


> I am wondering, if you can reserve an idea, or
> whatever its called, for a game, its a card game, and
> my family has been playing it for years, but I have
> checked everywhere, and no one sells it, and its not
> on the net, so can I reserve the right to make a
> computer game of it?  and if I can where,  and just
> because not many people responded to my plea for help
> on card game Artificial Intelligence, please read my
> last message below, thanks again for any help!!!
>
>
> > Hello everyone, I was just wondering how I could
> > learn
> > how to write AI for card games, for a game like
> > Euchre, cause I have no clue, I have never even
> > written a piece of code in Visual Basic, but would
> > this program be okay to write my card game in???  It
> > is a 4 player game, and I will probably need to make
> > 3
> > computer opponents at first (2 opp 1 partner), and
> > then make it into like a multiplayer game that can
> > support both, like the games on THE ZONE by msn...
> >
> > anyways, i hope some of you know where I can find
> > this, or else... Im in for a long haul,
> > nevertheless,
> > thanks for taking the time to read this..
> >
> > Dustin
>
>
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