This week, Team Tactica finished recording the first draft of our project video!

Since our project centers on Catan, we wanted to include clips of us playing the game. We wanted to have clips showing moves like trading and building settlements. We also wanted to capture the feelings of tenseness and frustration that one might experience during the game. The video was presented to our fellow IPPD classmates, and we received some feedback on how it can be improved. We hope to show you the final project video soon!

We plan on wrapping up the development phase of our project at the end of this week. After this week, we won’t be adding any more features to the core simulation or scripts; we’ll be focusing on bug fixes as well as minor tweaks to the UI (as long as they don’t affect training or testing). We then plan to do a full round of testing to get the final results of each of our models. Even if we do not hit our original 50% target win rate for all of our tests, we’ve still accomplished a lot by demonstrating how our action space reduction technique can be a powerful tool when building AI models in a complex environment.

As the Final Design Review (FDR) approaches (on April 22), we plan on preparing our presentation and presenting it to our peers during a peer review next Tuesday. By then, most of our project work will hopefully be done!

That’s all for now! See you next week!