HiveMind

An AI developed to play the Hive board game.

There are 4 main components which make up the HiveMind AI. This repository contains the server and the main AI unit.

• Client (Swift)

  • hivemind-client
  • iOS app to process state and display moves
  • Lightweight -- primarily encodes basic state and movements
  • GUI to display movements

• Server (Ruby on Rails)

  • Lightweight
  • Receives the game state from the client and forwards it to the engine
  • Passes the suggested move from the engine back to the client

• Engine (Swift)

  • hive-engine
  • Maintains the state of a game
  • Encodable & decodable to pass from client to server and back
  • Provides rules of the games to the AI to allow it to determine valid, playable moves

• HiveMind (Swift)

  • Programmed with explicit strategies
  • Given a game state, explores various moves to determine best play
  • Relies on alpha-beta pruning