On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Felipe Lessa wrote:

On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 08:46:07AM -0500, Matthias Görgens wrote:

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Interesting idea.  But I guess you should clarify what kind of card games you want to support.  E.g, a DSL for trick taking games like Bridge, Skat or Doppelkopf might be different from one that's good for Canasta or Rummy.  Or do you aim at Solitaire?  I'd suggest starting with a very small scope of the domain for a very first version.

Hmm, good catch.  I was thinking about solitaire, i.e. single player, games.  Multiplayer card games certainly have their own set of interesting challenges.

If I ever get to develop something capable of expressing nicely Patience, Spider, Pyramid and Black Hole I'll be more than satisfied :).

I'd be interested in something which could model games of Dominion [1], as it's my current addiction; it's a (non-collectable) card game where you build and tune your deck as you play, and aside from money and victory point cards (which are always available) randomly has available ten possible "action" card types to buy each game (out of the total set of action card types — 76, as of the latest expansion). There have already been various basic analyses of various possible strategies assuming simple rules; if a strategy can't beat the "baseline" strategy "Big Money" (which involves buying nothing but money and victory points the entire game), it should probably be scrapped. [1] http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/36218

2009/12/3 Matthias Görgens :

Hi Tom,

Did you make any progress on your Dominion quest?  I guess you could start by modeling `Big Money' and add the other cards (and interaction) from there.

No, I'm still trying to tune a "partitionM" function I wrote. (I'm still a beginner.) ^_^ I'd like to write a Dominion library or some more generic superset at some point, though.

Yah! We like helping! On Dec 3, 2009, at 2:37 PM, Daniel Fischer wrote:

Am Donnerstag 03 Dezember 2009 19:23:24 schrieb Tom Tobin:

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2009/12/3 Matthias Görgens :

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Hi Tom,

Did you make any progress on your Dominion quest? I guess you could start by modeling `Big Money' and add the other cards (and interaction) from there.

No, I'm still trying to tune a "partitionM" function I wrote.

Maybe we can help?

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(I'm still a beginner.) ^_^ I'd like to write a Dominion library or some more generic superset at some point, though.

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Am Donnerstag 03 Dezember 2009 21:24:11 schrieb Tom Tobin:

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Daniel Fischer wrote:

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Am Donnerstag 03 Dezember 2009 19:23:24 schrieb Tom Tobin:

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No, I'm still trying to tune a "partitionM" function I wrote.

Maybe we can help?

Sure; should I post it to haskell-beginners?

Here, there, most of us are subscribed to both lists.