pkmn.ai

TODO

options

• PokemonBattleEngine
• pkmn/engine
• aed3/poke-sim
• pokemon-shwodown
• hiimvincent/poke-battle-sim
• custom
• pmariglia/poke-engine
• …

tradeoffs/features

• general purpose engine vs. ai engine
• ui engine (and text) vs. standalone
• completeness
• correctness
• “transformations” / “reversible functors” / “instructions” / -Dpatch delta/diff
  • https://keep.google.com/u/0/?q=zz80#NOTE/1DdpveTpUpYHSs_SG27G1UeeoAe0eie4Y3H0x3SXoozJrCi4w2DeFjs6WK_ENvb8_h3X6gCqs
  • https://discord.com/channels/@me/728386575230304329/1115467802103521401
  • https://discord.com/channels/689316505560809576/689316506265321535/1118307563054842006
• transitions function - brute force - bring-you-own - provided
• …

board representation

• https://www.chessprogramming.org/Make_Move
• https://www.chessprogramming.org/Unmake_Move
• https://www.chessprogramming.org/Copy-Make

internal vs. external

• https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/01/13/iteration-inside-and-out/
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5004162/what-does-it-mean-for-a-data-structure-to-be-intrusive

@online{pkmn2024engines,
  title  = "Competitive Pokémon Artificial Intelligence Concepts — Engines",
  author = "pkmn.ai",
  month  = "August",
  year   = "2024",
  url    = "https://pkmn.ai/concepts/engines/"
}