Measuring Board Game Distance
This work addresses the challenge of quantifying game similarities for researchers in computational game analysis, but it is incremental as it builds on existing concepts without introducing new methods.
The paper tackled the problem of measuring distances between board games using a set of general game concepts, resulting in a comparison of two distance metrics that highlight their subjective nature and interpretability.
This paper presents a general approach for measuring distances between board games within the Ludii general game system. These distances are calculated using a previously published set of general board game concepts, each of which represents a common game idea or shared property. Our results compare and contrast two different measures of distance, highlighting the subjective nature of such metrics and discussing the different ways that they can be interpreted.