[Cs254f11] Yavalath

[Lee Spector]

I said in class that the name of this computationally-evolved game came "from the Lord of the Rings or something," but now I see that:

    The name "Yavalath" was randomly created from a list of Tolkien-style word forms by a Markovian process.

Well that's more interesting too! 

More information on Yavalath can be found at:

http://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/2814/yavalath-on-evolutionary-game-design
http://www.cameronius.com/games/yavalath/
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/33767/yavalath

 -Lee


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