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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.
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This research is funded by the European Research Council as part of the Digital Ludeme Project (ERC Consolidator Grant #771292) led by Cameron Browne at Maastricht University’s Department of Advanced Computing Sciences.
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Stephenson, M., Soemers, D.J.N.J., Piette, É., Browne, C. (2023). Measuring Board Game Distance. In: Browne, C., Kishimoto, A., Schaeffer, J. (eds) Computers and Games. CG 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13865. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34017-8_11
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