I have been granted permission to release my Race for the Galaxy AI to the public by Rio Grande Games. It's now available at my website:

http://keldon.net/rftg

Both a source code distribution and Windows installer are available.

There's support for both current expansions, 2-6 player games (if expansions are used), and the 2 player advanced game. Note: goals are always on if using either expansion, and takeovers are always on if using Rebel vs Imperium.

I've spent most of my time lately on the new cards and rules from the second expansion, and not so much on the AI decision-making. Therefore, I don't think it's as strong as it could be. I can often win in most setups except the two-player advanced (a format either the AI is really good at, or I suck at). I hope to make some improvements in this area next.

Let me know if you run into any bugs. Takeovers, especially, are fairly new and complicated and I'm sure I don't handle everything exactly right yet.

Big thanks to Rio Grande and Tom for changing their mind about this, and also Wei-Hwa for sending me the great-looking card art.

After playing well over a hundred games of Blue Moon with Keldon's wonderful AI, you owe it to yourself to check this out immediately.

Keldon, you are officially the man... twice.

As my download putters at around 3.0k/s, may I humbly suggest you find another place to mirror it?

It totally craps out around 647kb.

Mine too... Does anyone know how large the Windows download is?

Very excellent! Thanks so much to RGG and the team for allowing this! And thanks to you for building this AI! I'm a-downloading it now!

Is the app network capable or is it designed solely as a man vs machine grudge match?

wget claims 20 megs:



Thanks a lot for making this available!

Well, there goes my weekend!

I'm really glad to see the powers that be change their mind on this one, and will be pulling this down at first opportunity. I've really enjoyed Keldon's Blue Moon game (it made me get every deck I could find) and believe that the same will be true of electronic Race.

Keldon, do you have an official means for us to report bugs, findings, etc?


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Currently at 16 megs and counting!!

Thanks, Keldon!

EDIT: File size confirmed at 20,749,418 bytes. Took over 2 hours!!

What language, btw?

It looks like it's about 17000 lines of C.

I'll answer a whole bunch of questions at once:

First, I'm really sorry about the limited bandwidth! I'll try to find a mirror soon, though according to the server logs it looks like several people have managed to snag a copy by now. Hopefully the initial rush will be tapering off soon. If anyone has a good mirror site in mind, people send me a message.

Currently the application is just you vs AI (or several AIs, depending on how many players you choose). I have some ideas in mind for making it network-aware, but I haven't started writing anything for that yet.

For bug reports, suggestions, etc, just send them me via email (address is keldon@keldon.net), Geekmail here at BGG, or just post a reply to this thread if you think others should know.

I've gotten (and fixed) one bug report already about the Galactic Riches goal (first to 4 goods). It's not being awarded properly after the Produce phase (though it does get awarded after a Settle). I'll release a new version soon with this and any other bugs fixed in the meantime.

Everything is written in C, with GTK as a widget library for the GUI. Much of the neural net code is duplicated from my earlier Blue Moon program. Pretty much everything else is newly written.

May i be the first to say: **** yeeeeah! Thank you Rio/Tom!

Edit: As for bandwidth, Keldon or someone with the completed download could just throw it up on rapidshare.de or something.

Rapidshare would be awesome. I'm getting 2.1KB/sec

Even a torrent would be better / more efficient... are there any good public trackers these days that just accept whatever?

Just finished a first game...

AWESOME job, Keldon!

Thank you, and kudos to Jay (Rio Grande Games) and Tom for allowing this version to be released!

Has anyone gotten the Windows installer to work? I'm getting "The setup files are corrupted. Please obtain a new copy of the program."

My MD5 sum:
24209851cdf732e890966bd73579f590 RFTG_0.5.0.exe

RFTG_0.5.0.exe

Size: 20,749,418 bytes
MD5 sum: 330c809eaf362099016e9be470ce15fc

The correct MD5sum of the Windows installer is 330c809eaf362099016e9be470ce15fc.

I've put a link to a Rapidshare copy of the Windows installer up on my website. It's probably the best choice for anyone who wants to download it at the moment.

I have just finished mirroring onto my personal Web server:

http://warpcore.org/rftg/

This is an enterprise-grade dedicated server hosted by 1&1 with a full 100Mbit uplink. I just downloaded from it at 700KB/sec, and of course no RapidShare queues.

(I now have official permission to mirror. Download away!)

Thanks, looks like my download stopped a bit short.

This is awesome - great job!

Sweet, thanks! This appears to be running much better!

Oh wow! Keldon, this plays excellently. After only 1 trial, I can already imagine the hours that are going to melt away playing this. Thanks a ton!

This is fantastic!

compiled and runs straight away on 64bit fedora. I love it!

Great job, man.

Never for Mac, never for Mac...

huh? its open source and gtk, try to compile it.