Week 8

     The complexity of a game state matters in games. It matters in games such as Nim, to a less complex game such as Jenga where your goal is to stack pieces of wood upon one another and then remove them piece by piece. I feel as if the complexity of a game would make it fun because you have to think about what you are doing. There are many different games that make you think in other ways. Differences between board games or card games. But you are always thinking ahead in all of games and different scenerios so you will have to understand the complexities of a game. For poker players maybe they think of it as negatively because they dont know the cards being dealt next are. For black jack players they understand that there is a simple algorithm to count cards..."maybe not so simple, but for players that can understand and master counting cards" so they with think of that as an advantage, they understand the variables that they are working with. Other games maybe Monopoly or even computer games such as Age of the Empires or their many other sequels Age of Mythology and the expansion pack but you have many things to think about while you are playing these games and you must have strategy because you have opportunity costs you must think of and that goes with the complexity of a game. Especially when you are playing against a computer, it is constantly thinking and planning ahead looking at different variations of of mooves. The computer is thinking of many moves and they can also be manipulated in a certain way. Look at computer games, Doom, when the mosters come and attack you constantly and you have to fight them off but there are levels of difficulty and those levels are based on the game state and its system of producing these different variables. So computers in a sense can dominate a game or can loose. The computer on Jeopardy Watson thinks like a person the way it filters peoples content through its "brain" he has a very complex way of choosing an answer like a human, it is A.I that is going to be the future, just like in the movie A.I, but Watson can still answer questions wrong. He will win a lot so for the computer it is good or well the creators because they rake in the caash from Jeopardy, so if you are trying to win a game the computer can be another variable that comes into play and you will have to over come it, all of the contestants on Jeopardy want to beat the computer and win some money so the computer negatively impacts them if they win. Thats it for today guys see you soon.