THELEMA Alternatives

THELEMA reviews and mentions

• The Computers Are Getting Better at Writing
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 May 2021

  Representing costs in a meaningful manner is a constant problem in every M:tG generator I've seen.

  The problems I highlight above are not with grammaticality, which is certainly a big step forward with respect to the past. But many of the abilities still don't make a lot of sense, or don't make sense to be on the same card, or have weird costs etc.

  My intuition is that it would take a lot more than language modelling to generate M:tG cards that make enough sense that it's more fun to generate them than create them yourself. I think it would be necessary to have background knowledge of the game, at least its rules, if not some concept of a metagame.

  Also, I note that the new online version of the game is capable of parsing cads as scripts in a programming language using a hand-crafted grammar rather than a machine-learned model [4] [5]. So it seems to me that the state-of-the-art for M:tG language modelling is still a hand-crafted grammar.

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  [1] https://github.com/stassa/Gleemin - unfortunately, doesn't run anymore after multiple changes to Prolog interepreters used to create and then port the project over.

  [2] https://github.com/stassa/THELEMA - should work with older versions of Swi-Prolog, unfortunately not documented in the README.

  [3] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10994-020-05945-w - see Section 3.3 "Experiment 3: M:tG fragment".

  [4] https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/74hw1z/magic_aren...

  [5] https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/9kxid9/mtgadisper...