A collection of OpenAI Gym environments for the collectible card game Legends of Code and Magic (LOCM).
Python 3.6+ is required.
git clone https://github.com/ronaldosvieira/gym-locm.git
cd gym-locm
pip install -e .
import gym
import gym_locm
env = gym.make('LOCM-XXX-vX')
done = False
while not done:
action = ... # Your agent code here
obs, reward, done, _ = env.step(action)
env.render()A match of LOCM has two phases: the deck-building phase, where the players build their decks, and the battle phase, where the playing actually occurs. In LOCM 1.2, the deck-building phase was called draft phase. In LOCM 1.5, it was called constructed phase.
In all environments, by default, a reward of 1 is given if the controlled player wins the battle phase, and -1 otherwise. There are no draws in LOCM.
env = gym.make("LOCM-constructed-v0")The constructed phase is played. Players choose from a card from a card pool of 120 procedurally generated cards for a total of 30 turns. Players can pick the same card twice, and the card pool is the same for both players. They don't know each other's choices. A default (configurable) policy is used in the battle phase.
State: a 120 x 16 matrix (17 features from each of the 120 cards).
Actions: 0-119 (representing the index of the card to be chosen).
env = gym.make("LOCM-draft-v0")The draft phase is played. Players alternately choose a card between three randomly sampled cards (without replacement) from LOCM 1.2's card pool for a total of 30 turns. The three cards from each turn are the same for both players, and they don't know each other's choices. A default (configurable) policy is used in the battle phase.
State: a 3 x 16 matrix (16 features from each of the 3 cards).
Actions: 0-2 (chooses first, second or third card).
env = gym.make("LOCM-battle-v0", version="1.5")env = gym.make("LOCM-battle-v0", version="1.2")The battle phase is played. A default (configurable) policy is used in the draft
phase. The parameter version (default 1.5) can be used to determine which set
of rules will be used.
State: a vector with 3 x 20 + 8 values (16 features from each of the 20 possible cards plus 4 features from each player).
Actions: 0-144 (pass, summon, use and attack with all possible origins and targets).
Click to see all actions
0: PASS
1: SUMMON (card at index 0 of player's hand) 0
2: SUMMON (card at index 0 of player's hand) 1
3: SUMMON (card at index 1 of player's hand) 0
4: SUMMON (card at index 1 of player's hand) 1
5: SUMMON (card at index 2 of player's hand) 0
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16: SUMMON (card at index 7 of player's hand) 1
17: USE (card at index 0 of player's hand) -1
18: USE (card at index 0 of player's hand) (1st creature at player's lane 0)
19: USE (card at index 0 of player's hand) (2nd creature at player's lane 0)
20: USE (card at index 0 of player's hand) (3rd creature at player's lane 0)
21: USE (card at index 0 of player's hand) (1st creature at player's lane 1)
22: USE (card at index 0 of player's hand) (2nd creature at player's lane 1)
23: USE (card at index 0 of player's hand) (3rd creature at player's lane 1)
24: USE (card at index 0 of player's hand) (1st creature at opponent's lane 0)
25: USE (card at index 0 of player's hand) (2nd creature at opponent's lane 0)
26: USE (card at index 0 of player's hand) (3rd creature at opponent's lane 0)
27: USE (card at index 0 of player's hand) (1st creature at opponent's lane 1)
28: USE (card at index 0 of player's hand) (2nd creature at opponent's lane 1)
29: USE (card at index 0 of player's hand) (3rd creature at opponent's lane 1)
30: USE (card at index 1 of player's hand) -1
31: USE (card at index 1 of player's hand) (1st creature at player's lane 0)
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120: USE (card at index 7 of player's hand) (3rd creature at opponent's lane 1)
121: ATTACK (1st creature at player's lane 0) -1
122: ATTACK (1st creature at player's lane 0) (1st creature at opponent's lane 0)
123: ATTACK (1st creature at player's lane 0) (2nd creature at opponent's lane 0)
124: ATTACK (1st creature at player's lane 0) (3rd creature at opponent's lane 0)
125: ATTACK (2nd creature at player's lane 0) -1
126: ATTACK (2nd creature at player's lane 0) (1st creature at opponent's lane 0)
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133: ATTACK (1st creature at player's lane 1) -1
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144: ATTACK (3rd creature at player's lane 1) (3rd creature at opponent's lane 0)
env = gym.make("LOCM-draft-2p-v0")
env = gym.make("LOCM-constructed-2p-v0")
env = gym.make("LOCM-battle-2p-v0")Both players are controlled alternately. A reward of 1 is given if the first player wins, and -1 otherwise.
Some additional options can be configured at env creation time. These are:
This option determines the random seed to be used by the environment. In a match,
the random seed will be used to generate card choices for each draft turn and to
shuffle both players' deck at the beginning of the battle. To increase reproducibility,
every time the env is reset, its random state is reset, and seed + 1 is used as seed.
Usage: env = gym.make('LOCM-XXX-vX', seed=42), default: None.
By default, random draft and battle agents are used in the roles not controlled by the user (e.g. if it's a single-player draft env, a random agent drafts for the opponent player, and random agents battles for both players). To specify different agents for these roles, use, for instance:
env = gym.make('LOCM-draft-XXX-vX', draft_agent=RandomDraftAgent(),
battle_agents=(RandomBattleAgents(), RandomBattleAgents()))env = gym.make('LOCM-constructed-XXX-vX', draft_agent=RandomConstructedAgent(),
battle_agents=(RandomBattleAgents(), RandomBattleAgents()))env = gym.make('LOCM-battle-XXX-vX', version="1.5", battle_agent=RandomBattleAgent(),
deck_building_agents=(RandomConstructedAgents(), RandomConstructedAgents()))env = gym.make('LOCM-battle-XXX-vX', version="1.2", battle_agent=RandomBattleAgent(),
deck_building_agents=(RandomDraftAgents(), RandomDraftAgents()))Trying to specify agents for roles you control will result in an error.
Click to see all available agents
Draft agents:
PassDraftAgent: always passes the turn (this is equivalent to always choosing the first card).RandomDraftAgent: drafts at random.RuleBasedDraftAgent: drafts like Baseline1 from the Strategy Card Game AI competition.MaxAttackDraftAgent: drafts like Baseline2 from the Strategy Card Game AI competition.IceboxDraftAgent: drafts using the card ranking created by CodinGame's user Icebox.ClosetAIDraftAgent: drafts using the card ranking created by CodinGame's user ClosetAI.UJI1DraftAgent: drafts like UJIAgent1 from the Strategy Card Game AI competition.UJI2DraftAgent: drafts like UJIAgent2 from the Strategy Card Game AI competition.CoacDraftAgent: drafts like Coac from the Strategy Card Game AI competitions pre-2020.NativeDraftAgent: drafts like an AI player developed for the original LOCM engine, whose execution command is passed in the constructor (e.g.NativeDraftAgent('python3 player.py')).
Constructed agents:
PassConstructedAgent: always passes the turn (this is equivalent to always choosing the first valid card).RandomConstructedAgent: chooses any valid card at random.InspiraiConstructedAgent: constructs like Inspirai from the Strategy Card Game AI competition.
Battle agents:
PassBattleAgent: always passes the turn.RandomBattleAgent: chooses any valid action at random (including passing the turn).RuleBasedBattleAgent: battles like Baseline1 from the Strategy Card Game AI competition.MaxAttackBattleAgent: battles like Baseline2 from the Strategy Card Game AI competition.GreedyBattleAgent: battles like Greedy from Kowalski and Miernik's paper [1].NativeDraftAgent: battles like an AI player developed for the original LOCM engine, whose execution command is passed in the constructor (e.g.NativeBattleAgent('python3 player.py')).
If NativeDraftAgent/NativeConstructed and NativeBattleAgent are going to be used to represent the same player, consider using a single NativeAgent object instead, and passing it as draft and battle agent.
This option determines whether consider green, red and blue item cards in the game. If set to false, item cards will not be available to draft, and USE actions will not be present on battle envs' action space (ATTACK action codes will start at 17).
Usage: env = gym.make('LOCM-XXX-vX', items=False), default: True.
This option determines whether the state of draft envs includes the previously drafted cards alongside the current card alternatives. If set to true, the state shape of a draft env changes from a 3 x 16 matrix to a 33 x 16 matrix, where the 30 first rows hold the up to 30 cards drafted in the past turns. The card slots of current and future picks are filled with zeros.
Usage: env = gym.make('LOCM-draft-XXX-vX', use_draft_history=True), default: False.
This option determines whether the cards in the draft's state matrix will be sorted by mana cost in ascending order. This virtually reduces the state space, as every possible permutation of three specific cards will result in a single state matrix.
Usage: env = gym.make('LOCM-draft-XXX-vX', sort_cards=True), default: False.
This option determines the amount of draft/constructed turns that will happen, and, therefore,
the size of the decks built in the deck building phase. If use_draft_history is True, the
state representation in the draft phase will change to accommodate the longer or shorter history
of past picks.
Usage: env = gym.make('LOCM-XXX-vX', n=20), default: 30
This option determines the amount of cards that will be presented to the players on every draft/constructed turn. The state representation and the set of actions in the draft/construct phase will change to accommodate the amount of cards options per turn.
Usage: env = gym.make('LOCM-XXX-vX', k=5), default: 120 for LOCM 1.5 and 3 for LOCM 1.2
We provide a command-line interface (CLI) to run LOCM matches. It is available as soon as the repository is installed. Some basic use cases are listed below.
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Run 1000 matches of LOCM 1.2 in parallel with 4 processes of the Icebox draft agent versus the Coac draft agent, using random actions in the battle:
locm-runner --p1-deck-building icebox --p1-battle random \ --p2-deck-building coac --p2-battle random \ --games 1000 --version=1.2 --processes 4 -
Run 1000 matches of LOCM 1.5 of a fully random player against a player developed for the original engine, and with a specific random seed:
locm-runner --p1-deck-building random --p1-battle random \ --p2-path "python /path/to/agent.py" \ --games 1000 --version=1.5 --seed 42
Use locm-runner -h to see all the available parameters.
We provide scripts to train deep reinforcement learning draft agents as described in [2] and [3]. Further instructions are available in the README.md file in the experiments package.
To install the dependencies necessary to run the scripts, install the repository with
pip install -e .['legacy-experiments']We also provide a collection of draft agents trained with deep reinforcement learning, and a script to use them in the LOCM's original engine. Further details on these agents and instructions for the script are available in the README.md in the trained_models package. The use of these draft agents with the Runner script is not implemented yet.
We provide scripts to train deep reinforcement learning battle agents as described in [4] and in [5]. Further instructions are available in the README.md file in the experiments/papers/sbgames-2022 and experiments/papers/entcom-2023 packages.
To install the dependencies necessary to run the scripts, install the repository with
pip install -e .['experiments']-
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