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Welcome to Of Mages and Magic - A Game of Spells and Sorcery!

Of Mages and Magic was created as part of a project for teaching programming to teenagers aged 14-15. Over the course of ten weeks (and just ten hours) we tasked our students to build artificial intelligences capable of fighting each other in a Pokemon style, turn based game.

Many of the competitors had a fleeting knowledge of programming, but were generally unfamiliar with the practice of writing software. We wanted to give them the chance to write real, functioning code based on their own design decisions. We also wanted them to be able to see the effects of their decisions. Hence this project was started to provide a scaffolding around which the students could build the fighters.

The project is still very much in development and we have yet to see how useful it is as a tool for education, but we have high hopes and are looking forward to reporting on a successful endeavour.