This paper presents a new AI challenge, the Tales of Tribute AI Competition (TOTAIC), based on a two-player deck-building card game released with the High Isle chapter of The Elder Scrolls Online. Currently, there is no other AI competition covering Collectible Card Games (CCG) genre, and there has never been one that targets a deck-building game. Thus, apart from usual CCG-related obstacles to overcome, like randomness, hidden information, and large branching factor, the successful approach additionally requires long-term planning and versatility. The game can be tackled with multiple approaches, including classic adversarial search, single-player planning, and Neural Networks-based algorithms. This paper introduces the competition framework, describes the rules of the game, and presents the results of a tournament between sample AI agents. The first edition of TOTAIC is hosted at the IEEE Conference on Games 2023.

本文介绍了一项基于《上古卷轴》中的双人卡牌游戏的AI挑战赛，目标在于开发应对随机性、信息不对称、策略多样等多种挑战的AI算法，该比赛旨在鼓励使用经典对抗搜索、单人策略规划和神经网络等多种算法进行游戏策略实现，是CCG领域中首次针对卡组构筑的AI挑战赛。

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