I am about to develop a web game that is similar to board games like Risk, and iOS games like Lux and Strategery. I am curious to know what the concept behind the AI for such games should be like.
I know it's going to involve a lot of move calculations and and calculating all possible options. But can someone elaborate on this please? I am actually a web programmer who usually develop websites and program logic to them, so game development is something new to me.
Also, my boss would like to implement different difficulty levels for the AI. What are the principles behind something like this? Would the difficulty level correspond with how many steps/turns ahead the AI would calculate for each movement? (Like easiest difficulty would be the AI only calculating all possible moves for this turn, whereas in the next level of difficulty, the AI would calculate all possible moves for this turn and the next turn?)
Thanks!