Discoveries: Forge [FOSS Magic: The Gathering game/rules engine]

Look, look, I am internet famous now, a streamer mentioned me live on stream :D

I can understand feeling a bit weird at first with this being essentially a clone of a proprietary franchise - but the underlying engine is indeed true FOSS as you pointed out (as are, as far as I know, sound, music and the adventure mode art), and the engine has some really impressive stuff. What impresses me the most is the AI. Yeah, it sometimes makes stupid mistakes, it often overvalues or undervalues cards, doesn't always do the correct move..... but the fact it can dynamically handle basically whatever cards you put into its hands, with as far as I know little to no deck-specific scripted AI, blows my mind. For a game as complex as MtG, having anything that can provide somewhat of a challenge with dynamically reacting to decks and cards is damn impressive.

Sad to hear the streaming issue still persists - here's hoping it will be settled soon. If this is really due to Meta AI scraping, as PoVoq speculated in chat there, that would indeed be frustrating.

If you do end up developing your own card set and overall game on basis of the engine - that might actually a project I'd love to contribute a bit to, health permitting. Java is actually a language I have some experience in, too. (But that is from many years ago.)