Introducing the Hearthstone-AI Competition
  The Hearthstone AI framework and competition motivates the development of
artificial intelligence agents that can play collectible card games. A special
feature of those games is the high variety of cards, which can be chosen by the
players to create their own decks. In contrast to simpler card games, the value
of many cards is determined by their possible synergies. The vast amount of
possible decks, the randomness of the game, as well as the restricted
information during the player's turn offer quite a hard challenge for the
development of game-playing agents. This short paper introduces the competition
framework and goes into more detail on the problems and challenges that need to
be faced during the development process.
