I've actually thought about the possibility of seeing if I could implement some kind of deep learning algorithm for my own game in regards to an enemy computer player because it would be interesting seeing if over multiple generations I could have a neural network playing against a player.

The problem with that is that the AI will be way better than the player. In general yes, you can use reinforced learning to train an AI to play vidya.
An old vid about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1eYniJ0Rnk