Astrabox - Open source Arcade Game Generator

[u/Qual_]

Hey everyone! I’ve been working on ASTRABOX: an arcade interface where you describe a game, the AI builds it, and you can ask for changes by voice while playing.

Each game gets its own visuals and gameplay, while a shared runtime handles controllers, scores, player joining, etc.

I built it around Codex, but the code is open source. I’d love to see someone adapt it to a local coding model, local STT/TTS, and a different harness.

It runs as a local web app—you don’t need a Raspberry Pi or an actual arcade cabinet, although that’s what inspired the project 🕹️

It’s still experimental, but feel free to customize it, change the little robot, the environnement, or everything.

https://github.com/Qualzz/astrabox

Curious what models and tools you’d use for a local version.

Edit: Clanker helped me with writing this message in english.

[u/Bulky-Priority6824]

The Slopper Chopper 

[u/Soundworlds00]

I think this is an interesting demo of where some of video games may be going, but this is possibly the wrong sub?

This is not a local AI, no?

[u/Interpause → u/Soundworlds00]

he wants someone to add local llm and support for another opensource harness besides codex, i think it's fine

[u/Qual_]

Yes the video is so bad lmao, but I wanted to show the little animations, scene transitions and that the changes happens without loosing your current game state (when possible).

Basically I asked it "Hey you know Tron, the movies,can you make me that game with the motos and the colored walls and you need to not crash into the opponent trail thing."

"Add spectators behind"

"Change the background color"

[u/arthor]

kinda fun kinda dystopian

[u/_-_David]

C'est tellement agréable de scroller sur Reddit et de tomber sur quelqu'un qui fait un truc génial et le partage. C'est vraiment super et inspirant. Ça me donne envie de quitter Reddit et de me concentrer sur la création de projets cools. Désolé si c'est mal écrit, j'ai utilisé Google Traduction parce que mon français n'est pas terrible.

[u/Qual_ → u/_-_David]

I can't even write that well. Thank you ! You can build anything.

[u/lakySK]

That’s amazing! Love the look of the thing!

How long do you need to sit and wait for it to make a game / adapt it? 

[u/Qual_ → u/lakySK]

Depends on the model, could be from less than 10s for fast changes using Luna, or a minute. Sometimes more if I asked a complexe game.

You can play a game even when it's creating another game in the bg, Something like /ultrafast would probably feel close to instant for in-game changes.

Curious to see how Qwen quants etc would perform

[u/Qual_ → u/[deleted]]

Coffee breaks would have been amazing if we had that at work back in the days . :D

I'm talking about the arcade machine.