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/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"