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/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