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Cross posting from another thread: 17 games fully or partially reversed and ported to the web by one very capable dude in a few weeks with frontier and open weight models. He also did this thing where he “spliced” different game concepts and turned WoW into an FPS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49652089
In case you mistake him for an “AI booster”, you should see this guy’s other posts, he is extremely critical of the AI frontier labs and Tech Bros and this whole AI bubble.
But he is also a very experienced game developer, and under his control the latest models have pulled off these crazy feats. What TFA is the analysis of a domain expert and what it means for the industry.
Just so you know, the other submission you linked here got killed (i.e. is not visible without showdead on).
Why was it killed? That sounds very interesting.
Does anybody have a link to it? I can't find it on the blog.
Everything to linkedin gets killed, apparently.
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=linkedin.com
They're all [dead] (you'll need "showdead" on in your profile).
Whoa TIL. Too much low-quality stuff being cross-posted from LinkedIn?
Lots of would-be business influencer types post (or posted? I've never paid much attention to it) on there. There are a number of other sites that are also auto-killed by the system. Sometimes those submissions will come back to life, but it has to be found by a mod or vouched for by enough users.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/georgzoeller_the-transformer-...
It works for me in an Incognito window, but YMMV.
Halo running in WASM at 120 FPS over a browser
https://x.com/mitchellhynes/status/2104658015605379094
I would like to know: has anyone actually played any of these games he's "modernised"? I would expect them to be filled to the brim with papercuts and, perhaps, rusty nails. LLMs are no doubt capable of translating code when it has a perfect, byte matching spec to validate aganst, which is essentially the most rigorous test harness it is possible to have. They don't even need to be good at it; they just need to be persistent, correcting one error after another for 24 hours a day to reach the destination.
However, I have not been impressed with their capability for gamedev beyond that. I do have a $200 codex sub, and I strive to use the full budget every week / every reset. Much of this usage is vomited into a trash bin exploring what works and what does not, and there is a lot more that does not work than does. The biggest benefit is that you can take your attention off something and have it work in the background, obviously, but the longer it goes working on something that does not have a 100% accurate test spec to adhere to, the more it goes off the rails no matter how much time I waste "harness engineering", with it notably contradicting concrete instructions as context size increases. Even on single, extremely targeted tasks, they are of limited value, with max reasoning often taking 10~30 minutes to complete a task I could do in minutes by hand, with significantly worse and less maintainable code, and often introducing edge case bugs or unusable UI.
I would not be surprised if this is just yet another showcase that looks impressive at surface level, as LLMs have been benchmaxxed to do, but falls apart as soon as you look behind the facade. That said, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong and you think these modernisations are masterpieces. I don't really have any desire to play them myself, but maybe I'm underestmating them.