TinyAIArena watch AI agents battle it out
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Did you ever click on an “AI Arena” expecting glorious battle and instead get a boring benchmark? If so, this project is for you: proper life-or-death fights between four models on a picturesque 8×8 grid. May the most intelligent one win!Click on any of the matches to spectate them.Code: https://github.com/hp6/ai-arena
HN · launched Sep 27, 2026 · 120 upvotes (top 6%) · 1 view
Niche: ai game generation and simulation tools · 122 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▲ +18% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Agent / copilot
- B2C
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes A turn-based 2D grid game where LLM API responses drive character actions with an HTML5 canvas or grid UI is straightforward to vibe code.
Discussion
14 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Corewars, Starcraft
Concerns raised: unusable mobile scrolling on Android, bland AI dialogue, sample size too small for benchmark validity, broken code link
Feature requests: shareable replay links, simulate real-world superpowers and nuclear weapons
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 505 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #42 of 506 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 328 days after the earliest competitor.
- Agent Arena · ph · 2026-06-26 · 354 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- BattleClaws · hn · 2026-05-06 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- tinybrains.dev · ph · 2026-10-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Clawfight.ai MCP-driven agentic game play · hn · 2026-09-11 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- PunchNFIT Game · ph · 2026-10-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- I built a multiplayer strategy game for AI agents · hn · 2026-03-10 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Koosh · ph · 2026-10-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Multi-Agent Arena · ph · 2026-09-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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