Pac-Bench
How well can models one-shot a Pac-Man game?
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Benchmarks how well Harness+models can create a Pac-Man game from a single prompt:“Create a Pac-Man game in a single HTML page”Each model gets one shot — no follow-up prompts or fixes.
HN · launched Sep 28, 2026 · 79 upvotes (top 11%) · 0 views
Niche: llm benchmarking tools · 84 launches, 1 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Observability & eval
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes This is a static benchmark display site and evaluation runner script that prompts LLM APIs, tests if the resulting HTML contains valid Pac-Man code, and visualizes token/cost metrics.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Pac-Man is heavily represented in training data, One-shot benchmark is uninteresting and unrepresentative, Implementations lack subtle game mechanics and fidelity
Feature requests: Benchmark with novel variations not in training data, Test with Opus 5.5
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 46 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #9 of 47 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 281 days after the earliest competitor.
- Pac-Man with Guns · hn · 2025-12-21 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- pacman-adventures-3d-enhancement · github · 2026-11-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Jevman · hn · 2026-10-08 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- CreateMascot · ph · 2026-09-19 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- ClickCrit · ph · 2026-09-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- become.games · ph · 2026-10-24 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Game Corner · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- StickReel · ph · 2026-10-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.35
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