Pac-Bench
How well can models one-shot a Pac-Man game?
Details
- External ID
- 49885493
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Pac-Bench
- Website domain
- github.io
- Launched
- Sept. 28, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 78
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8963317384370016
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Oct. 1, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 1, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- pac-man game benchmark for evaluating ai models
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 13 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #4 of 14 (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
- CreateMascot · ph · 2026-09-19 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- ClickCrit · ph · 2026-09-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Game Corner · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- MeshEdit · ph · 2026-09-18 · 61 upvotes · similarity 0.33
- BudgetPixel AI Characters · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.32
- AIFashModel · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.32
- AnimGen · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.32
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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