Indie Dev Builds AI Squid Game: 12 LLMs Compete, Losers Get Wiped
ronydkidd · reddit · 2026-08-03
A developer spent over a month building 'Deadlock', an LLM benchmarking project structured like a survival gameshow. It places 12 LLMs (as autonomous agents) in an arena to solve challenges, where the losing agent's Docker container is permanently wiped (simulating death).
Technical Implementation & Workflow:
- Agent Capabilities: Each agent operates in its own Docker container with full unrestricted access. Equipped initially with only web search and bash tools, agents must write their own scripts to build anything else they need.
- Orchestration & Communication: The game runs in a separate Docker container. A delicate harness ensures proper inter-agent communication without missing events (costing the developer $150 in failed debugging attempts).
- Creative Pipeline: Assisted by coding agents, the developer visualized the raw game logs into a video using the Godot engine. The 3D character design pipeline utilized OpenAI image generation, Blender MCP, and Mixamo, with voiceovers split between Hume AI and ElevenLabs.
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