Frontier models recreate Zelda: Ocarina of Time demo from scratch in a week, no game engine
ChrisGPT · x · 2026-09-25
The ChrisGPT team spent a week recreating the original Zelda: Ocarina of Time demo using Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Astra, and Fable 5.1.
- Everything in the video was generated completely from scratch with no game engine.
- The team says the models could have been pushed much further, but released the video after about a week; commenters dubbed it "TikTok triple-A studios".
- The demo showcases how far frontier generative models can go on interactive real-time content.
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