SORA-MAN: AI Pac-Man Eats Nvidia Chips, Ghosts Are Claude and Grok
dagerika · reddit · 2026-09-25
A developer used Opus 5.5 and Astra to build SORA-MAN, an AI parody of Pac-Man: you eat Nvidia chips while the four ghosts are Claude, Muse, Grok, and Gemini — a tribute to the shuttered Sora. The game offers four modes (a faithful classic recreation, a Remix mode with themed power-ups, endless Sunset, and battle-royale Versus) plus local four-player multiplayer, is playable right in the browser, and the repo is open source.
Build process and lessons:
- Started with a one-shot, art-free arcade-faithful recreation, then iteratively reskinned it: sound effects synthesized with jfxr, art generated with GPT Image 2.5 and translated into code by Astra to shape the characters
- A major refactor added registries and hooks to the engine for rule sets, power-ups, and ghost brains, so new modes required no changes to the classic rules
- Practical takeaways: snapshot before every change (33 backups total); demand results and evidence from agents (e.g., "100 games proving the bots never deadlock") rather than raw code; multiplayer/bot bugs only surfaced in long headless simulations
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