Tiny whales in top hats: DeepSeek multi-agent pod reverse-engineers the Ballance game engine
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-29
Behind a whimsical AI illustration of "whale girls in top hats LARPing as hackers" lies a real DeepSeek Research Pod session: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (Max) running a multi-agent reverse-engineering of the Virtools 3.x engine formats (.nmo/.cmo/.tdb) behind the game Ballance.
- The lead agent independently verified that 812/812 CKBehaviorLinks satisfy delayInit == delayCount, that ordinal resolution beats fileid (812/812 vs 801/812), and proposed codifying the rule in a spec doc.
- It empirically validated the CKDataArray string-stride formula (affecting 19 arrays), hitting and self-debugging exit-code-1 failures along the way.
- The UI shows 202 steps in one turn, 49.6M tokens, and a 99% cache hit rate.
Half meme, half unofficial stress test of DeepSeek's agent orchestration and self-correction.
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