I am currently working on something called TG-Engine which is a no-code web app for making TG-16 Shmups (like Shmoop & Sk1b) and hopefully in the future for other genres like pinball and other top-down genres like Bomberman and Action RPGs (Ys, Dungeon Explorer, etc)
For some reason people keep finding this page (this is my prototypes account), so I'm always sad to see people downloading the unfinished version of this. I have no idea how people find things online.
Let me know how you got here if you get the chance, and follow either of my accounts for more of this stuff! Ty!!
The version on this page is preserved (because I like the background art!), but I strongly advise that you use the .pce file on that linked page as it is much more complete than the files here!
It's basically all I'm doing right now. I'm measuring AIs by "which console they can make a complete game for"
So far I'd say frontier models are very competent to pack a TG-16 or Genesis cart. I would not let one loose on Playstation or N64 yet and try to rig up something that fills the whole ROM space and feels "good."
So... many people are using many benchmarks to measure AI, this is the one I'm on right now. I think in October 2026 we are at "General AI 1992"
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Yeah nice! Please more vertical shmups for pce. We need it :) Thanks for this funny one.
The full version of this game lives over here: https://damijin.itch.io/yarn-patrol
I am currently working on something called TG-Engine which is a no-code web app for making TG-16 Shmups (like Shmoop & Sk1b) and hopefully in the future for other genres like pinball and other top-down genres like Bomberman and Action RPGs (Ys, Dungeon Explorer, etc)
For some reason people keep finding this page (this is my prototypes account), so I'm always sad to see people downloading the unfinished version of this. I have no idea how people find things online.
Let me know how you got here if you get the chance, and follow either of my accounts for more of this stuff! Ty!!
Version 1.0 of this game can be played and downloaded at: https://damijin.itch.io/yarn-patrol
The version on this page is preserved (because I like the background art!), but I strongly advise that you use the .pce file on that linked page as it is much more complete than the files here!
Nice, any further plans for ai games on retro consoles?
It's basically all I'm doing right now. I'm measuring AIs by "which console they can make a complete game for"
So far I'd say frontier models are very competent to pack a TG-16 or Genesis cart. I would not let one loose on Playstation or N64 yet and try to rig up something that fills the whole ROM space and feels "good."
So... many people are using many benchmarks to measure AI, this is the one I'm on right now. I think in October 2026 we are at "General AI 1992"