Sep 16, 2024

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Game Code Comparison: ChatGPT o1 vs ChatGPT 4o

We compared the game code generated by ChatGPT 4o versus ChatGPT 5o by using the same prompt for both.

Source code

Source code is available on Github: Source code

Prompt for the game:

• Creating a simple pacman-like game using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• The game board should have white background
• the bricks that blocks the pacman
• A dog character moves around, controlled by keyboard's arrow keys. Use a small image "dog.webp" to represent it.
• Basic walls and apples for Pac-Man to "eat." Use a small image "apple.webp" to represent the apples.
• Adjust the size of the images to be correct.
• Simple keyboard controls for movement.
• Apples show up randomly at the beginning of the game, and may intermittenly show up in the middle of the game
• Pac-Man keeps going forward. When it hits a wall it stops. When it hits an apple, the apple disappears
• Make the moving animation smooth
• Make the apple disappearance animation smooth

Prompt for the dog:

• create a 3d soft style cartoon image of a dog with white background.

Prompt for the apple:

• create a 3d soft style cartoon image of an apple with white background.