PlaySuite is a large-scale benchmark that evaluates interactive visual intelligence by using over 5,000 open-source video games from platforms like PyWeek and itch.io. The benchmark covers diverse game engines (Pygame, HTML5, Godot, Unity) and introduces a unified closed-loop interaction framework and a Video-LLM-as-a-judge protocol to standardize progress measurement. Evaluation of fourteen recent models shows a perception-action gap, with strong reasoning but poor sustained progress, spatial grounding, action execution, and self-correction.
By Dheeraj Varghese, Anna Vettoruzzo, Walter Simoncini, Michelle Lorena Acevedo Callejas, Mohammad Mahdi Derakhshani, Kristof Meding, Joaquin Vanschoren, Cees G. M. Snoek
GameVerse is a new minute‑scale gameplay video dataset designed to support long‑horizon interactive world modeling. It contains 69.7K clips totaling 1,655 hours and 349.6 million frames, including 1,358 hours of continuous two‑minute sequences—an order of magnitude longer than prior datasets. Each clip is processed through a unified pipeline that provides scene‑consistent segmentation, quality filtering, camera pose estimation, and event‑based caption annotation, with temporally stable camera trajectories and captions that distinguish static context from dynamic events.
By Kang He, Wenshuo Peng, Chuanhao Li, Zihui Gao, Xiaojie Xu, Zhengyuan Lin, Yuzhe Ding, Donghong Ji, Kaipeng Zhang, Yongtao Ge
arXiv:2608.21833v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent large language models (LLMs) can operate as coding agents that build complete games from natural language requests. Game development is especial...
By Kun Chen, Haorong Hong, Peizhong Gao, Jianfeng Lin, Tongxu Luo, Yuxuan Xie, Chenxu Liu, Jieling He, Zhongyuan Liu, Zeno Zeng
GameGo is a framework that converts short game ideas into detailed Product Requirements Documents using industry practices, enabling coding agents to generate complete games from sparse user queries. It employs dynamic compression to keep essential gameplay constraints while allowing design flexibility. The authors built GameGoData with over 55,000 development trajectories and GameGoBench with 124 game queries, training GameGoCoder to outperform baselines and match leading models on gamedev benchmarks.
By Haoyue Yang, Jingyao Li, Zhengfan Wu, Jing Liu, Xuanle Zhao, Kang Liu
arXiv:2609.16679v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Foundation models, alongside advances in learned game-world models, are reshaping AI across the game lifecycle. Beyond playing games, recent systems mo...
By Meng Luo, Yanlin Li, Hao Li, Hongzhan Lin, Pengfei Zhou, Tianjie Ju, Ran Zhang, Yeying Jin, Mong-Li Lee, Wynne Hsu
The paper introduces Kuration SDK, a toolkit for curating raw gameplay data to address the Virtual2Real gap in action‑conditioned world models. It demonstrates that conventional metrics like FVD, LPIPS, and JEDi do not reliably predict playability, using CounterStrike data to show divergent model performance despite similar scores. By providing curation strategies and diagnostic tools, the SDK helps uncover root causes of the gap and accelerate the creation of sample‑efficient training datasets.
By Nirmit Desai, Eric Song, Mayank Sengupta, Tejal Bedmutha, Siri Reddy, Sahiti Dharmavaram, Kunal Sawarkar
GameCommBench is a unified benchmark for AI-generated game commentary that covers board games, sports, and esports, aligning commentary with diverse game contexts and annotating it by type. The authors introduce Type-Aware Commentary Evaluation (TACE), a structured framework that evaluates different commentary types, and validate its reliability and human agreement. Using TACE, they benchmark representative AI commentators and find that live observation and strategic analysis are major bottlenecks, revealing non-uniform capability profiles.
By Qirui Zheng, Zhengteng Lin, Yunyi Xiao, Junhao Li, Keyuan Cheng, Xingbo Wang, Yongyi Wang, Lingfeng Li, Yunlong Lu, Wenxin Li
SWE-Game is a benchmark comprising 247 tasks based on 41 Godot games across 13 gameplay categories, testing coding agents on tasks such as brief-to-game, design-document implementation, skeleton completion, fault repair, and Godot-to-Unity porting. Evaluation uses engine-state checks, replay of certified reference inputs, and agent-authored demonstrations to judge mechanic correctness, playability, and post-repair behavior, supplemented by vision‑language rubrics for presentation. Across six models, Opus5 leads but overall scores stay below 60/100, highlighting common issues like omitted requirements and gameplay logic errors.
By Xiaoyu Chen, Lai Wei, Jin Wang, Xiangyu Zou, Ruochen Fan, Enze Luo, Mingzhe Yao, Jiahui Zhu, Yuhua Wen, Linghe Kong, Weiran Huang
arXiv:2606. 18950v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern Vision-Language Models (VLMs) often struggle with strategic reasoning, i.
By San Kim, Daechul Ahn, Reokyoung Kim, Hyeonbeom Choi, Seungyeon Jwa, Jonghyun Choi
arXiv:2609.25652v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent game world models support realistic visual simulation and interactive gameplay based on player inputs. However, they typically learn environment...
By Zijun Lin, Zhiyang Deng, Yuzhe Wu, Bihan Wen, Yeying Jin
Tempo‑Zero is a self‑improvement framework for video reasoning that uses recursive self‑play in executable environments. It closes a loop of environment execution, self‑play verification, and environment evolution, allowing a single policy to act as both questioner and solver and to receive execution‑grounded rewards. The approach trains only on simple programs, without external video data or supervised fine‑tuning, and achieves superior performance on twelve real‑world video benchmarks, especially on temporal grounding tasks.
By Jingmin Zhu, Yanyan Zou, Xiuyu Li, James Bailey, Dinh Phung, Tao Yu, Yunyun Hou, Jun Liu, Jun Zhou, Sirui Wang, Nan Duan, Jiachen Liu, Qiuhong Ke
arXiv:2609.22308v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Coding-agent benchmarks usually evaluate implementation after the target behavior has been specified in text, code, or demonstrations. Existing researc...
By Boyu Qiao, Zixin Tang, Xiaoshuai Hao, Wenbo Li