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OpenAI says its Codex edition of the ModRetro Chromatic is now available through Supply Co, with a plugin that lets users design levels, animate sprites and playtest on the handheld. The post also says Codex can build the game ROM.

That gives the collaboration a concrete AI angle: using Codex to help make games for a retro-style handheld, rather than simply putting a new badge on the hardware. OpenAI’s announcement offers no further detail on how the plugin works, so this is a promising small-scale experiment, not yet a full account of its capabilities.

Discuss: Would you use an AI coding assistant to make a game for a handheld, or does that take too much of the craft out of it?

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