
A first-person billiards game
A first-person 3D billiards game in the browser with real ball physics, a computer opponent and shot-by-shot replay, set in a photoreal pool bar.
- Kimi K3.1 Pro
- Opus 5.5
- Fable 5.1
- GPT-6 Astra
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Built by Pat
I test AI models by building things. Open each model’s version, copy the exact prompt, or watch the test.
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A first-person 3D billiards game in the browser with real ball physics, a computer opponent and shot-by-shot replay, set in a photoreal pool bar.

A playable car soccer game in the browser with photoreal graphics and a computer opponent.

A first-person horror game set in an endless Level 0, with the rooms modeled and lit in Blender and a creature that hunts by sound.

A complete browser dungeon crawler with a town, four random floors, loot, skills, saving and a boss the model has to beat itself.

A Tony Hawk's Pro Skater style game set in a recreation of the original Warehouse level, where every 3D model had to be built in Blender before it went into the game.

Three browser versions of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, with a brief covering track building, ride testing and paying guests.

A playable browser clone of Rainbow Road using Mario Kart 8's drift and item mechanics.

A browser shooter test on Nuketown, with GPT-6 Astra and Fable 5.1 building the same map.

Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra and GPT-5.6 Sol built browser kart racers from the same prompt.

A playable browser game of their choosing, with the obvious genres ruled out.

A playable browser game of their choosing.

A playable Odyssey game: blind the Cyclops, then escape under the rams.

The second heavy build was a playable archery game: draw a real force-draw curve, loose one arrow, and thread it through twelve aligned axe-heads, with swept collision so the fast arrow can't tunnel through the rings. Every bit of it built procedurally in code.

From “Kimi K3 Is Here! (Better Than Opus 4.8?)”

From “Kimi K3 Is Here! (Better Than Opus 4.8?)”

From “GPT 5.6 Sol: No-Hype Full Review & Testing”

From “GPT 5.6 Sol: No-Hype Full Review & Testing”

Pat Simmons gave AI models the same builds, three to five at a time, and logged every run's cost, tokens and minutes. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash cost as little as $1.00 a build and Fable 5.1 as much as $592.37, and the two cheapest models placed low in the blind rankings. The page also lists every model's API price and the main plans, checked November 10, 2026.

Fable 5.2 costs twice as much per token as Opus 5.5. We gave both the same email thread, 48-page report, messy contact list, slide deck and small build. Three jobs were a tie, Fable won two on details, and it cost about twice as much to get there.

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I put Google's new frontier model through four hard builds against Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra.

Turns a plain-English video idea into a ready-to-paste prompt for the Seedance 2.0 video model.

Lets Claude Code build and play 3D cities in Unreal Engine 5.8 through the official Unreal MCP plugin.
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