Gradient Bang

Gradient Bang is one of those products that immediately makes you want to keep exploring. Super fun, witty and packed with interesting ideas around agents, voice, and dynamic UIs. Glad I got to contribute to it in a small way, awesome work by the team!

love this! Do you have future plans of launching more such games?

Was super interesting to work with the @Daily.co team on this. The use case goes way beyond gaming into complex enterprise workflows. 🚀Would love to read a deep dive into the subtopics you tackled - managing long-term context, dynamic UIs, and sub-agent orchestration. Will hit Claude on the repo logic in the meantime! 🤖💻

looks cool! Love that players can ship their own subagents into sandboxes. Curious how you keep the game balanced when some players can write tighter loops or throw way more compute at their corp ships than others?

Gradient Bang is built on Pipecat, the leading open-source Python framework for building real-time voice and multimodal agents. We're hosting a hackathon on May 30th at YC along with our friends at Cekura, NVIDIA, AWS, and Twilio. Come join us!https://events.ycombinator.com/HW0opxy78

Compared to narrative-first LLM games like AI Dungeon, how do you keep the world “authoritative” so agents can’t hallucinate outcomes—what’s your grounding strategy between free-form conversation and the actual game state/actions?

Most games give players fixed mechanics, while this feels almost unpredictable because the LLM itself shapes the experience dynamically.
Did designing around that uncertainty become the hardest part of building Gradient Bang?

Takes me back to the 90s!!Having worked with agents and particularly voice agents for the last 2 years, the craft behind this game is quite amazing. We ran 100s of simulations to test these agents and I have only 1 thing to say - If you haven't tried it yet, do now period

Launching together today makes Product Hunt even more exciting. Love the product it really caught my attention.Cheering for fellow makers today, and would love to support each other. Wishing you a fantastic launch 🚀

A multiplayer game driven by LLM prompts sounds like absolute chaos in the best way. How do you handle the latency issues that usually come with real-time LLM interactions?

Gradient Bang is a massively multiplayer, completely LLM-driven game. Come play Gradient Bang with us. See if you can catch me on the leaderboard.This whole thing started because I wanted to explore a bunch of things I’m currently obsessed with, in an application of non-trivial size, that felt both new and old at the same time.So … a retro-style space trading game built entirely around interacting with and managing multiple LLMs. Factorio, but instead of clicking, you talk to your ship AI and figure out how to make money, make friends, and make havoc for your enemies.Some of the things we’ve been thinking about as we hack on Gradient Bang:- Sub-agent orchestration- Managing very, very, very long LLM contexts, including episodic memory across user sessions- World events and large volumes of structured data input as part of human/agent conversations- Dynamic user interfaces, driven/created on the fly by LLMs- And, of course, voice as primary inputIf you’ve been building coding harnesses, or writing Open Claw agents, or doing pretty much anything that pushes the boundaries of AI-native development these days, you’re probably thinking about these things too!The game is entirely open source. So if you want to see how we built it, you can clone the repo and start asking Claude/Codex about the code. If you want to add a feature, submit a PR.New today, design your own corporation ship agents, run them in a Vercel Sandbox, and bring them into the game. Think you can make your pair trading loops faster? That's going to give you a pretty big advantage in the game. Want to run with unlimited corp ship compute using open source models? You can do that, now!See the Vercel Sandbox subagents starter repo here: https://github.com/pipecat-ai/gradient-bang/tree/main/deployment/vercel