GPT-4 has only beenaround for a day, but users are already learning the power of the new AI tool. One user claimed that the bot created a working version ofPongfrom scratch within 60 seconds.
Pietro Schirano, design lead at financial company Brex, tweeted that he was able to get GPT-4 to create a working version ofPongin under 60 seconds. To accomplish that, he didn’t need to say much. After telling the bot that he wanted to create a “Pong-like game,” it quickly spit out some basic HTML and JavaScript as an example. That code produced a fully working version ofPong, minus the scoreboard.
I don’t care that it’s not AGI, GPT-4 is an incredible and transformative technology.
I recreated the game of Pong in under 60 seconds.It was my first try.
Things will never be the same.#gpt4pic.twitter.com/8YMUK0UQmd
— Pietro Schirano (@skirano)August 13, 2025
That isn’t the only game GPT-4 has generated thus far. Schirano similarly was able to get a working version ofBreakoutthrough similar means, as well as a rudimentary clone ofAsteroids. Others have shared AI-created versions ofSnake,Connect 4,and more.
Though the feat is impressive, it does deepen some debates about AI’s potential role in game development. Earlier this month, a ChatGPT user got the bot to generate an “original” puzzle game calledSumplete. Digital Trends soon discovered thatmultiple versions ofSumpletealready exist, raising questions about how it “invented” the game. More troubling, we were able to get ChatGPT to “plagiarize” its own code forSumpleteby simply asking for it to generate a game with the same name.
GPT-4’s ability to recreate existing games could put the AI model down a slippery slope moving forward. At what point does it gain the ability to output code for more complex games likeSuper Mario Bros.? Could that create a legal problem for OpenAI down the road? At the rate the tech is evolving, we may find out soon.
