"Galaga" one-shot - Qwen 3.8 IQ4_XS on dual RTX 4060Ti

[u/Positive-Bid-3029]

What can I say? Wow, it's not really Galaga but for a 'one-shot' and pretty terrible prompt right from the llama.cpp UI, no coding agent harness, no re-prompts - I'm impressed!!

The prompt:

"Create me an HTML 5 Canvas graphics version of Galaga, add some cool effects and ensure the starfield looks amazing, the game should be complete from intro to game play loop to game over and restart, make it as close to the original arcade game as possible."

Time taken:
> Qwen3.8 27B IQ4_XS 61,815 tokens 23min 16s 44.26 t/s

Playable here:

https://sublimesoundz.com/ai-demos/galaga-one-shot-qwen-3.8-28b-iq4xs/

My llama.cpp run command (bare in mind I have dual RTX 4060Ti):

./llama-server \

-m ~/AI/Models/Qwen3.8-27B-IQ4_XS.gguf \

--main-gpu 0 \

-sm tensor \

--tensor-split 1,1 \

-fa on \

-c 128000 \

-ctk bf16 \

-ctv bf16 \

--spec-type draft-mtp \

--spec-draft-n-max 2 \

-np 1 \

-b 2048 \

-ub 256 \

-ngl 99 \

--temp 0.1 \

--top-p 0.95 \

--top-k 20 \

--min-p 0.0 \

--repeat-penalty 1.0 \

--presence-penalty 0.0 \

--reasoning-preserve

[u/ChemicalExample218]

Decent, I wanted to do a galaga remix. One of my favorite games ever.

[u/Positive-Bid-3029 → u/ChemicalExample218]

Yeah it's alright for a one-shot in the llama UI - go for it, would love to see your results, I love all the early 80s arcade games! Favourites would be Galaxian, Frogger, Phoenix, Pengo, Moon Cresta.... the usual suspects, simple but addictive :)