RSIGame: Autonomous Agentic Game Development with Recursive Self-improvement
RSIGame uses recursive self-improvement with local and global loops to autonomously refine generated games, surpassing one-shot GPT-5.5 scores while cutting generation tokens by 11x.
Published Sep 30, 2026▲ 91 on Hugging FaceCode ★ 125arXiv ↗
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RSIGame delivers striking autonomous gains, with recursive loops and experience internalization letting smaller models surpass larger one-shot scores at 11x lower cost; yet synthetic benchmarks and self-training leave generalization, real bugs, and saturation mechanics unverified.
Abstract
Recent advances in large language models have made automatic game generation increasingly feasible, yet reliably improving generated games beyond a playable version remains challenging. Naive iterative refinement can easily overfit a small set of test cases, producing fragile games with unresolved bugs, missing behaviors, and poor generalization to broader player interactions. We introduce RSIGame, an autonomous agentic game development framework with recursive self-improvement. RSIGame organizes development into complementary local and global loops. Concretely, a local explore-diagnose-improve loop broadly explores the executable game, diagnoses and prioritizes discovered issues, and performs evidence-grounded revision, where an evolving checklist continually accumulates new testing and improvement guidance. A global loop tracks overall quality, preserves the best checkpoint, and detects saturation or regression over long-horizon development. Beyond test-time improvement, RSIGame further internalizes successful development experience into the generator through training. Across 140 GameCraft-Bench tasks, two game engines, and five generators, RSIGame consistently improves game quality under matched development budgets. Notably, experience internalization enables Qwen3.8-27B to reach 61.38 on Godot and 58.53 on Phaser, exceeding GPT-5.5 one-shot scores while reducing Qwen's generation tokens by 11 times.