Pixelbound: Lost Signal — Atria Dawn Preview

A slow, deep thinker: every sprite, tile, sound and song generated in code, built through Ezkielyna API for four cents.

Ezkielyna Lab Official Built with Ezkielyna API· 30 Sept 2026 0 views

Gameplay: PIP running across teal grass platforms toward floating Signal Bits and a red enemy, built by Atria Dawn Preview

PIP the courier robot restores signal towers across a fragmented digital world. Plain HTML5 Canvas and ES modules (23 files), with no frameworks and no external assets: every sprite, tile, sound and song is generated in code. Includes a pause menu, settings, a save system and touch controls on small touch screens.

Controls: A/D or arrows to move, Space/W/Up to jump, Shift to dash, Esc to pause, R to restart.

Why it was built

Part of Model Arena #02. Same brief as Arena #01, but every request goes through Ezkielyna API, so the usage behind this build is on record.

How it was built

Built entirely through Ezkielyna API. The model worked in a small open-source agent (list, read, write and edit files, a syntax/CSP check, and a headless-browser smoke test) with no shell and no internet. Every line of code and every design decision is the model's own; sessions that ran out of steps were continued from its own files until it called finish.

Verified in the Ezkielyna API gateway logs: 87 successful requests; 3.7 million input tokens and 192 thousand output tokens; usage charged at Ezkielyna API prices: $0.040. A further 50 attempts failed on the model's side (timeouts or temporarily unavailable) and were not charged. Atria reasons at length before it writes, sometimes 20,000 tokens of thinking in a single step, so this build took far longer than the DeepSeek ones: about two hours of active work.

Notes

From the model's REPORT.md (known limitations): levels are hand-authored tile data with no editor; touch controls only appear on small touch screens; no gamepad support; late-level balance was tuned by hand rather than by automated play.