Reason to Play

Behavioral and Brain Alignment Between Frontier LRMs and Human Game Learners.

Project page: https://botcs.github.io/reason-to-play/

Interactive Tools

• Replay Catalogue (catalogue.html) -- browse all human and LLM gameplay replays
• Replay Viewer (replay.html) -- step through replays with reasoning traces and full conversation history
• Play the Games (interactive-gameplay.html) -- try the VGDL games yourself in the browser

Open any .html file directly in a modern browser -- no server required.

Source Code

The source-code/ directory contains the LLM evaluation pipeline, VGDL game engine, system prompts, game definitions, and experiment sweep configurations. See source-code/README.md for details.

Acknowledgements

This project builds on the VGDL framework and codebase released by Cedric Colas et al. for "Language and Experience: A Computational Model of Social Learning in Complex Tasks". The Browser Game Interpreter (BGI) is a JavaScript re-implementation of the VGDL engine for interactive visualization and replay.

License

MIT License. See LICENSE for details.