TEMPEST AI

TEMPEST 2k26 drops you into a neon-soaked holographic remake of the legendary tube shooter, where classic vector tunnels meet modern reinforcement learning. You pilot a glowing wireframe ship along the outer rim of 16 ever-shifting geometric tubes—circles, squares, infinity loops, spirals and more—while hostile forms surge upward from the void. Destroy them with precision fire, manage your hull and regenerating shields, and climb through escalating levels as the AI Neural Core watches, learns, and evolves in real time. Choose between pure AI Training (where a Q-learning agent explores, scores, and adapts via adjustable α, γ and ε parameters), Free Mode for manual level selection and human control, or Export Mode to run the agent through the full original shape set and download its performance logs.

The interface is pure cyber-arcade: a left-side combat HUD tracks level, hostiles, score, hull and shield bars, while the right-side AI dashboard displays live episode stats, rewards and learning metrics. Bottom tape-deck controls let you play, pause, reset, adjust simulation speed, dial FX intensity from minimal to full bloom-and-particle overload, export data or go fullscreen. Movement is simple (A/D or arrows to slide around the tube, Space/W to fire), yet every decision feeds the neural core—making TEMPEST AI 2k26 both a faithful, high-fidelity love letter to the 1981 original and an interactive playground for watching artificial intelligence master the art of tunnel warfare.

Open Sourced, here is a link to the file: https://github.com/webxos/webXOS/blob/main/games/tempest_ai.html