Mistral AI Game Jam

Yongkang Zou · 2025-01-28 · hackathon · Game

Last weekend, from January 24 to 26, our team participated in the Mistral AI Hackathon Game Jam Edition. This was my second hackathon, and it turned out to be a highly rewarding experience.

Directing the Chaos

We built a game called "Make Debates Great Again". Have you ever watched a TV debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump and thought you could stir things up? Now is your chance.

Make Debates Great Again title screen — The title screen for Make Debates Great Again.

You play as a TV journalist. You toss out spicy topics and watch the candidates try to win over the public, though sometimes they completely derail themselves.

Your mission is to follow secret earpiece instructions. You need to nudge the debate along without pushing too hard. If you push too far, they might storm off mid-show. You guide the chaos instead of controlling it.

Game over screen showing Trump winning — Push the candidates too far and you might get fired.

System Design

For the visuals and mechanics, we used Unity 3D and C#. This combination handled the player inputs and animations.

The real-time AI interactions were powered by Mistral AI and ElevenLabs. Mistral handled the language models while ElevenLabs generated the lifelike voices.

We also built an agentic system in Python to manage the dynamic state between the player and the candidates. This included a referee system that evaluates candidate anger levels for added unpredictability.

Gameplay showing anger meters for candidates — The referee system tracks candidate anger levels in real-time.

Weekend Atmosphere

Seeing so many talented developers create games in one weekend was a great experience. The energy in the room was high throughout the event.

If you want to support our project, please drop a like on our Hugging Face Space.

Huge shoutout to my team: Hugo Vazquez, Gabriel Vidal-Ayrinhac, Louis Martinez, Gabriel Kasmi, and Raphaël Jean. Thanks to Photoroom for hosting us in their offices. Thanks also to Mistral AI, Nebius, Hugging Face, Scaleway, Entrepreneurs First, Balderton, and ElevenLabs for organizing the event.

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