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Life sciences · Preprint
arXiv · September 8, 2026
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PlayTrain is a software framework that integrates LLM code generation with reinforcement learning environments to enable rapid game development in JavaScript. The paper describes the tool's architecture and demonstrates its use in cloning existing games and running RL training at reported speeds, but provides no controlled validation, comparative benchmarks, or empirical evidence of claimed advantages over existing methods.
Preprint. Intervention: PlayTrain framework combining LLM-based JavaScript game generation with reinforcement learning pipeline.
PlayTrain trains pixel-based agents at over 1M agent-decisions per second on a single GPU node Framework enables LLM-generated JavaScript games to run in standard gym environments Demonstrated on cloning Atari and ProcGen games from minimal prompts
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While many video-game environments (VGEs) have played crucial roles in advancing reinforcement learning (RL), developing novel VGEs or modifying existing ones to support new features, has been a laborious process requiring extensive hand-coding. Here we present PlayTrain, an RL framework that combines the abilities of large language models (LLMs) to robustly generate JavaScript (JS) games from a minimal human prompt, and an efficient pipeline that can run any JS game in a standard 'gym' environment. Not only are recent LLMs particularly good at writing JS code, but the JS format also allows users to easily play generated VGEs, while PlayTrain enables us to train RL agents on the exact same games. We demonstrate multiple use cases of PlayTrain, including cloning well-known Atari and ProcGen games in simple JS, where PlayTrain trains pixel-based agents end-to-end at over 1M agent-decisions per second on a single GPU node; and creating modified versions thereof (e.g., that support novel test sets, procedural generation logics, or game dynamics). Through PlayTrain, we reimagine RL VGE development: all we need is a single JS file, generated and modified through an LLM. We discuss promising future RL research directions that PlayTrain unlocks.
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