Simon Willison’s Chirp Pong Experiment Works with Audio Networking
Chirp Pong
- Who
- Simon Willison
- What
- demonstrates a two-player Pong-style game that sends game state between nearby phones using microphone-detected chirps
- Quote
It seems to work!
What happened
Simon Willison says his experiment shows a two-player game can run on separate phones using static HTML, with game state sent through microphone-detected chirps. The game is a competitive Pong-like experience with graphical and gameplay twists. The source ends with “Claude Opus 5.5 Extra in Claude Code” but does not explain how that relates to the experiment.
The story so far
Simon Willison demonstrated a two-player Pong-style game that sends game state between nearby phones through microphone-detected chirps, saying the experiment “seems to work.” The game runs as static HTML, uses the web microphone API to interpret the sounds, and adds graphical and gameplay twists to the competitive Pong format.
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