Paper Glider
Steer a paper airplane through procedurally generated rooms, an OpenAI Codex showcase demo.
Official site paper-glider-56.openai.chatgpt.site, verified Nov 3, 2026. Linked as "Try it live" from the game's page on OpenAI's developer showcase (developers.openai.com/showcase/paper-glider).
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Browser (no download) · Mobile · Official link verified Nov 3, 2026.
About Paper Glider
A free 3D arcade game in the browser: you steer a paper airplane through sunlit, procedurally generated rooms, collect floating rings for points and end the run if you hit furniture or a wall. It is a demo on OpenAI's developer showcase, credited to Katia Gil Guzman of OpenAI. OpenAI's showcase describes it as a 3D flying game built with Codex, and its page publishes the initial prompt and the build iterations. It plays in desktop and mobile browsers from the showcase's "Try it live" link.
How it was built
Partially verifiedOpenAI's showcase says Paper Glider was "built with Codex and GPT-5". The game's own showcase page lists the prompt and three build steps, including a dependency-free WebGL engine with procedural rooms, but does not name the tool. The model version is inconsistent: the text says GPT-5, while the tags and image file name say GPT-5.6.
- OfficialPrompt and iteration log published on the game's showcase page; tool not named there. — OpenAI
Prompt-driven build published as a log: an initial brief, an iteration that built a dependency-free WebGL engine with procedural rooms, rings, steering, scoring and collisions, a second iteration for materials and lighting, and a final polish pass checked on desktop and mobile.
- Engine / framework
- Custom WebGL engine
- Languages
- JavaScript
- Team size
- Not disclosed
- Development time
- Not disclosed
- Development cost
- Not disclosed
- AI-written code
- Not disclosed
Verification notes: Author, play link and build log from the game's OpenAI showcase page; the Codex statement appears only on a related-project card on the Glass Towers showcase page. A first-party vendor demo, not an independent release. No date is shown on either page. The WebGL game itself was not run during the check.
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Sources
| Source | Type | Published | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paper Glider — OpenAI developer showcase OpenAI | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Glass Towers — OpenAI developer showcase (related project card for Paper Glider) OpenAI | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Official game page (language check) OpenAI | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
