AI Engineering

Jul 27, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Low‑Cost Game Development with OpenCode AI: How Inference Routing Drives a Godot Shootout

The article details how OpenCode AI, combined with DigitalOcean's inference router, built a full‑featured Godot 4 penalty‑shootout game in a few hours, routing 596 tasks across cheap open‑source models, cutting token costs from $123 to $8.25 while revealing model performance, latency, and when to prefer frontier models.