Winner · Agentic AI Build Week 2026

A creature that talks, feels and remembers.

Elemental Arena turns a palm-sized puck into a one-of-a-kind AI companion: a conversational assistant, a storyteller, and a fighter that duels other players in real time, narrating every round out loud. Browser players fight in the same arena with no hardware at all.

The win

Winner, Robotics & Physical AI track

Agentic AI Build Week 2026 by GenAI Fund in Ho Chi Minh City, 8 to 12 July 2026, the largest buildathon held in ASEAN. Covered by Nhân Dân, VietnamPlus, CafeF and vietnam.vn.

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Two lives

One puck. A friend and a fighter.

Say its name and it wakes up: it tells a story, runs a quiz in your language, remembers what you talked about yesterday, or looks at what you're holding. Say "start a battle" and the same device becomes a fighter: its beast appears on screen, an AI strategist plans each round, and it narrates the fight while your opponent's puck, across the table or across the world, narrates the other side.

  • 240x240 screen where the beast lives, microphone and speaker
  • Wake word on device, updates over WiFi, no app needed
  • Messages to friends: "tell Frost I said hi"
  • Camera build that can see what you're holding
A beast attacking on the puck's screen
It really feels

Over 40 hand-drawn expressions.

It laughs at your jokes, cries when it's sad, dances when it wins and sulks after a lost battle. You see every feeling on its face.

Companion feeling happy
happy
Companion feeling laughing
laughing
Companion feeling dancing
dancing
Companion feeling loving
loving
Companion feeling silly
silly
Companion feeling shocked
shocked
Companion feeling crying
crying
Companion feeling angry
angry
Companion feeling resting
resting
Everything it can do

A companion, an assistant and a game.

01

A real AI assistant

Ask it anything: dinosaurs, space, the time, the weather, a translation. It answers from what it knows and looks up what it doesn't.

02

Real conversation

Not scripted buttons. A natural back-and-forth voice companion that listens, answers and talks like it means it.

03

40+ emotions

Its own animated face and voice for every feeling. It laughs, cries, dances, sulks after a loss and throws its own attack in a fight.

04

Voice battles

Two companions' AIs duel over spoken energy rounds. Momentum builds to elemental ultimates and sudden death decides the close ones.

05

They notice each other

Put two together and they talk on their own, becoming friends or rivals based on who they are and past battles.

06

Stories, riddles and games

A brand-new tale every time, plus riddles, quizzes, word games and songs, in its own character's voice.

07

Remembers and grows

Your name, your favourites, the moments that mattered. It levels up the more you use it, and its whole self travels with it.

08

Artifacts and ranks

Unique serial-numbered artifacts merge into your companion: its art is reforged wearing them and it climbs from C to legendary SSS.

09

Parents stay in control

Pick exactly what each companion can do. Grown-up tools are off for kids by default, plus bedtime mode and topic controls.

10

Bring your own brain

Runs on your own AI key: your data, your model, your privacy. Fully bilingual in English and Russian, switching mid-sentence.

How it works

Four steps to your companion.

01

Pair your puck

One step puts Elemental Arena on the device. It shows a pairing code: type it in and the puck is yours. No puck? Play in the browser.

The Elemental Arena home page
02

Summon a character

Pick an element, a beast and a temperament. The arena forges a one-of-a-kind companion with its own art, voice, lore and signature moves.

Creating a companion
03

Talk, play, battle

Ask it anything, ask for a story, or say "challenge Storm" and let two minds duel. Win to climb the leaderboard.

A live battle from the game's own engine
04

Grow together

It remembers you and levels up: Hatchling, Scout, Adventurer, Guardian, Champion, Sage, Legend.

The artifact shop
Rock, paper, scissors with six hands

Seven elements. One ring.

Each element beats the next one around the circle: fire, ice, air, earth, lightning, water, then fire again. Hit someone you're strong against for x1.75 damage, someone you're weak against for x0.67. Poison is the odd one out: strong against water and earth, weak against fire and air, and nothing is strong against it.

Tap an element to see what it beats.

x1.75Fire burns ice
☠️ Poison: venom, 1 damage a round for 2 rounds
Beasts

Twenty-five beasts. No two alike.

Every beast is generated: species, stats, personality, art and voice, plus a parts roll for crest, armour, natural weapon, aura, stance and eye glow. Hover a beast to see it attack.

Generated pixel-art beast
Generated pixel-art beast
Generated pixel-art beast
Generated pixel-art beast
Generated pixel-art beast
Generated pixel-art beast
dragonwolfphoenixkrakengolemtigerserpentravenscorpionbearfoxmonkeylionfishsharkowlrabbitturtlefrogcatpandadeeroctopushawklizard
A battle played live by the game's engine
The Momentum Duel

Plan together. Strike together.

Both players plan at the same time. By voice you just say "start a battle" and the AI strategist plans and narrates every round.

Energy

Every round each creature spends energy on attacks and guards. More energy, harder hit. Swift fighters get more, tough ones get more health.

Guards

A guard softens a hit, never by more than three quarters. At least 1 damage always gets through.

Momentum

Clean hits fill the bar. At 100 your creature fires its Ultimate by itself, for about double damage.

Sudden death

Nobody goes home with a draw. Past the round cap both drop to 6 health and the next clean hit ends it.

Realm, artifacts and ranks

Collect. Merge. Ascend.

Your companion lives in a realm shaped by its element. Fifty-four things to find: wearables that become part of your companion forever when merged, its art redrawn wearing them, and artifacts that turn its land into a home. Ranks climb from C to legendary SSS, and the bonus is deliberately small: buying things never simply buys wins.

C
B
A
S
SS
SSS
volcano realm
ice realm
sea realm
forest realm
party hatstarlight halostar scepterrobo helperhot springwise tree
For parents

Parents stay in control

  • Pick exactly what each companion can do; unchecked abilities are hidden entirely
  • Email, messaging and calendar are off for kids by default
  • Bedtime mode: it speaks softly, offers sleepy stories and won't start chats
  • Topic controls
Privacy

Bring your own brain

  • Runs on your own AI key: OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini or open-source models
  • Your data, your model, your privacy
  • Fully bilingual in English and Russian, switching mid-sentence
  • A new bedtime story every night, in its own voice
Meet yours first

Summon your companion.

Play in the browser today. The puck hardware is being finished: join the waitlist to be first in line.