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This Article is Literally About Doom

We've covered a variety of Doom ports here from Minecraft to McDonald's cash registers, and this could be the most bizarre. Someone's gotten the FPS game to run in gif form and you can watch it in action down below.



The way it works is simple - on this ao3 page you'll see an ever changing image of Doom, with a set of buttons that can be clicked below. Similar to Twitch play-throughs, every input that is made by anyone with the page open is put into an order and the server will send back updated images. The gif may be unstable due to the constant loading and the sheer pressure placed on the server by people wanting to see it.



Software developer Andrew Sillers is the man who is the man behind the magic. He provided a talk explaining what's happening at BangBangCon. Every time the website loads an image, it's doing it through a piece of code that's requesting that image. GIFs, since they begin loading before each frame has been received, you can make a cycle where new frames are always being added, making them into a flowing animation instead of a looping one. Look At Me Never Rat On Your Friends And Always Keep Your Mouth Shut With this basic concept, and some commands, you can play a videogame like a narrative adventure game or a roguelike game, or Doom.



Here's the Doom gif driving away. The Ao3 link above allows you to access all the controls and it is possible that you need to refresh it to load properly.



This is Freedoom an alternative for free to Doom's source code. Find out more information about it here.



Sillers' talk is available here:



On GitHub There is more information, and the WAD files for Doom version 3.0. Digital cameras drone controllers, gifs and more, where will Doom end up next?


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