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Doom is Literally Playing in this Article

We've covered all kinds of Doom ports here from Minecraft to McDonald's cash registers, and this might be the weirdest yet. Someone has managed to get the FPS game running in gif format and you can see it in action down below.



It operates in a straightforward way. On this ao3 page you will see a continually evolving Gif of Doom with a set clickable controls below. Much like the Twitch plays a series of crowd-controlled play-throughs, each input that's clicked by anyone with the webpage open goes into a queue, and the server processes them in a sequential order, then sends back the updated images. The Only Way To Get Smarter Is By Playing A Smarter Opponent This does make the gif itself a bit unstable, due to the constant loading, and the sheer pressure on the server by people who want to view the gif.



Software developer Andrew Sillers is the man behind the magic. He gave a talk at BangBangCon explaining what's happening here. When websites load an image, it does it through a piece of code that's requesting the image. With gifs, because they begin loading before each frame is received, you can make an ongoing cycle in which new frames are always being added, transforming them into an animated flow rather than a looping animation. This basic idea and a few commands will allow you to play a videogame , such as a narrative adventure, Roguelike or Doom.



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



This is Freedoom an alternative for free to Doom's source code. You can learn more about it here.



Sillers' talk is available here:



On GitHub, you can find more information, and the WAD files for Doom version 3.0. Digital cameras drone controllers, gifs, where will Doom get to in the future?


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