A developer has achieved the seemingly impossible: fitting a playable, Doom-inspired game entirely within a single QR code by leveraging extreme code minification, Zlib+Gzip compression, and the ...

In context: QR codes were originally designed to efficiently track the types and quantities of automobile parts. Today, thanks to smartphones and mobile apps, their use has expanded far beyond that.

There's something a bit magical about shareware stalwart Doom and folks' compulsion to make it run on absolutely everything. Present a sufficiently motivated individual with the game's open source ...

Doom has a long history of fan-made source ports on PC since the original game’s source code was publicly shared by ID Software in 1997. These ports aim to enhance and preserve the game, making mods ...

A takedown notice sent by ZeniMax led to the Android Store’s removal of several ports of Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein; one of the developers admits that, though the port used open-source Doom code, ...

A computer scientist used only “pure SQL” to construct a multiplayer DOOM-like game. The resulting first-person shooter game, cobbled from a mere ~150 lines of Python code, is dubbed DOOMQL. Despite ...