Doom Converted Into Playable GIF By Software Engineer
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Software engineer Andrew Sillers used livestream-like methods to make Doom run as a GIF
Actual playability is very bad due to controls and extreme performance issues
It’s been proven time and again that the classic version of Id Software’s “Doom” can run on almost anything. People have ported the game onto smart fridges, calculators and even pregnancy tests. As amazing as these versions are, one man has beaten all of them in terms of ingenuity by porting “Doom” into an interactive .gif that anyone can use.
Software engineer Andrew Sillers announced that he successfully made an interactive GIF of “Doom,” Game Rant reported. Sillers said that this project was made as part of his participation in the virtual !!Con (otherwise known as “BangBangCon”).
Doom Has Been Turned Into A Playable GIF, Apparently
A software engineer has ported Doom to a playable gif hosted at a popular fanfiction archive, and it works, though you probably aren t going to be slaying any Cyberdemons with it anytime soon.
Doom is now playable through a GIF image hosted at fanfiction site Archive of Our Own (aka AO3), which is quite the achievement. A software engineer named Andrew Sillers exploited the way that GIF images are loaded by websites like AO3 in order to add new frames to the end of a looping image, meaning that you can essentially stream a game or animation as a GIF.