Show HN: I made a Doom-like game fit inside a QR code
Published on: 2025-04-20 18:40:25
The Backdooms: Running DOOM on a QR Code
Yes, this is literally the entire game. You can scan it to play.
🚀 Project Overview
The Backdooms is a compressed, self-extracting and infinitely generating HTML game inspired by DOOM 1993 and The Backrooms that can be launched and played in a web browser directly from a QR code.
This project was a week-long study I performed (now slightly longer) designed to push the limits of QR code storage and compression, to demonstrate an innovative method of hosting lightweight web applications entirely within a QR code.
Play a slightly less compressed version of this game here
Yes, it's 8bit Undertale Music There
📜 Features
✅ Fully Offline: No internet connection is required to play the game after scanning the QR code. The URL basically has the ENTIRE code to the game
✅ Extreme Compression: Utilizes a combination of Zlib compression with Gzip Decompression stream along with base64 encoding to make the final result extremely compressed.
✅ Self-E
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