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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 ... Read full article.