backdooms

you don't have to imagine too far - I made DOOM run through a series of pre-rendered images in markdown files as a stateless engine before [0] and the answer to your question is highly upto interpretation You move, you plan, your actions have outcomes Same question as if you're playing choose-your-own-adventure game storybook 0 - https://github.com/Kuberwastaken/backdooms

A few days ago I posted about PicoGPT - my take on MicroGPT by Andrej Karpathy, minified to 64 lines to run from a QR code This is now v2 with minified JS! This version features a minimal GPT implementation with native browser execution through data URI with <40 lines of minified JS and no external dependencies It makes use of the DecompressionStream Web API and a similiar logic to my past project of running a DOOM-like game from a QR code you can quite literally "train" and run inference of a GPT model from your mobile device Would love to hear what you think about it ! Related Links: Show HN: PicoGPT – GPT in a QR Code https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46993035 MicroGPT by Andrej Karpathy - https://gist.github.com/karpathy/8627fe009c40f57531cb1836010... https://karpathy.github.io/2026/02/12/microgpt/ Show HN: I made a Doom-like game

Yeah, sadly, top-level dataURIs are increasingly neglected and banished from browsers, mainly because they were misused for scams in the past; for example no modern browser allows navigating to top-level dataURI by clicking a link. Only bookmarks, manual entry, and external invocation (share) work (sometimes). Anyway, I have put some remarks and docs for that thing into https://gist.github.com/myfonj/c8ce74bf549e19600026ce9022388... , if you are interested. By the way, this "Backrooms" can also work from non-base64 URI and as such is significantly smaller (https://github.com/Kuberwastaken/backdooms/pull/3#issuecomme...)

I sometimes pick up random projects just because I can, this was one of those times. I made it as a week long project a while back this year but never shared here, so thought to go for it haha. I created a game inspired by Doom and the backrooms called The Backdooms under 2.4kb in minified html. (for reference, this entire post would be around 1.8kB haha) I had to use a not popular way of using GZip with Zlib headers (had to write my own script for compressing it, also in the repo) to eventually convert it a size 40 QR code that works right in your browser using Decompressionstream API. This is of course a very oversimplified description of it, using a lot of the same technologies that DOOM had but combining it with infinite seed based map generation in 2.4kb (QR codes can only store 3kb, which includes changing formats) was pretty hard.