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Doom in the iPhone Photos App (Barely)

Running DOOM in the iOS photos app with some shortcut abuse

Adnan and I were both doing a camp at ITP this past summer and wanted a break from our longer-term projects - we thought that building a weird game inside iOS would be a fun diversion. This was initially promising - it was easy to swap out the background with a shortcut, and we could easily get a reasonable framerate (here a proof of concept running at 2 FPS): Problem 1 wasn’t too bad - I found a version of DOOM that was playable in the browser, and set up my laptop as a command and control server.

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