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DOOMscrolling: The Game


Can a game work where all you do is scroll?

I spent an hour or two each morning over coffee working on this game until the kids woke up, gradually adding and refining features one at a time. It’s not really doomscrolling if there isn’t awful news to readThe plaques have no effect on the game, except to the extent that they tempt you to read them and get distracted from the gameplay. I still planned on making the monsters as pre-rendered sprites, but the background textures, plaques, and decorative items like torches could still be rendered in-game if I could just get GPT-5 to understand what I want them to look like.

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