DOOM. Rendered with checkboxes. Played on a webpage.

Sometimes the most ridiculous things are the most worth doing.

Andrew Healey, who deserves a serious high five, has built something wonderfully ridiculous.

He took DOOM running in Web Assembly.

Sent the video output of that into Checkboxland — which renders images as a giant grid of HTML checkboxes.

And — shazam — came up with a version of DOOM… rendered entirely in checkboxes.

It looks like this:

This checkbox “resolution” is 160 x 100 — which means that screenshot is made up of 16,000 individual checkboxes. Technically it could have a much higher resolution… but the performance would make it totally unusable.

Andrew talks about how he did it in a blog post… which I highly recommend reading. Because it is utterly, wonderfully ridiculous. I love it.

The performance isn’t stellar… because it has to update 16,000 checkboxes. But it totally works. And it only really works on desktop browsers.

Take it for a spin. Because it’s goofy. And goofy is good.

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