A high school student found a way to run the classic PC game Doom from within a PDF file by leveraging the format's support for JavaScript and the Chromium browser engine.

A crafty high-schooler was able to do something I didn’t think was possible: They got Doom running inside a PDF file. Seriously. And weirdly, it works better than you might expect!

In the past, hackers have used this little-known Adobe feature to code simple games like Breakout and Tetris into PDF documents. But ading220 went further, recompiling a streamlined fork of Doom 's open source code using an old version of Emscripten that outputs optimized asm.js code.

ALBAWABA - A high school student recently went viral after impressively porting Doom (1993) into a PDF file allowing players to experience the iconic ga

Github user and “high school student” ading2210 was inspired by a recent port of Tetris, named TetrisPDF, to the humble PDF format, and resolved to make one of the world’s most celebrated shooters playable in a Chromium-based browser near you.

Github user ading2210 /vk6 has developed an unusual port of Doom. You can play it on its official website which, of course, is just a PDF file that can be downloaded on your system. It continues a long tradition of creative Doom ports, further enriching its historic legacy

I tried Doom in a PDF on Chrome browser and it gave me a nostalgia but through a string of words on my screen. Here's how it went.

Thomas Rinsma, a security analyst and hobbyist tinkerer, recently figured out how to create a version of Tetris that runs inside a PDF file. According to a personal website post subsequently highlighted by BoingBoing on January 15th,

However, modern browsers can unlock more features for PDF documents, as proven by new ports of Tetris and DOOM. Thomas Rinsma, a security analysist and developer, published a working demonstration of the classic puzzle game Tetris running entirely in a PDF.