Looks like this is a month for novelty Doom spinoffs, and this time it is a playable version of Doom in a PDF made possible due to JavaScript support in PDFs.
Here’s some gameplay footage that I put together where you can appreciate it in all its ASCII glory:
You can play it here – https://doompdf.pages.dev/. Note that it only works on Chromium based browsers (Chrome & Edge for ex.) for now, but supports loading your own WAD files if you want to try other variations.
via: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/01/this-pdf-contains-a-playable-copy-of-doom/
