doom_epub
A self-contained EPUB 3 that runs the complete 1993 DOOM shareware episode inside ordinary ebook readers (WebAssembly, no plugins, no network)
Details
- External ID
- 1367645771
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- doom_epub
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 15
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4914168588265437
- Tags
- apple-books, doom, emscripten, epub, fixed-layout, webassembly
- Fetched at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- interactive simulations and creative experiments
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- webassembly doom port for ebook readers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Packaging files into an EPUB is simple, but embedding an entire compiled WebAssembly port of DOOM that executes within the strict sandboxed JavaScript environments of varied e-readers is non-trivial.
What it would actually take: The stack uses Emscripten/WebAssembly to compile chocolate-doom or prboom, bundled alongside the shareware WAD file into an XHTML-compatible EPUB3 container. The difficult engineering challenge lies in bypassing or working within extreme memory, canvas, and scripting restrictions across different e-reader rendering engines (e.g., Apple Books, Calibre, Kobo WebKit) without network access or standard browser APIs. It requires deep knowledge of WebAssembly toolchains, retro game porting, and the intricacies of EPUB3 reader sandbox quirks.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 77 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #40 of 78 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 303 days after the earliest competitor.
- doom-os · github · 2026-09-28 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- N64DoomRPGPort · github · 2026-09-10 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- I wrote a DOOM clone in my own programming language · hn · 2026-04-28 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Doom (1993) Playable in a GitHub Readme · hn · 2026-01-06 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- sqldoom · github · 2026-09-22 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Game-Catalogue · github · 2026-09-19 · 35 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- We attached vGPUs to sandboxed Chromium then played Doom 3 x WASM on it · hn · 2026-03-19 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- EternalVR · github · 2026-09-28 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.42
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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