DOOMQL

·Simon Willison··

DOOMQL Peter Gostev built this using GPT-5.6 Sol. This is a lot of fun: DOOMQL started with a deliberately unreasonable question: what if SQLite were the game engine, not merely the place where a game stores data? The result is a small, original Doom-like game in which SQL owns movement, collision, enemies, combat, progression and every RGB pixel on screen. It's implemented as a Python terminal script - I tried it out like this: cd /tmp git clone https://github.com/petergpt/doomql cd doomql uv r...

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