A playable DOOM MCP app

(chrisnager.com)

55 points | by chrisnager 1 hour ago

13 comments

  • _pdp_ 58 minutes ago
    Cool, but yes you can render whatever you want as long as you register an MCP resource and use it as part of a tool call. It is just html in an iframe.
  • neosat 9 minutes ago
    Apart from a cool project, this evolved my perspective on what an MCP is, along with some cool architecture insights and inspiring ideas. Thank you!
  • kang 12 minutes ago
    somebody did this a month ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdbXNWkpPMY

    i am increasingly going schizo, where every single thing I post/see posted gets copied and karma farmed on social media. further, any novelty I share with an llm gets eaten/absorbed by the harness as a feature.

  • throwawayk7h 8 minutes ago
    Was a little disappointed that this didn't result in the agent playing Doom itself over MCP.

    Still this is very cool! (And if that had been what you'd implemented, my disappointment would have been that it wasn't the reverse. :P Can it do both?)

  • phodo 59 minutes ago
    Great work. I wonder what the future "can it run doom ?" Will it be: Can it run AGI on a new quantum processor/ robot / bio-engineered cell. Or will it be Doom all the way down...
  • alach11 1 hour ago
    Snake and DOOM were two of our early tests (for filter functions and MCP) when we stood up Open WebUI for internal chat/agent use. Sometimes games are the best way to limit-test new tech.
  • avaer 50 minutes ago
    The title is misleading. This is in ChatGPT but not on ChatGPT. It's not running on AI. It's running on a site that serves an AI chatbot.

    Still very cool though.

    I suppose most people don't know this, but you can render web resources into chat harnesses via MCP apps [1]. The actual DOOM part of this runs on [2].

    [1] https://modelcontextprotocol.io/extensions/apps/overview [2] https://github.com/cloudflare/doom-wasm

    • dang 42 minutes ago
      Ok, we've switched the title above to a hopefully-clearer phrase from the article's first sentence.
      • chrisnager 21 minutes ago
        Works for me! Thanks for updating.

        Title changed from “DOOM runs in ChatGPT and Claude” to “A playable DOOM MCP app”.

  • sdkks 39 minutes ago
    I was not too surprised to see DOOM running on a pregnancy test before but seeing it on an MCP was really unexpected ;)
    • 2ndorderthought 29 minutes ago
      It's still fun but it feels gross. Like here is this monstrosity of compute running the thing we are running in toothbrushes.
  • nsxwolf 1 hour ago
    I read this and I did not understand it. An MCP is synthesizing DOOM frames from a training set? What is this doing
    • Ethee 54 minutes ago
      It took me a reread and some thinking to realize what was going on. The 'MCP app' he's referring to here is basically a browser front-end replacement like electron. So what he's doing here is running DOOM as apart of that browser run-time and passing it through to the front-end. It's less "playing DOOM through the AI" and more "Playing DOOM while the AI can watch".
    • nilslice 56 minutes ago
      its basically an iframe embedding doom on a remote webpage
  • awesome_dude 1 hour ago
    Best capability test there is
  • wingi 8 days ago
    simply great!
    • chrisnager 15 minutes ago
      Appreciate it. I had fun building.
  • huflungdung 52 minutes ago
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  • ashrodan 1 hour ago
    Love it! MCP apps is still new and under-utilised and we need to understand it's boundaries and compatibility.