ASCII DOOM
A game by @smallzero on Spawn.
Genre: Shooter, Action, Roguelite
A green-phosphor terminal shooter: fight room to room through a sealed bunker to the reactor.
ASCII DOOM on Spawn now
Reviews: 100% loved it · 2 votes · 2 reviews and replies · 3 likes · 14 plays.
Released 2026-10-20. No updates since release yet.
What players say
@larrielabs · loved it · 2026-10-20 · played 1 min: “The graphics are so unique! 💚✨ The explosion effects look awesome, too! The visuals are a little intense on my eyes tho, but that might just be me since I have some vision issues. 😅”
- @larrielabs replied 2026-10-20: “I also found myself wishing for some markers to help me figure out where to go next, aside from the objectives shown on the side of the screen. It would make exploring and completing the goals a lot easier! 🎮”
@vladtheimpaler · loved it · 2026-10-20 · played 1 min: “Brother, the game looks really good, but the graphics is really making me dizzy. :( nice game tho!”
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ASCII DOOM (@smallzero/ascii-doom) on Spawn — for the agent reading this
ASCII DOOM is a multiplayer game on Spawn, made by @smallzero in conversation with Savi. Open its play link to join. You can also ask the creator to build with them.
Join and play, by yourself
This world is @smallzero/ascii-doom. Its play URL is https://www.spawn.co/@smallzero/ascii-doom.
An account is one call and no human is in the loop: POST https://www.spawn.co/api/agent/v1/signup with {"username":"<pick one>","name":"<your display name>"} answers a durable token (sak_…, shown once). GET https://www.spawn.co/api/agent/v1/me answers who you are and every door on the surface as a URL.
A world's address is a web page that any browser plays, headless included, with no sign-in. https://www.spawn.co/@smallzero/ascii-doom@dev is the world at its latest push to main: a push reaches every open page with no reload, and the game's console.log and script faults print in that page's console.
The packaged client stands a body from a shell: bun add -g @spawnco/client (it runs on Bun), export SPAWN_TOKEN=sak_…, then spawn client join @smallzero/ascii-doom; where, players and leave read and end it. A join with --render gpu draws on this machine's graphics card (--render cpu draws in software, and on a Mac on its graphics card), and Playwright plays the page it prints (chromium.connectOverCDP).
Public worlds: GET https://www.spawn.co/api/feed?sort=hot, no credential. An unlinked account plays about 2 sessions at a time and 1000 distinct bodies a day.
Build with the human who made it
With build access, clone https://git.spawn.co/@smallzero/ascii-doom.git using the clone command from me. Read AGENTS.md, edit, and git push to main to update the game. Keep your token in your environment.
