DOOM in Microsoft Word!
Source-port of doomgeneric. Does not have sound.
Requires Windows with an x64 CPU architecture and the latest version of Microsoft Word.
See a video of it here!
- Download
doom.docmfrom the latest github release - Right click on the file, select Properties
- Select the General tab
- Select Unblock
- Open the file in Microsoft Word
- Select Enable Content in the security warning bar
Additionally, expect to have to fight Windows Defender, as Microsoft is (rightfully) not too keen on having Word documents extracting and running executables.
The Word document contains the library doomgeneric_docm.dll and doom1.wad game data encoded in base 64, which a VBA macro extracts onto the disk and then loads. Every game tick, doomgeneric_docm.dll creates a bmp image containing the current frame and uses GetAsyncKeyState to read the keyboard state. The main VBA macro's game loop runs a tick in doom, then replaces the image in the document with the latest frame.
| Action | Default Keybind |
|---|---|
| UP | ARROW UP |
| DOWN | ARROW DOWN |
| LEFT | ARROW LEFT |
| RIGHT | ARROW RIGHT |
| FIRE | CTRL |
| USE | SPACE |
| WEAPON SELECT | 1-7 |
Requires Make and a MinGW compiler. Creates bin/doomgeneric_docm.dll
cd doomgeneric
make
bin/doomgeneric_docm.dll and doom1.wad can be converted into VBA macros using util/codegen.py, and saved as vba/Data.vba.
The contents of the source files in the vba directory have been saved as modules in the Word document.