https://github.com/fragglet/miniwad

Minimalist Doom IWAD
https://github.com/fragglet/miniwad

doom minimalist open-content

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Minimalist Doom IWAD

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/fragglet/miniwad
• Owner: fragglet
• License: other
• Created: 2019-06-17T03:21:01.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: trunk
• Last Pushed: 2025-04-25T16:14:14.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-08-19T21:09:11.933Z (10 months ago)
• Topics: doom, minimalist, open-content
• Language: Python
• Homepage: https://soulsphere.org/random/miniwad.zip
• Size: 344 KB
• Stars: 75
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 3
• Open Issues: 4
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: COPYING.adoc

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# Minimal Doom IWAD

What's the smallest a Doom IWAD can be while still being vaguely playable?

An exercise in minimalism.

The result is a WAD file less than a quarter of a megabyte that can in

theory be used to play any WAD from the idgames archive.

Features:

* Flat-shaded walls and floors

* An assortment of identical looking enemies that look like

  creepy silhouettes

* Nine variations of the same gun

* Two sound effects

* No music

* No real levels (Bring Your Own Levels)

* Usable menus!

* Minimalist status bar

For a similar project that's a bit more playable, check out

[Squashware Doom](https://github.com/fragglet/squashware), which shrinks the

Shareware Doom IWAD file to below 2MB. 

## Screenshots

![Screenshot](sshot1.png)

![Screenshot](sshot2.png)

## How?

The whole WAD is built to take advantage of

[wadptr](https://soulsphere.org/projects/wadptr/)'s merging features,

specifically:

* Multiple copies of the same lump are merged. The textures are reduced to

  a very small color palette so that many of them will look identical and

  be merged. Similarly, the same two sound effects are reused for many

  different purposes.

* wadptr can merge identical columns within a Doom graphic. To take

  advantage of this, many of the graphics are deliberately simplistic or

  mirrored in appearance so save space.