Doom as an OP Stack Chain

What is an Mad Science Project Idea?

A Mad Science Project Idea is an idea for a project within the Optimism ecosystem that may not have clear value but is generally cool as heck. Mad Science Project Ideas make great hackathon projects and tend to be a great way to explore Optimism, OP Mainnet, and the OP Stack.

Summary

The OP Stack makes it possible to easily spin up new rollups with custom execution environments. Although you could probably put Doom on a blockchain, why not create a blockchain that is Doom?

Doom Chain would involve hacking the execution layer to replace the EVM with an emulator of some system running Doom. Transactions in the system would then represent inputs to the system. Running Doom demo files should be a good test of this hack.

Possible Features

• Be able to play Doom in a browser where each input is actually a transaction to an OP Stack chain.
• Be able to run Doom demo files as an automated series of transactions to the Doom Chain.

Impact

• Doom is a great game
• OP Stack community would learn a lot about the process of modifying the execution layer
• You would get clout for SURE