OG Death everywhere at this time. It is available on consoles, phones and computers. Someone put it on rotary phone and a computer. I mean, jeez, you can even play it on twitter right now. But in case you think people have run out of ways to play Death, guess again. Turns out there are still plenty of creative methods to rip id Software’s FPS, including Lego bricks.
Yes, you read that right. A New Zealand producer named James “Ancient_james” Brown installed the smallest, smallest possible screen to look like a blue 3D printed Lego brick to run the iconic shooter of the year. 1993, Death. It’s horribly small, which makes it adorable, but probably a pain in the butt while playing.
Brown, an animation and graphics programmer who posts his creations on sites like Mastodon and Twitter (and totally Not deceased funk musician), began a topic on June 6 showing a Lego brick playing a game on his PC. Blue piece between a small ass STM32F030F4P6 board with ARM Cortex M0 processor, 16K flash memory and 4K RAM. However, the screen is the cherry at the top. Its 0.42 inch OLED screen 72×40 . resolution. What? This isn’t big enough to see what’s going on. I’m imagining a lot of accidental deaths.
When commented on via Twitter DMs, Brown explained Kotaku that the Lego brick acts only as an external display, with the PC streaming Death offscreen via a small python script that does dithering and resizing.
“The microcontroller in the block has 16K flashes, this helps you Death Brown said. “There is no way for it to run properly. The options seem to be: 1) Write a boycott game with as many Death taste better, 2) Plug it in and stream video into it, or 3) Put a more powerful processor in it. One will probably not be accepted as matching the meme. Two doesn’t seem like an interesting challenge. Three will take longer to design. But since both were so easy, someone would eventually do it and I decided I’d rather it be me. ”
Brown didn’t initially plan to port the game to the tiny Lego brick. But a gamer’s first instinct is to ask if a console can run Deathand when his work went viral, message came flood in. The only way to silence the masses? Give them what they want, and that’s it Death.
“Once that announcement started being shared, every other message mentioned Death,” Brown said. “So I muted it for seven days and waited for everything to go back to normal. But people are still saying it a week later.”
And now we have Death Run on a Lego brick, and it has rules! I love miniature technology like this. It speaks to the ever-evolving nature of technology and the relentless efforts of gamers to ensure Death always playable. While this brick may not be the most portable or practical way to play Deathit reminds me of Thumby, lil game for ants. It’s also a really hard-to-see smol handheld, but probably still plays id Software’s old-fashioned FPS. Serious, Death is a cockroach. You cannot kill it. It’s everywhere. Maybe it will become a currency in some post-apocalyptic future…or an NFT in our backward present.
