The franchise has literally reached a cosmic level.
Programmer Ólafur Waage was able to successfully launch the shooter DOOM beyond Earth. To do this, he used a satellite in orbit.
This time, the "OPS-SAT" served as the gaming platform - the satellite is a "flying laboratory" of the European Space Agency.
The satellite did not have "its own graphics" (GPU / monitor), so the graphics were created programmatically.
DOOM was launched in demo mode: the player did not control the shooter, and data was sent to Earth. The programmer explained:
"The idea was to run as many demos as possible, comparing the output from space and from Earth. We made a huge table of random numbers (RNG) and checked if individual events could affect the gameplay. In the simulation - yes; in space, unfortunately, no. But that was our real plan for the project; sometimes experiments don't work, but that's what OPS-SAT is for
The in-game sky texture was decided to be replaced with an image from the satellite's camera.
