It’s a WebAssembly application, but it was made via a human language, prompt-driven web development tool called v0 that’s part of a suite of features offered as part of Vercel, a cloud-based developer tool service, of which Rauch is the CEO. You can see the LLM bot chat history with the series of prompts that produced this CAPTCHA game on the v0 website.
Strangely enough, there has been a past attempt at making a Doom CAPTCHA. In 2021, developer Miquel Camps Orteza made an approximation of one—though not all the assets matched Doomand it was more Doom-adjacent. That one was made directly by hand, and its source code is available on GitHub. Its developer noted that it’s not secure; it’s just for fun.
Rauch’s attempt is no more serious as a CAPTCHA, but it at least resembles Doom more closely.
Don’t expect to be playing this to verify at real websites anytime soon, though. It’s not secure, and its legality is fuzzy at best. While the code for Doom is open source, the assets from the game like enemy sprites and environment textures—which feature prominently in this application—are not.
