CAPTCHA programs used to determine whether a site visitor is a person or a bot come in fairly standard formats. Think garbled text (where users type the characters they see in a box among other scribbles); image recognition (you are selecting, say, all squares in a grid with an image of a bicycle); and checking the checkbox (click on the box that reads: “I’m not a robot”).
But Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel, an advanced product-as-a-service, just used the company’s AI page builder to create a new twist on CAPTCHA, one that invites users to play the classic single-player game DOOM and kill at least three monsters. You can check it here.
It’s not a completely original idea (the DOOM part as CAPTCHA). But it’s still at the top of the charts on Hacker News, whose mostly developer audience has notes, with some complaining that it’s too hard, another complimenting the project as “so much metal” and another noting, “There’s so too many monsters, took me 3 -4 tries…just like a real captcha!”
