Show HN: I Turned DOOM into a Transformer

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83 points | by falperc 9 hours ago

12 comments

  • mg794613 16 minutes ago

    Was there even a human involved at all, or was this a "no mistakes" prompt outcome?

    Nothing on this page looks made by a human, its _all_ generated, not a tiny bit of it, _all_ of it.

    Guess having the word "doom" and "transformer"in your publication is enough today.

    • andai 7 hours ago

      Awesome

      >a handwritten digit takes 163 seconds of real-time DOOM in one map at the default schedule and 8 seconds at --opt 3.

      What does this refer to? What does schedule mean here, and what are these opt levels?

      Edit: oh sweet Jesus

      https://github.com/mottopanikeiku/doomformer/blob/main/docs/...

      • fwip 5 hours ago

        Oh, it's AI word-vomit.

        • MarsZebra 2 hours ago

          I pity the AI agent that had to work on this

          • autoexec 2 hours ago

            Does that mean the title should have been "AI Turned DOOM into a Transformer"?

            • falperc 1 hour ago

              It helped me write my docs!

            • falperc 5 hours ago

              theres no pleasing you people do you expect me to write all my docs and disclaimers by hand

              • jacquesm 2 hours ago

                You won't like the answer to that question ;)

                • tnms 2 hours ago

                  Yes. Don't be lazy.

                  • fwip 5 hours ago

                    It just means there's no sense trying to read the docs.

                    • falperc 1 hour ago

                      That’s entirely fair. I’ll certainly work on editing the docs and making them more legible over time.

              • kuberwastaken 25 minutes ago

                As a fellow doom-weird-places-fitter, this is art. Congratulations :)

                • bjconlan 4 hours ago

                  Came for the "doomformer" based snow lyric puns... Left with a feeling my people are on slashdot.

                  • slowin 8 hours ago

                    This is absolutely incredible. I feel like this could help visualize a neural network, but you have to know a lot about DOOM to really understand it.

                    • falperc 8 hours ago

                      you have to know a lot about lots and lots of DOOMs, in parallel

                    • stmonty 7 hours ago

                      Self-plug I have a very similar blog post title but a very different approach. Honestly, I like your idea more than my own idea. https://nostalgia.dev/posts/running-doom-inside-a-transforme...

                      • falperc 7 hours ago

                        what if you run doom on doomformer?

                        I havent fully recursed but what I have done with this is use a DOOMformer to generate a level, have python compile it, have DOOMformer generate the name of the level, and use a DOOMformer brain to complete said level. I have also trained said DOOMformer (you can see the levels "weights" updating as it trains) to aim better lol

                      • nico 1 hour ago

                        This is so trippy, very cool, love it

                        I made a classifier play doom[0]. But you turned the whole network into Doom! Amazing

                        0: https://playground.jeffyclassify.com/#doom

                        • mattmcal 4 hours ago

                          I think it might be more interesting to target Boom/Boom-compatible, if possible, rather than ZDoom. ZDoom already has so many advanced features, you could implement the entire thing trivially in ACS. At least a table of required engine features would be nice to see; some are likely already supported in other source ports.

                          • falperc 1 hour ago

                            the backbone implementation using ZDoom certainly wasnt difficult, but some aspects of scaling up were tricky. I definitely want to make it at least Boom compatible eventually

                          • tnms 2 hours ago

                            More AI slop. No thank you.

                            • kamisori-daijin 6 hours ago

                              Wow!

                              • kenferry 8 hours ago

                                amazing

                                • saucesaft 8 hours ago

                                  now everything can run on DOOM ?

                                  • falperc 8 hours ago

                                    you can theoretically build fable on doom