Show HN: I Turned DOOM into a Transformer

82 points by falperc 9 hours ago on hackernews | 24 comments

now everything can run on DOOM ?

: [OP] falperc | 7 hours ago
you can theoretically build fable on doom

amazing

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.

: [OP] falperc | 7 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...

: [OP] 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

andai | 6 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.

[OP] falperc | 5 hours ago

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

fwip | 4 hours ago

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

: [OP] falperc | an hour ago
That’s entirely fair. I’ll certainly work on editing the docs and making them more legible over time.

jacquesm | 2 hours ago

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

tnms | an hour ago

Yes. Don't be lazy.

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"?

: [OP] falperc | an hour ago
It helped me write my docs!

kamisori-daijin | 6 hours ago

Wow!

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.

: [OP] falperc | an 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

bjconlan | 3 hours ago

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

tnms | an hour ago

More AI slop. No thank you.

nico | an 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

kuberwastaken | 6 minutes ago

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