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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday December 27 2018, @12:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the but-does-it-doom-windows? dept.

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'Doomba' turns your Roomba's cleaning maps into Doom levels

It's practically a rule in tech: If it has electricity, eventually it will run Doom. Now a Roomba might have been a bit tricky to work into that equation, given the lack of things like a screen, but game developer Rich Whitehouse has found a way with a new tool he calls "Doomba" that can take floor map data from the smart cleaning robots and convert it into Doom levels, according to Polygon.

The idea first started when Whitehouse and his wife were researching robot vacuums. Honestly, nothing will beat Whitehouse's own explanation for the tool's original, so I'll let him take it from here:

I soon realized that there was a clear opportunity to serve the Dark Lord by conceiving a plethora of unholy algorithms in service to one of the finest works ever created in his name. Simultaneously, I would be able to unleash a truly terrible pun to plague humankind. Now, the fruit of my labor is born. I bring forth DOOMBA, a half-goat, half-script creature, with native binary backing for the expensive parts, to be offered in place of my firstborn on this fine Christmas Eve.

[...] Is this useful? Not exactly, but it's at least fun. For his part, Whitehall doesn't seem too concerned. "Some will say that it's pointless, but I have faith in my heart that the Dark Lord will wipe these people from the face of the earth and trap them in a dimension of eternal hellfire. Their suffering will be legendary."


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  • (Score: 2) by Hyper on Thursday December 27 2018, @02:36PM (1 child)

    by Hyper (1525) on Thursday December 27 2018, @02:36PM (#778998) Journal

    Does it have to be Doom?

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  • (Score: 2) by looorg on Thursday December 27 2018, @04:52PM

    by looorg (578) on Thursday December 27 2018, @04:52PM (#779036)

    There is probably some kind of conversion tool but you are sort of missing half the experience then. As I recall it Quake had jumping and maps was in X-Y-Z while Doom was more or less just flat X-Y. So unless you really pimp your Roomba it would be a very flat experience.

    At first I was thinking that this would be very small levels unless you live in a mansion, but then I guess it's from the Roombas perspective so the the levels might actually become fairly large.