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- openloop 8y agoNice.
- AlphaWeaver 8y agoThis is really cool! I see a lot of these sorts of projects, where DOOM is either ported to another platform, or some additional integration is done... Having not played it, is there something specific about DOOM which makes it so easily accessible to these sorts of hacks?
- jsd1982 8y agoGenerating the layout of a map for DOOM is easy since the maps are essentially just 2-D structures composed of convex polygons with variable heights thrown in at the polygon level (aka sector). I'd imagine everything but the 2D geometry of the scanned area is randomly generated (textures, item and monster placement, heights of sectors, light levels, etc).
- merlincorey 8y agoIt has been open source for a long time and many great write ups and explorations of said source have been available. It is known to be high quality and hackable, by orignal design and later hard work of fans.
- jonathanfoster 8y agoBy far the best write up is Fabien Sanglard’s Doom Game Engine Black Book [1]. The amount of detail and depth is just incredible. [1] http://fabiensanglard.net/gebbdoom/ http://fabiensanglard.net/gebbdoom/
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- unixhero 8y agoTry it. It's so much fun even today.
- jsd1982 8y agoSeconded! I recently went back to the vanilla game and am playing through it trying to get 100% completion. It's very well designed and well balanced as well. Whenever I find myself low on health or ammo, there's usually a fresh box right around the corner, with plenty of secret areas to discover that are creatively hidden. Above all, it's just plain fun!
- pjc50 8y agoIt's 2.5D and much smaller than average 3D games. The original game requires 4MB of RAM and a 386 processor, which these days is outclassed by microcontrollers.
- HeavyStorm 8y ago1. The Doom engine is arguably a work of art. Not for the faint of heart, surely, but well done, very well optimized and carries a simplicity that only a few of us (ie John Carmack) can achieve. 2. It was also open sourced a very long time ago by id software, which enabled a lot of tweaking by the community, and, therefore, a lot of knowledge. 3. Doom is a very famous game, having made a lot of success during it days. Everyone with even the smallest interest in games or computers that was alive back then probably played it. 4. Both Wolfenstein and Quake are also open source but the former is too simple when compared to Doom and Quake is too complex. As others have stated, Doom has 2.5D maps whereas Quake have full fledged, 3D maps. All of this together surely makes it a good candidate for this type of experiment
- pc86 8y agoWhen you say 2.5D do you mean that the map appears 3D but the player moves on a 2D plane?
- ajiang 8y agoThese projects are my favorite type of content on HN, where the question of "Why?" is met with "Because I can".
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- superkuh 8y agoHis custom captcha for comments is as funny as the roomba project.
- msla 8y agoGiven how well text-recognition works now, I'm sure it's absolutely wonderful at keeping out blind people.
- dmix 8y agoIt's a very difficult problem to solve for small independent blogs like this... without handing over your data to Disqus or some 3rd party captcha system. Not everyone is comfortable with using those. Not that it isn't still a problem and trade-off.
- TimesOldRoman 8y agoWould the "click all fire hydrants" type be easier to program and add accessibility support?
- dmix 8y agoI hate those picture ones. They all seem to take longer than figuring out the skewed text. But I might be in the minority opinion on this one, idk.
- KajMagnus 8y agoI have a small and independent blog, and zero blog comments spam — I think it's related to requiring manual approval of each new persons first few posts. (The comments software is open source, link in my profile)
- owl57 8y agoIs it more difficult in the English-speaking part of the Internet? My captcha for small sites entirely consists of a decoy <input type=submit style="display:none"> for, like, last ten years.
- Mtinie 8y agoThank you for winning the internet today. This is the best of all the reasons hackers hack. Kudos.
- walrus01 8y agoIn Dari (Afghan dialect of Farsi), doomba is the fat part that hangs off the rear end of a fat tailed sheep. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat-tailed_sheep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat-tailed_sheep https://books.google.ca/books?id=rcjmiBm8hHQC&pg=PA324&lpg=PA324&dq=doomba+sheep&source=bl&ots=5_KatbiwEo&sig=5qYAAhBIfV89oxj3yqWVKmAif_A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiy8KOzibrfAhXsj4MKHUh8CkcQ6AEwDHoECFsQAQ#v=onepage&q=doomba%20sheep&f=false https://books.google.ca/books?id=rcjmiBm8hHQC&pg=PA324&lpg=P...
- eximius 8y agoDelicious.
- bhhaskin 8y agoThis reminds me of why I love the internet. Cool projects like this. Thanks for posting this.
- stonewhite 8y agoFor some reason I thought roomba was playing doomba at real time. Coming to think of it, it might be a good idea
- mcdevilkiller 8y agoI thought the exact same. Could be pretty awesome.
- ObsoleteNerd 8y agoThis is absolutely amazing. Is there anyone out there collecting these projects in a list somewhere? I know they pop up on HN, but they get lost in the noise unless you remember to bookmark them all. There's something special about hacking existing consumer hardware to do geeky things.
- walterbell 8y agoIs there a project which does analytics on public HN bookmarks/favorites?
- alpn 8y agoWell, now there’s one: http://hn-projects.com http://hn-projects.com feel free to add your own favorite projects. If there’s enough interest I'll turn into an actual website.
- m4r35n357 8y agohttp://psdoom.sourceforge.net/ http://psdoom.sourceforge.net/
- joe_momma 8y agoThis brings back the memories of staying up late at night to play doom with a friend over dial up. Great hack.
- Endy 8y agoAn interesting Xmas gift for the hacker community. So now, DOOM doesn't just run on a toaster; it also runs on vacuum cleaners. Or more, vacuum cleaners can input data to DOOM!
- ineedasername 8y agoHuh, robots integrate with Doom. I suppose it could be used to help train them for combat FPS games, not just doom. It would be nice if they added cloud support, only "cloud" is so mundane and cliched now... maybe instead of cloud we could call it "Sky", and because it's all just part of a network, maybe something like "SkyNet".
- andrewflnr 8y agoSomeone should run this in a hotel room or something, so they can have puts on sunglasses a .noeroomba in the inn.
- klyrs 8y agoWe need a mashup with psDoom. Where your suckbot battles the inner demons in its own head. And inevitably kills its own kernel before it's even made it out of the kitchen
- vidarh 8y agopsDoom is one of those things I only ever looked at for about 5 minutes, but that is still one of those seminal projects in software visualisation. Alongside things like FSN(1) as referenced in Jurassic Park. (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn_(file_manager) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn_(file_manager)