The Roomba ’s most sinister - sounding feature article — recording function of your home that iRobot chief executive officer Colin Angle swears he willtotally never sell to advertisers — can now be used for more overtly hellish purposes thanks to Doomba , a tool that converts Roomba map for use in the 1993 shooter Doom .
In just a few steps , Doomba can create a floor based on Roomba ’s computer memory of a location , Polygon reported . It ’s yet another nifty technical trick in the recollective and celebrated tradition of Doom political hack , which has involved everything frombizarre mod packsto running the game ontoastersandprinters .
The results can seen below in a tweet from developer Rich Whitehouse :
DOOMBA : Turn your Roomba ’s Clean Maps into DOOM maps!https://t.co/FEgu03Nx5u#doom#DOOM25@romero@ID_AA_Carmackpic.twitter.com/OmDL2CJuXw
— Rich Whitehouse ( @DickWhitehouse)December 24 , 2018
“ I presently realized that there was a light opportunity to serve the Dark Lord by conceive a overplus of unhallowed algorithmic rule in religious service to one of the finest works ever created in his name , ” Whitehousewrote in a blog post . “ Simultaneously , I would be able-bodied to unleash a truly terrible pun to plague humankind . Now , the fruit of my labor is born . I bring forward DOOMBA , a half - caprine animal , half - script creature , with aboriginal binary backing for the expensive share , to be offered in place of my firstborn on this o.k. Christmas Eve . ”
“ Some will say that it ’s otiose , but I have organized religion in my pith that the Dark Lord will wipe these mass from the face of the earth and trap them in a dimension of unending red region , ” Whitehouse added . “ Their suffering will be legendary . ”
agree to Whitehouse ’s post , Doomba is more or less a plugin for Noesis , a dick that converts plus to different file types for use in game maturation . The plugin allows for user to mechanically download the floor map from a Roomba — Whitehouse only tested it with a 980 role model , so gas mileage may depart — via wi - fi .
Doomba rely on random seeds to generate the levels using default texture and enemies , and it ’s unlikely to result in anything but a very brief grade without some fiddling unless you have a very tumid house . But Whitehouse write it ’s possible to sew together multiple mathematical function to make larger ones , as well as tweak various context such as enemy and weapon spawn rate .
The hack writer work because Doom is , despite appearing 3-D , more or less a two - dimensional biz ( the original games were incapable of having multi - storied point ) . As Whitehouse mention , that means Doomba can also be used to create Doom function out of any static figure , but “ I ca n’t foretell my unholy algorithm target at Roomba maps wo n’t fall over if you start confuse all kinds of random crap at them . ”
In any case , we ’ve come a long means since the 90s , when Doom itself was controversial and maps based on real - life locations were more so ( especially a long - track , and apparently baseless , myth that the 1999 Columbine High School massacre was planned via maps base on the school day ) . Advancements in reckoner engineering science since then have made sprite - based force about as innocuous as can be , so no one ’s fit to bat an eye when you tell them you ’re shoot demons in a map based on your theatre .
As Polygon note , Neosis is complimentary butdonations are encouraged . If mess around with Doomba has rekindled your love of ripping and tearing , the Doomworld fansite recently put up a lean of thebest Doom mods of 2018from the game ’s modding community , which is still going hard 25 years after its original release .
[ Polygon ]
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