Show HN: I Turned DOOM into a Transformer

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87 points | by falperc 10 hours ago ago

27 comments

  • mg794613 an hour ago 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 8 hours ago 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 7 hours ago ago

      Oh, it's AI word-vomit.

      • MarsZebra 4 hours ago ago

        I pity the AI agent that had to work on this

      • autoexec 4 hours ago ago

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

        • falperc 3 hours ago ago

          It helped me write my docs!

      • falperc 6 hours ago ago

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

        • jacquesm 3 hours ago ago

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

        • fwip 6 hours ago ago

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

          • falperc 3 hours ago ago

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

        • tnms 3 hours ago ago

          Yes. Don't be lazy.

  • bjconlan 5 hours ago ago

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

  • slowin 9 hours ago 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 9 hours ago ago

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

  • kuberwastaken an hour ago ago

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

  • stmonty 9 hours ago 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 9 hours ago 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

  • mattmcal 6 hours ago 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 3 hours ago 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

  • nico 2 hours ago 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

  • ReptileMan 39 minutes ago ago

    Next step - take the cpu implemented in transformers implement it here and make it play doom. The compute needed still won't be able run Crysis well though.

    • falperc 32 minutes ago ago

      oh my god i thought the crysis thing was a Turkish joke i didnt know it was international

  • tnms 3 hours ago ago

    More AI slop. No thank you.

  • kenferry 9 hours ago ago

    amazing

  • kamisori-daijin 7 hours ago ago

    Wow!

  • saucesaft 10 hours ago ago

    now everything can run on DOOM ?

    • falperc 9 hours ago ago

      you can theoretically build fable on doom