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New comment by falperc in "Show HN: I Turned DOOM into a Transformer"

falperc — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 08:57:35 +0000

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

New comment by falperc in "Show HN: I Turned DOOM into a Transformer"

falperc — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 06:57:51 +0000

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

New comment by falperc in "I built a neural network using DOOM games"

falperc — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 06:48:59 +0000

Thank you!!

New comment by falperc in "I built a neural network using DOOM games"

falperc — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 06:48:43 +0000

Useless is an understatement!

New comment by falperc in "Show HN: I Turned DOOM into a Transformer"

falperc — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 06:47:59 +0000

It helped me write my docs!

New comment by falperc in "Show HN: I Turned DOOM into a Transformer"

falperc — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 06:47:33 +0000

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

New comment by falperc in "Show HN: I Turned DOOM into a Transformer"

falperc — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 03:04:51 +0000

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

New comment by falperc in "Show HN: I Turned DOOM into a Transformer"

falperc — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:54:40 +0000

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

New comment by falperc in "Show HN: I Turned DOOM into a Transformer"

falperc — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:46:31 +0000

you can theoretically build fable on doom

New comment by falperc in "Show HN: I Turned DOOM into a Transformer"

falperc — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:46:11 +0000

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

Show HN: I Turned DOOM into a Transformer

falperc — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 23:25:46 +0000

Instead of trying to run DOOM on things, I have instead decided to use DOOM (many, many, many doom games actually) to create a transformer. For a lot of the math required I essentially had to use DOOM game mechanics and voodoo dolls (DOOM is turing complete btw) and exchange them with the actual operations, essentially creating an alternative to NumPy (a 65000x slower one). Thus, I am proud to present DOOMFORMER. Here are a list of things DOOMFORMER can do :

It can classify MNIST digits, even if you write these digits on the map!

It can talk(kinda)

You can use it to make decisions, so, it can play DOOM. Yes! You can play DOOM with thousands of DOOM games now! The marine's mind can be controlled by DOOM, playing on a map generated by DOOMFORMER. Truly, the possibilities are endless, and even larger-scale training of DOOMFORMER could be done on a measly T4.

If anyone would like to help me scale this up and make crazier things, I'd love to work together.