{"id":57900,"date":"2018-12-27T03:09:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T10:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/let-your-new-roomba-build-a-doom-level-of-your-house-with-doomba\/"},"modified":"2018-12-27T03:09:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T10:09:46","slug":"let-your-new-roomba-build-a-doom-level-of-your-house-with-doomba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/let-your-new-roomba-build-a-doom-level-of-your-house-with-doomba\/","title":{"rendered":"Let your new Roomba build a Doom level of your house with DOOMBA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of you out there may be lucky enough to have received over the holidays a fancy new robot vacuum. Turns out it\u2019s even more useful than you\u2019d think: in addition to cleaning your home, it can scan its surroundings and produce a Doom level of your home! Just the right thing to ring in the new year: Hell on Earth.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not an official iRobot <\/span><\/a> feature, unfortunately, but rather a hack put together by veteran game engineer Rich Whitehouse<\/a>. He noticed that Roombas were actually putting together some pretty detailed environment data with their sensors, and naturally felt this capability should be applied to a 25-year-old video game<\/a>.<\/p>\n

By combining Doom with Roomba, Whitehouse realized he would not only be able to make something fun, but to \u201cunleash a truly terrible pun to plague humankind.\u201d To wit: DOOMBA.<\/p>\n

It works like this, though if you don\u2019t have a Roomba 980, there\u2019s no guarantee it\u2019ll work at all: Using a special utility, your PC will detect the Roomba on the wireless network and begin tracking its movements and collected data. When the little robot has done its work, the data is saved in a file, which you can then convert to a Doom wad via DOOMBA, a plugin for Whitehouse\u2019s Noesis image\/model conversion app<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The shape of the level will be taken from your place, but of course things may look a little different. More monsters, probably. That depends on the randomization settings you choose, which control what weapons, critters, and other features show up in this hellish new version of your home.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all free, except for Doom and the Roomba, so if you have both, get cracking. Thanks to Rich for this fun holiday distractio.<\/p>\n

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Some of you out there may be lucky enough to have received over the holidays a fancy new robot vacuum. Turns out it\u2019s even more useful than you\u2019d think: in addition to cleaning your home, it can scan its surroundings and produce a Doom level of your home! Just the right thing to ring in… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t