You Can Now Play 'Doom' Via Twitter (kotaku.com) 23
"Why not play Doom using Twitter via short commands and videos?" Kotaku asks bored internet users.
"Tweet2Doom is a new Twitter bot that started up in September of this year and which lets folks play through the original game using a series of commands." Those commands are translated to the bot and you are sent back a video showing you what happened, then you can continue to send more commands and progress through levels. The full list of commands and how it works can be found in this pinned tweet from the account...
Tweet2Doom now joins a long and ever-growing list of "Ways To Play Doom." That list includes a pregnancy test, unreleased indie console, cash registers and much, much more.
"Tweet2Doom is a new Twitter bot that started up in September of this year and which lets folks play through the original game using a series of commands." Those commands are translated to the bot and you are sent back a video showing you what happened, then you can continue to send more commands and progress through levels. The full list of commands and how it works can be found in this pinned tweet from the account...
Tweet2Doom now joins a long and ever-growing list of "Ways To Play Doom." That list includes a pregnancy test, unreleased indie console, cash registers and much, much more.
Shows the degree of computer improvement (Score:3, Interesting)
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I couldn't play DOOM on my IBM PS/2 model 30 286 10 Mhz PC. My king's work IBM P70 had no sound card and was too slow. So, I got a custom built 486 DX2/66 PC. It was so nice. :D
You can play anything via Twitter... (Score:2)
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What do you mean? I just did a speed run through the first level - 1 hour, 57 minutes!
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Pasting in a long, wandering, obviously precomposed screed does not make you look more like a human.
A cause for concern. (Score:2)
The juvenile mind cannot distinguish between reality and Twitter.
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Not sure what you call juvenile, but there seems to be a lot of deluded adults who think stuff on Twitter is true.
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play via cash register? (Score:2)
It is pitch black, you are likely to be eaten... (Score:2)
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Each time the previous POTUS tweeted something (Score:2)
it felt like watching a Duke Nukem gameplay. So the idea isn't exactly new.
I'm sure its technically clever (Score:2)
And people nod and appreciate the clever programming behind it, but who the feck is going to play it for more than 10 seconds after the novelty wears off and you realise playing doom using this method is about exciting as tweeting someone to watch paint drying.
Re: I'm sure its technically clever (Score:2)
It's not so much about the gameplay, but the concept behind it.
Yeah, nobody would play this for very long, but the fact that somebody managed to pull it off is very intetesting.
Finally hearing about cool stuff (Score:2)
After hearing so much crap lately regarding social media, it's refreshing to hear about these kinds of cool experiments.
This is a very interesting concept, I just might give it a try.
Just because you can doesn't mean you should (Score:2)
I could play Doom using two paper cups with a string between then, and tell somebody what I want them to do.
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obligatory: you must be fun at parties.
The "Doom pregnancy test" was misrepresented (Score:2)
The Doom on a pregnancy test [pcmag.com] thing really wasn't what people like to say it was.
Basically, the only part of the pregnancy test that was involved was the plastic shell -- the display was taken from something else, and the actual computing was not in the shell at all but done by something outside of the shell.
That said, I think the plan was to fit everything in the shell (except for the controller, I guess) and that would be pretty cool, though I don't know if that has been accomplished yet.