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Tweet2Doom lets you play Doom via TwitterTweet commands, it tweets back a video
Tweet commands, it tweets back a video
Doomis now playable on Twitter - sort of. Thanks toTweet2Doombot, you can send replies to the account with a list of actions - move, turn, shoot, etc. - and get a video clip of Doom showing the results sent back to you.
It’s sort of Doom but turn-based. Your best is to send a small number of actions, get a short video back, and then adjust accordingly. That’s not stopped some people from doing the opposite though and just speeding through levels. Here’s E1M1 completed in 11 seconds, the current record:
🏆 New Record! 🏆⠀Best time for E1M1Difficulty: Hurt me plentyTime: 0:11Commands: 2⠀Tweet chain:https://t.co/mhpxzlst6sNode:https://t.co/zl7DtHYrJc🎥#t2d_speedrunspic.twitter.com/7vKQSNFsZT— Tweet2Doom (@tweet2doom)October 16, 2021
🏆 New Record! 🏆⠀Best time for E1M1Difficulty: Hurt me plentyTime: 0:11Commands: 2⠀Tweet chain:https://t.co/mhpxzlst6sNode:https://t.co/zl7DtHYrJc🎥#t2d_speedrunspic.twitter.com/7vKQSNFsZT
You can see from the source tweet that the instructions you need to send to the Twitter bot look complicated - eg. “4-f,13-usf,3-usl<” and so on. Thistweet contains the instructions. The numbers define how many frames an action should be performed for, while the letters denote actions. Ithinkmy quoted example says: shoot for four frames, then run forward while shooting for 13 frames, then run forward and strafe left for 3 frames.
Personally, I’m just enjoying watching other people try, ten seconds at a time. The bot tweets out random collections of clips, too:
🎥 Random playsAuto-generated highlights of 10 random@tweet2doomnodespic.twitter.com/ptW7hPrHGm— Tweet2Doom (@tweet2doom)October 16, 2021
🎥 Random playsAuto-generated highlights of 10 random@tweet2doomnodespic.twitter.com/ptW7hPrHGm
Doom runs on everything froma Game & Watchtoinside a pregnancy kit. There’s aTumblr dedicated to collecting every newly supported machine. Unlike most, Tweet2Doom is one you can take part in, though.Have at it.
