Back in 2014, he released a third-person RPG that follows the AVALANCHE group from Final Fantasy 7, and he’s also released a Triple Triad game based on the mini-game in Final Fantasy 8. When you look at the catalog of Whitehouse’s work understanding how he thought up Doomba makes a bit more sense. The conversion program, Noesis, is free to use, as is everything that Whitehouse has created. Whitehouse has given detailed instructions for how you lucky few with your own Roomba can recreate its cleaning routes and turn them into Doom maps of your own. From there he used the data with his conversion tool, Noesis, where he was able to recreate the Roomba route into a map for the original Doom. But freelance programmer and designer Rich Whitehouse noticed that he was able to track the routes of his Roomba and see that route as visual data. The program lets players track Roombas and then turn their routes into playable Doom maps from 1993.įor those of you who don’t know what a Roomba is, it’s a self-driving vacuum robot that doesn’t so much clean as it does transport small, household animals or just bang into walls. Doomba is a new tool that turns Roomba cleaning routes into Doom maps If you have one of the robot vacuuming units you can now use it to generate Doom levels - what a world we live in Chris. How many times have you caught yourself vacuuming and thought “this would make an amazing map in Doom!” Well, if you have then you’re in luck because Doomba is a Christmas treat thought up by programmer and designer Rich Whitehouse.

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