Show HN: I Turned DOOM into a Transformer

Category: ai-ml

Tags: doom, neural-networks, esoteric-computing, vizdoom, integer-arithmetic

Score: 7.0/10 (Innovation: 9, Technical: 9, Documentation: 8, Utility: 2)

Doomformer compiles integer neural networks into ZDoom maps, using voodoo dolls and sector light levels/plane heights as computational primitives, then runs them in ViZDoom and verifies every value against a NumPy integer reference with tolerance zero. It's a wild, technically impressive esoteric-computing stunt that demonstrates exact in-game arithmetic and even attention mechanisms, but it is extremely slow and has little practical utility.

Target audience: hobbyist programmers, esoteric computing enthusiasts, game engine tinkerers

Repository: https://github.com/mottopanikeiku/doomformer · Python · MIT · 4 stars

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