The Roomba’s most sinister-sounding feature—recording maps of your home that iRobot CEO Colin Angle swears he will totally never sell to advertisers—can now be used for more overtly hellish purposes thanks to Doomba, a tool that converts Roomba maps for use in the 1993 shooter Doom.
The Roomba’s most sinister-sounding feature—recording maps of your home that iRobot CEO Colin Angle swears he will totally never sell to advertisers —can now be used for more overtly hellish purposes thanks to Doomba, a tool that converts Roomba maps for use in the 1993 shooter Doom.
In just a few steps, Doomba can create a level based on Roomba’s memory of a location, Polygon reported. It’s yet another nifty technical trick in the long and storied tradition of Doom hacks, which has involved everything from bizarre mod packs to running the game on toasters and printers.
The results can seen below in a tweet from developer Rich Whitehouse:
“I soon realized that there was a clear opportunity to serve the Dark Lord by conceiving a plethora of unholy algorithms in service to one of the finest works ever created in his name,” Whitehouse wrote in a blog post . “Simultaneously, I would be able to unleash a truly terrible pun to plague humankind.
