Doom has truly come full circle and is now playable on the purest hellscape of them all - Twitter.
You've all seen that Doom can run on toasters, pregnancy tests, ultrasound devices, pianos, and even a single computer key, but it's now time to recognise that the meme is complete. Doom can now run on Twitter.
With the Tweet2Doom Twitter account, you can now play the world's slowest game of Doom through single inputs. The way it works is that Twitter users can Tweet "/play x,,e,,e,,e,,50-,50-u,15-f" at the bot to start the game, and then have to Tweet specific letters to control the game. Look, we said it runs on Twitter, we didn't say it was easy to do.
The bot will send the user a short clip of gameplay depending on what they decided to do, essentially making this version of Doom a text adventure. We're into it. You can probably imagine how most attempts at playing Doom in such small detail go, with most of the gameplay threads ending very quickly as players realise that it's not so simple to control a game without directly playing it in the moment. It's an impressive piece of coding, though.
Despite the difficulty, there are actually a fair few players managing to get through some sections of the game, with the Twitter Doom account actually sharing some of the most successful attempts. One Twitter user actually managed to get the current Doom on Twitter world-record, managing to beat E1M1 on Hurt Me Plenty difficulty in just under 20 seconds and with only four commands. That's some ingrained Doom knowledge right there.
As difficult as this version of Doom looks to play, we guarantee that some dedicated fans will be combing through this Twitter account and managing to beat the whole game blindfolded with two commands. This is a game that people have managed to get on fridges, of course someone's going to beat a text-adventure Twitter version of it.