Twitter bot takes ‘years’ to play Doom, one frame at a time
Those of us who are helplessly addicted to Twitter are familiar with the term “doomscrolling” — the act of scrolling through thread after thread through all the terrible things happening in the world at a given moment. You can refresh your routine with the Doomscroll Doom Bot, a Twitter account dedicated to posting full playthroughs of the legendary FPS game Ultimate Doom, one frame at a time.
The bot is posting images pulled from a play on Ultimate Doom’s Longplay Archive, which is available on YouTube if you want to watch it the boring old-fashioned way. Every hour, the account posts a new frame, working backwards from the end, one second at a time.
Since it “runs” at one frame per second, you won’t get the flip-book effect from scrolling through the posts so far. Now, it’s still finishing Ultimate Doom’s final level, E4M8, which wraps up the “new” Thy Flesh Consumed episode it added to the original level set.
Here’s an example tweet:
Doom15724.png pic.twitter.com/9C609qNZB3
— Doomscroll DOOM Bot (@DoomscrollDOOM) January 19, 2022
Doomscroll Doom Bot was created by two New York copywriters, Steve Nass and Owen Weeks. Nass told us the bot works “whenever you’re done sifting through Twitter for the most depressing/horrible news you can find, and just want to watch demons get shot and chainsaws for a while – arguably a bigger deal than current events. More sunny topic days.”
The full playback process will take about 15,700 individual frames in total, which will take “years” to complete. Once you’re done, Nas explained that you can simply navigate to your account and hold down the space bar to watch a “speedrun” of the game.
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