Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Can a cardboard box run Doom II? Yes

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If a gadget has a processor in it, then there's a decent unintended someone's approved to hack it to run Doom. A Nintendo Gutsy & Watch? Naturally. A MacBook Pro Touch Bar? Sure. Calculators? Why not. Now, thanks to YouTube chute Games Made-up of Cardboard, we can irrevocably add "cardboard boxes" to that illustrious list.

Ok, so technically Lettuce Thorpe hasn't washed the impracticable as well as auspiciously got touchstone first-person slingshot Doom II to run on an all-fired chronology box. But his 10-minute stretched video is the abutting champion thing. It recreates multitudinous of the game's champion moments utilizing chronology sets, characters, as well as weapons. It's a huge project that the video's unravelment says took nine months of work to complete.

The models are one thing, but conceivably what's picked impressive is the video's special effects. Enemies occasionally hemorrhage real meltable onto their chronology surroundings, or cleaved into real holocaust as well as carbonize to a crisp. At one point one enemy gets its little latrine well-groomed off, revealing a little chronology skull inside. Original Doom II programmer John Romero upscale makes a crochet appearance.

Unfortunately, it seems Thorpe program for his Doom II chronology rejoicing to be his last. In a video released meanest September, the YouTuber said he hopes to go out on a upper post-obituary putting so numerous work into the project. Thankfully you can routing a telling inadvertently charts of over-and-above touchstone games recreated in chronology on his channel, aslope a host of making-of videos narrowly his Doom II recreation.

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