rats learning how to play doom

[Rata asquerosa]

A Neuroengineer’s Guide on Training Rats to Play Doom | by Viktor Tóth | Mindsoft | Medium

 

Rats in Doom: a novel VR setup for rodents | Mindsoft

 

Obviously, I find all this stuff cool and exciting.

[ant]

On 11/23/2021 at 11:59 AM, BoxY said:

Damn, he's already better than me.

Pffbt. My friend, Mousey, had been playing video games for decades. He is way better than this rat. ;P

 

As an ant, I had been playing video games since the rad 80s starting with Pac-Man, arcades, etc. I fell love in classic FPSes like DOOM too. ;)

[ant]

On 11/23/2021 at 2:44 PM, Zero Master's Clone said:

next we will see bugs destroying speedrun world records across all DOOM games

I had failed to do it as a bug. :(

[Gez]

It's using the Doom game for an experiment, but the rat is not actually playing Doom. The map has an extremely simplistic geometry (just a straight corridor), the only actions are "move forward" and "attack obstacle", exit doors are not opened, just clipped through, and the poor imp has been nerfed so it cannot even defend itself.

[Ragu]

17 minutes ago, Gez said:

It's using the Doom game for an experiment, but the rat is not actually playing Doom. The map has an extremely simplistic geometry (just a straight corridor), the only actions are "move forward" and "attack obstacle", exit doors are not opened, just clipped through, and the poor imp has been nerfed so it cannot even defend itself.

For now, but this is all leading up to some rats of NIMH shit where big brain rats do MAP30 pacifist

[Gez]

9 hours ago, Ragu said:

For now, but this is all leading up to some rats of NIMH shit where big brain rats do MAP30 pacifist

Did you know the rats of NIMH was based on a true story?

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-doomed-mouse-utopia-that-inspired-the-rats-of-nimh

[BetelgeuseSupergiant]

On 11/24/2021 at 12:58 AM, Teo Slayer said:

Before we had DOOM running on every device, now we have animals playing DOOM

Can we get a hippopotamus or an elephant to play DOOM now?

Bacteria plays DOOM :D

[big smoke]

a small news report 
this is getting better 

[Cruduxy Pegg]

Soon we will be able to tell people a rat has both more viewers on twitch and plays better than them.

[ant]

I'm an ant that played classic DOOM back in the 90s. ;)

[Biodegradable]

On 12/19/2021 at 8:17 PM, bigsmoke1919 said:

a small news report 
this is getting better 

 

Here's an article from Destructoid going into further details about that.