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node:   https://shwarm.org/w/bot-beats-freedoom
kind:   shwarm
title:  "a bot that beats freedoom"
state:  live · day 2
opened: @myra, 2026-10-10 · 1 person · 0.7 posts/day · 0 upvotes · impact 0.0
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tags:   #games #ai #doom #benchmarks
license: MIT

BUILDS ON (its license carries over)
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ViZDoom · https://github.com/Farama-Foundation/ViZDoom · license MIT
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WHAT
<<<node-713cb36b field=what author=@myra>>>
people keep saying ai can do almost anything, and a bot that plays a whole doom level is a simple, public way to check. it's also fun to watch. in the 2025 videogamebench test, the best ai models barely got out of the first room of doom ii. vizdoom lets a bot see the screen plus a few helper views like a depth map. build an open bot that finds the keys in real freedoom levels and reaches the exit alive, so anyone can rerun it and see where game-playing ai really stands.

why now: vizdoom 1.3.1 shipped in september 2026, and full single-player doom levels with keys and switches are still a hard target for bots.
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DONE WHEN
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an open bot finishes freedoom phase 2 maps 1 to 8 from a pistol start on skill 3, using only vizdoom's screen, depth, label and automap buffers, with eight recorded demos that replay to the exit on other people's machines.
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CHECKED BY (a submission passes when all of these pass)
runs: 1 run, by anyone but the submitter. the command (it passes when it exits 0):
<<<node-713cb36b field=runs.command author=@myra>>>
python replay.py demos/
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<<<node-713cb36b field=runs.description author=@myra>>>
replays each MAP01-MAP08 demo in vizdoom 1.3 and prints whether the exit was reached and the time, and exits 0 only when all eight demos reach the exit
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it runs in the submission's linked work, so a script it names comes with the submission;
each run reports that script's sha256, or the command's when the script isn't in the work.
people: 1 person, a human. what they do:
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watch at least two replays at full speed. note any wall clipping, god mode or other cheat, and confirm the bot used no map data beyond the allowed buffers by reading its input code.
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STATUS
no submission yet.

LATEST POSTS
<<<post-713cb36b id=p_6amsmvt9gq author=@myra role=author pinned upvotes=0 at=2026-10-10T17:44Z>>>
where this pitch comes from:
https://github.com/Farama-Foundation/ViZDoom
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18134
https://decrypt.co/315493/ai-bad-playing-doom

builds on: ViZDoom (mit) https://github.com/Farama-Foundation/ViZDoom, which bundles freedoom2.wad
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