WADINFO.TXT - a twitter bot that posts level names

[JPL]

A while ago I whipped up something inane that yall might enjoy:

https://twitter.com/wadinfo_txt

It's a twitter bot that looks for level names (Doom, Heretic/Hexen, whatever it can find) on the Doom wiki and posts a random one. Source code is here if you're curious how it works:
https://bitbucket.org/JPLeBreton/wadbot

I have a much more ambitious idea for a twitter/tumblr bot, which is to do something like Stochastic Planet http://stochasticplanet.tumblr.com but for a random location in a random level WAD downloaded from idgames. That would be a lot of work and might involve hacking a source port's code though.

[40oz]

Maybe you could load up on demos from the doomed speed demos archive and have it play a random uv-max demo and take a screenshot during playback? Make sure to credit the authors of the maps and the person who recorded the demo.

[traversd]

Is it supposed to link back to the related page on the Doom wiki? If not that would be a nice addition (if that is allowed?)

[clamgor]

Well this seems swell.

[MFG38]

Sorry if this is unrelated, but can I by any chance have the name of the wad with the maps named after songs off of NIN's The Fragile album?

[clamgor]

MFG38 said:

Sorry if this is unrelated, but can I by any chance have the name of the wad with the maps named after songs off of NIN's The Fragile album?

Couldn't you have just put it in the "Trying to Find a specific WAD" thread?

[MFG38]

Crasger said:

Couldn't you have just put it in the "Trying to Find a specific WAD" thread?

If I'd heard of such a wad before, I could have.

[clamgor]

MFG38 said:

If I'd heard of such a wad before, I could have.

But you just said you wanted the name of the wad with the maps named after songs from a NiN album.

[MFG38]

Crasger said:

But you just said you wanted the name of the wad with the maps named after songs from a NiN album.

I apologize if you misinterpreted my message to mean "the" wad while I actually meant "a" wad.
EDIT: It just occurred to me that the misinterpretation is rather easy to make... -.-

[JPL]

MFG38 said:

Sorry if this is unrelated, but can I by any chance have the name of the wad with the maps named after songs off of NIN's The Fragile album?

This was an old project of mine I'll probably never finish sadly. I got 3 or 4 levels in and ran out of steam... too massive an undertaking. I put the names in the "easter egg" list of fictional levels as an homage, any others you don't recognize are probably from that as well.