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Doom Fan Brings The Game Kicking And Screaming Into 2024 With Microtransactions

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:James Lucas

Published May 1, 2024

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This Doom mod--made at the Boston Stupid Sh*t No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon--imagines a version of the game in which you have to pay for pickups.
Every time you walk into a health or armour pack, a QR code will pop up and freeze the game until you enter your payment details.
For this awful idea, Guy Dupont earned an "I Made A Stupid Thing" award.

You know what Doom (1993) really needs? Microtransactions. All those free health and armour packs lying around are a waste. Imagine the big bucks id Software could've made if it had monetised the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Cacodemon out of 'em.

This dystopian alternate history is exactly what Guy Dupont has brought to life for the 'Boston Stupid Sh*t No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon." In their version of Doom, walking up to a consumable freezes your game until you scan the QR code and enter your payment details. With your wallet taking equally as much damage as you did, you can finally continue your doomslaying.

"The game is actually modified," Dupont said in a follow-up tweet. "I jammed libcurl into the chocolate Doom Source port and wrote a little Python server to generate QR codes and handle the pa𓃲yment info."

What Is The Boston Stupid Sh*t No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon?

Since 2017, this event has called on people to come together at the MIT Muse💜um at Cambridge to develop "terrible, useless,💞 [and] horrifying" apps or hardware in an incredibly tight window.

Some of the highlights from the event over the years include a Game Boy turned Vape, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Flappy Bird but you scream to jump, and a Snapchat-like anime filter. All participants even earn♏ a little "I Made A Stupid Thing" award♒ to commemorate their.... efforts. If you can call the horror of what Dupont turned Doom (1993) into that.