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06-04-2014, 07:33 PM
New 'Twitch Plays' App Crowdsources Video Gameplay
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A new app lets thousands of viewers control how a game is played on the video-game streaming platform Twitch.
Developed by Overwolf, a gaming startup (http://www.overwolf.com/about-overwolf/) that creates PC game apps, Twitch CrowdPlay lets you anyone to host your very own "Twitch Plays" play-through on the popular Twitch (http://mashable.com/2014/05/18/youtube-buys-twitch/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss).
See also: The Next Generation of Twitch Plays Pokémon (http://mashable.com/2014/04/16/choice-chamber/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
"Twitch Plays" refers to the type of crowdsourced video game play-through where viewers of a Twitch broadcast participate in controlling the game by inputting commands — up, down, left right, etc. — into Twitch's chat box
The phe**me**n started in February when a Twitch broadcaster decided to create a channel called Twitch Plays Pokémon (http://mashable.com/2014/02/28/twitch-plays-pokemon/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss). More than 100,000 viewers tuned in to watch, play and passionately contribute to the play through of childhood classic Pokémon Red. Some fans even created cult religions and mythologies (http://mashable.com/2014/02/19/pokemon-stream-twitch/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) about the randomness caused by playing a game with a combined 1.16 million people (http://mashable.com/2014/04/16/choice-chamber/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) over 16 days Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/04/twitch-plays-app/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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A new app lets thousands of viewers control how a game is played on the video-game streaming platform Twitch.
Developed by Overwolf, a gaming startup (http://www.overwolf.com/about-overwolf/) that creates PC game apps, Twitch CrowdPlay lets you anyone to host your very own "Twitch Plays" play-through on the popular Twitch (http://mashable.com/2014/05/18/youtube-buys-twitch/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss).
See also: The Next Generation of Twitch Plays Pokémon (http://mashable.com/2014/04/16/choice-chamber/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
"Twitch Plays" refers to the type of crowdsourced video game play-through where viewers of a Twitch broadcast participate in controlling the game by inputting commands — up, down, left right, etc. — into Twitch's chat box
The phe**me**n started in February when a Twitch broadcaster decided to create a channel called Twitch Plays Pokémon (http://mashable.com/2014/02/28/twitch-plays-pokemon/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss). More than 100,000 viewers tuned in to watch, play and passionately contribute to the play through of childhood classic Pokémon Red. Some fans even created cult religions and mythologies (http://mashable.com/2014/02/19/pokemon-stream-twitch/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) about the randomness caused by playing a game with a combined 1.16 million people (http://mashable.com/2014/04/16/choice-chamber/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) over 16 days Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/04/twitch-plays-app/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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