New 'Twitch Plays' App Crowdsources Video Gameplay
 

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 that creates PC game apps, Twitch CrowdPlay lets you anyone to host your very own "Twitch Plays" play-through on the popular Twitch.

See also: The Next Generation of Twitch Plays Pokémon


"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. 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 about the randomness caused by playing a game with a combined 1.16 million people over 16 days Read more...

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