laserfusion writes:
"CNET is reporting on a massively-mono-player gaming experiment. From the article :
In what can only be described as the best thing to happen to Valentine's Day, about 12,000 people are participating in a collective game of Pokemon Red on the live game-streaming service Twitch, all by simply typing in directions in the comment box in a messy frenzy. Not every single one of the viewers is mashing in commands of course, but because anyone with a Twitch account can comment on a public stream, any viewer is a potential player in this wacky experiment.
Currently there are 80,000 players. Despite all the noise and trolls, they were able to make progress in the game and multiple goals have been achieved. Now there is a new control mode "democracy" in which the most popular commands in every 10 seconds are executed. "Democracy" and "anarchy" modes can be switched by a 75% vote."
(Score: 1) by linsane on Wednesday February 19 2014, @01:23AM
The other place got this a day ago? Well a cursory glance at TFS does note that this was from Valentine's Day, (14 Feb??) not exactly too quick off the block from either.
Reddit has been going a little bit crazy from what I can tell for the last few days http://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/search? q=twitch&sort=relevance&restrict_sr=on&t=all [reddit.com] and there is all sorts of oddness being talked about fossils and things. A very odd phenomenon indeed