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80,000 players control single Pokemon game by chat

posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday February 18 2014, @11:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the infinite-Primapes-with-infinite-gamepads dept.

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."

 
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  • (Score: 1) by gallondr00nk on Wednesday February 19 2014, @09:45AM

    by gallondr00nk (392) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @09:45AM (#2288)

    I'm not so sure how much drift occurs if you continuously watch a stream without any buffering occurrences for a few hours, but even when you first load the feed you will be roughly half a minute behind immediately.

    I can confirm Twitch definately drifts further behind the longer you watch it. I used to be quite into watching Speedrun streams on it, and it was pretty well understood that watching for a couple of hours would add a couple of minutes to the delay.