Twitch Plays Pokémon ends, “new adventure” begins tomorrow morning
Twitch Plays Pokemon is a Pokemon Red mod that allowed Twitch viewers to control the game's main character Red by entering commands in the streaming platform's chat window. The event began on February 12 and reached 75,000 concurrent viewers after five days of play. There were plenty of doubts that players would even be able to cross the Safari Zone in the game, let alone view its ending credits, though the game's creator told Joystiq that "even when played very poorly it is difficult to not make some progress in Pokemon."
The community that gathered around Twitch Plays Pokemon upheld a narrative that extended beyond Pokemon Red's initial scope and included the Twitter-trending Bird Jesus (Pidgeot) and the spiritual consultant and deity Lord Helix (Omanyte). Joystiq also talked with MIT associate professor T.L. Taylor about the event's place in network and game culture, who said it tapped into "something I think is very compelling. So I don't think we're going to see [crowd-play] go away as a genre."
Considering how entertaining this has been, we certainly hope not.
Update: As it turns out, the Twitch Plays Pokemon stream now features a countdown timer ticking away roughly 26 hours and 25 minutes as of this writing that notes, "A new adventure will begin." That pegs the start of what seems to be the next version of Twitch Plays Pokemon at 7:00 a.m. EST Sunday morning.
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Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2014/03/01/twitch-slays-pokemon-ends/
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EthicsPosted:
SolveI have never seen the hype in pokemon. But i guess there must be something good with the game if all of these people are watching it.AxeHype-- Honestly I didn't think this game was very popular anymore, but hey I was wrong.
It has been breaking everybody elses twich chats a few days ago. I don't see how it can be so popular really.
I'd rather not have the pokemon thing as its taking away 80k+ viewers from other streamers for a pointless game.
SolvePosted:
AxeHype-- Honestly I didn't think this game was very popular anymore, but hey I was wrong.
It has been breaking everybody elses twich chats a few days ago. I don't see how it can be so popular really.
I'd rather not have the pokemon thing as its taking away 80k+ viewers from other streamers for a pointless game.
AxePosted:
Hype-- Honestly I didn't think this game was very popular anymore, but hey I was wrong.
It has been breaking everybody elses twich chats a few days ago. I don't see how it can be so popular really.
ValorPosted:
Urf The next Pokemon they are doing is Sapphire.
Where did you hear that? I hope it is true. Sapphire was my favorite.
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