Twitch Plays Pokemon is Complete and Utter Chaos
Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2014 11:52 am
A few days ago, an anonymous Australian programmer created a computer script that has brought chaos to the internet.
Called Twitch Plays Pokemon, the script turns the site's comment box into a controller for the game. Typing "left" will make the player character in the emulated version of Pokemon Red that's being streamed take a step to the left, for example.
Sounds cool right? Well, in principle it undoubtedly is. Of course, in reality, when you have over 60,000 people trying to control the game at once things kinda go off the boil a little bit.
What is the world coming to?!
Luke Karmali is IGN's UK Junior Editor. You too can revel in mediocrity by following him on Twitter.
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Called Twitch Plays Pokemon, the script turns the site's comment box into a controller for the game. Typing "left" will make the player character in the emulated version of Pokemon Red that's being streamed take a step to the left, for example.
Sounds cool right? Well, in principle it undoubtedly is. Of course, in reality, when you have over 60,000 people trying to control the game at once things kinda go off the boil a little bit.
What is the world coming to?!
Luke Karmali is IGN's UK Junior Editor. You too can revel in mediocrity by following him on Twitter.
Continue reading…
Continue reading...