"It'll be interesting to see how other sports look at Twitch and how it inspires them," said Chase (just Chase), Twitch's PR director.Īs Twitch evolves, video games are evolving with them. (Image credit: A look at NBA G League's interactive broadcasts. That's a level of immersion you simply don't get from just catching the action on TV. Thanks to Extensions, these games allowed viewers to pull up stats from any team or athlete, right from the site's video player.
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Just a few months later, Twitch hosted a series of NBA G League games. Last September, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver was quoted as saying he wants the NBA to look more like Twitch, to better engage fans. Interactive broadcasting isn't just influencing the way we watch people play video games it's also seeping its way into sports and entertainment. It ties into everyone should be a participant in the viewing experience." The future is interactive "You can use bits to actually enable experiences that couldn't happen up until now. "So, an example is, you have an extension that is your avatar, and people can contribute to that avatar with swag - put their own name or cap on it," said Shevat. Twitch also plans to combine Extensions with Bits, Twitch's premium currency, which you can use to "cheer" your streamer of choice by throwing a few extra bucks their way. The company's new Twitch Drops feature lets you score loot for games such as Warframe and Smite by simply watching streams of those titles. This level of interactivity is just one piece of the puzzle for Twitch.
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(Image credit: The Gear on Amazon extension lets you buy PC parts right from a Twitch page.
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"And then you install all these extensions that make it awesome and valuable, like your phone." "A channel is like an iPhone without apps, if it doesn't have extensions," said Shevat. There are already a few live examples of these types of add-ons, including a Spotify extension that lets you see what music a broadcaster is rocking or an Amazon extension that makes it easy to buy your favorite streamer's preferred PC parts right from their channel. "I think, at the end of the day, we want every game to have an official extension," Shevat said, adding that a lot of the content you see on a streamer's Twitch page - including links to social media channels and personal websites - will become more interactive over time.
But they all share the common goal of making Twitch more than just a place to seek out passive entertainment. Others, like Darwin Project's Spectator Experience, allow viewers to become active participants in the games they're watching. Some extensions consist of simple stat overlays that let you get a better look at a streamer's performance in games like Fortnite and Destiny 2. (Image credit: Overwolf's PUBG stats extension.
In fact, one of Darveau's main inspirations for Darwin Project was 2014's Twitch Plays Pokémon phenomenon, in which more than 1 million viewers collectively controlled a game of Pokémon by entering special commands in the channel's chat room. "With the current state of technology, there is no reason why video games take a turn and create an experience where your ability to discuss, seduce, charm and convince is actually the gameplay," Simon Darveau, Darwin Project creative director, said over a Skype call, noting that the game was built with streaming in mind from day one. "These are the games that we see in the future: a world where the viewers are actually active participants." - Amir Shevat, vice president of developer experience, Twitch As such, winning over the crowd is just as (if not more) important than having a quick trigger finger.
In Scavengers Studio's Hunger Games-esque survival game, viewers can vote to do things such as close off specific zones of the map, trigger a manhunt on a specific player or even order an airstrike to send contestants scrambling. And they could vote on who to kill, or where the nuke zones are."ĭarwin Project is a prime example of the potential of Twitch Extensions, a set of streamer tools that allows viewers to interact directly with the broadcasts they watch. "And what I found is that it wasn't a regular game it was the Darwin Project. "So I go into that room and see a team of Twitch employees really cheering a game," he added. "I was sitting there, doing my paperwork, and I hear behind me like, 'Whoa! Yeah! Oh my God!' - and I'm getting all of this FOMO," Shevat said. (Image credit: Amir Shevat, VP of Developer Relations at Twitch.
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