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Designing For One toOne Million:The Choice Chamber Postmortem
Michael MolinariDeveloper @ Studio Bean @onemrbean
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Choice Chamber●a real-time, crowdsourced, procedurally generated game where your fate is in everyone else’s hands
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Initial Idea●Game that connects streamer+viewers
● Chat controls variables that help generate the game
● Chat input given via real-time polls
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Prototype●Empty Game Canvas●Polls last 1 min
● Simultaneous●Changes via chests
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Doing Things The Hard Way●Use OCR to read the chat
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TwitchPlaysPokemon●Broke my heart </3●Lost sleep●Canceled the game●Entered FlappyJam●Sucked it up and got back to work
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Kickstarting a Weird Idea●Live 48hr broadcast at campaign launch●Twitch updates UI, breaking OCR chat●Twitch funds ½ of remaining goal
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Then I visited Asia for a month & moved across the country
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Monthly Beta Builds●Regular testing with streamers●Opportunity to test new ideas
● (and throw most of them out)
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Some Stuff That Was Cool●Kickstarter Powers
● Based on pledge level● Usable on any channel
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Some Stuff That Was Cool●Sub Gizmos
● individual chat-controlled bots for channel subscribers
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Some Stuff That Was Cool
Built-in Chatbot Challenge Rooms Room Captain
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Some Stuff That Was Cool●Alpha (“Final” Boss)
● Viewers type unique words starting with the displayed letter
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Then We Launched!July 2015!●53rd most-watched●9th most-chatted (?)
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Post-Launch Goodies
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Learnings●Doing something new is Hard●Doing something new well is harder●Throw out everything●Ride coattails, then sprout your own●This stuff is the future
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The Rest of The Crowdsourced Games Landscape
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Other Crowdsourced Games●Kasparov vs The World
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Other Crowdsourced Games●“Absolute Terror” by Tyler Glaiel
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Other Crowdsourced Games●MMO Singleplayer
Twitch Plays Pokemon Twitch Plays Dark Souls Twitch Plays Punch Club
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Other Crowdsourced Games●Audience Participation
Quiplash Salty Bet Death Roulette
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Other Crowdsourced Games●Viewer interactivity added in
Party Hard Action Henk Rise of the Tomb Raider
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Other Crowdsourced Games●Stuff by RobotLovesKitty & Proletariat
Legend of Dungeon: Masters
Upsilon Circuit Streamline
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Other Crowdsourced Games●… CityStream!
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Many Thanks To:Chelsea HoweJukio KallioKent MudleMentalvaryBrooke Van DusenAbout half of this room <3