But though it started simple and small, Twitch Plays Pokemon has grown into a Internet phenomenon: Throughout the last two and a half weeks, the stream has garnered more than 35 million views with active viewer amounts ranging from 50,000 to peaks of nearly 120,000. Through the use of an IRC chat bot set up by the channel creator, tens of thousands of players have been typing in button commands like up, down, a, and b into the Twitch stream's comment box in an effort to control the main character on an emulated version of the game. One of many impressive pieces of fan art to come out of Twitch Plays Pokemon, Redditor whoaconstrictor's "A Most Sacred Tablet" depicts the evolution of the stream's religious narrative in hieroglyphic fashion. It turns out that the 1998 classic Pokemon Red for the original Game Boy was the perfect title to test such an effort. The original intent was to see whether a group could effectively play a single-player video game by crowdsourcing the button commands. Having started on February 12, the massively multiplayer Pokemon game began as a "proof of concept," says the anonymous Australian programmer who devised the genius social experiment and brought it to life on the game-streaming site. Thanks to what ended up being a rather fortuitous set of circumstances involving the game's final lineup of Pokemon, the team was well-suited to the challenge and only needed to grind - or increase one's levels and thus strength through repetitious enemy battling - into the 17th day of the stream before overcoming the challenge. Though many had postulated that it might potentially take weeks to overcome the final hurdle, it in fact took only less than two dozen attempts in a single day. PT Saturday - viewership on the stream doubled to around 100,000 and hovered there, only dipping down when especially ill-fated failures seemed to dampen the spirit.
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Throughout the course of the first series of attempts at defeating the Elite Four - which began shortly before 11 a.m. It's surely a sign that if the Internet spends enough time at something, it can achieve the seemingly impossible. But some combination of the main character's laughable failure to do anything, the fact that the entire audience is controlling the game together, and the unthinkable amount of progress they've made in the game so far has made Twitch Plays Pokémon a real event for people who like video games, and as a result it's gotten super-popular.In a stunning display of sheer perseverance and impressive strategizing, the players participating in the endlessly strange and wondrous Twitch Plays Pokemon have, after more than 390 hours, reached the end of the game's main plot and bested the final frontier, the Elite Four. Of course, coordinating thousands of people is impossible, so as a result the game has seriously struggled- the main character even struggles to walk in a straight line. This created a game being played by thousands of people at the same time. Anyone watching can tell the game to press any button at any time, and the game will do it. Normally livestreams have one person controlling the game and everyone else simply watching them, but the creator of this livestream in particular set the game up so that anyone who comments on the stream can control the game. There's a livestreaming channel that's playing the fourth series of Pokémon games, after completing the first three.
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