People call them by different names: “story games”, “adventure games”, “MUD”, “roleplay”, and (my favorite) “interactive fiction”. Since my addiction to Zork I have loved them. They are also an amazing way to get people to be creative writers. So it’s not lost on me that by creating an interactive fiction Twitch bot you can provide an entire collaborative narrative that the group plays together. You’d have to work out some way to arrive at consensus, so that, say, you have 100 people in the room, 51 of them would have to agree to do a specific thing. You could isolate the number of people though some sort of reputation or other score to limit the number of players currently. But the bot could manage all that. In fact, I’m hearing from @HYNZZY on Twitch that there is already a thing called Endless War that works in Discord. Using Discord would allow the use of images in the chat. But Twitch has the unique ability to change the video being displayed on the screen. So an interactive fiction game on Twitch could be tied directly to a series of videos, art or whatever. When I was in college a Spanish professor won an award for Monte Video, a lazer-disk game filmed in Mexico of interactions. That entire thing could be done today over Twitch and upgrade infinitely..
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