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Twitch Plays Pokemon is a social experiment, challenging a mob of anonymous internet users to collaborate, and possibly complete a game of Pokemon Red.
In less than a week, the anarchic mob made unbelievable progress through the game and generated a subculture that went viral around the internet.
- A Gameboy Emulator streams the screen and any recent commands to Twitch.tv for players to watch.
- The players then call out commands through a chat window, causing an script to control the game accordingly.
- The players react to mishaps by countering other players, announcing a goal, or otherwise attempting to create order out of chaos.
- Some players have weaved a narrative to explain the madness, and even a "semi-satirical" religion called "The Glory of the Helix Fossil".
Later updates to the script introduced:
- A Democracy mode, requiring users to vote on the next button to press.
- A tug-of-war system, allowing users to vote for the script to run a free-for-all Anarchy mode, or return to the organized Democracy mode.
Progress is mindnumbingly slow, and mishaps many. But over time, the crowd manages to train their pokemon, defeat several gym leaders, and even spin a satirical narrative and mythology that explains mishaps or miracles.
We invite and encourage the community to add to (and clean up) this wiki.
Editors will need:
- A Github Account - After login, an edit button will appear above this wiki.
- Markdown Syntax - The same syntax famously used on Reddit and Tumblr.
- Images uploaded to Imgur - Reduces the strain on the wiki.
This is an initiative created by the Bibliotheca Anonoma, designed to document the progress, subculture, and the viral madness of this amazing internet phenomenon.
The wiki utilizes the Github Gollum Wiki engine, a Git-based wiki engine used for easy archival and revision tracking.
All Twitch.tv streams and related material will be permanently saved by the Internet Archive as part of the Preserving Virtual Worlds collection.
