Twitch Plays Pokémon has a lot to answer for. What began with a goofy experiment to see if the hivemind could actually play an old game has blossomed into an entire genre of gameplay: Playing Pokémon in weird ways, the latest of which is Pokémon inside of a Twitter avatar. If things keep going this way, we'll be playing Pokémon on a network of fungi by 2030.
Constantin Liétard, the Montreal-based creator of Pokémon Red-inside-a-Twitter-avatar, has just announced that his latest project, Pokémon Crystal-inside-a-Twitter-avatar, is now ready to play. At the time of writing, the player character is just about to pick their first starter.
You can join in with the game by commenting on the announcement tweet, which already has hundreds of replies:
Pokémon Red took Twitter only 40 days to beat, with over 90,000 comments instructing the player character what to do. Here's hoping Pokémon Crystal can set a new record!
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Serious question: Is Twitter popular in Britain? It starts with the word "twit" so I always wondered if Brits would scoff at the darned thing.
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Can always tell a Kate Gray article 😂
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I'd try this out if it didn't involve making a Twitter account. I don't need that negativity in my life.
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@BloodNinja It's kind of popular, in my experience we're more in to Facebook.
@Tyranexx This, honestly. I've never understood the appeal of Twitter. It seems to want to distill every interaction between volatile humans to a very boiling core, the whole format is designed to ignore context and bring up contention. Remove Twitter and it's clones and the world improves monumentally, is my theory.
So... we're encouraging software piracy so long as it's emulated within social media avatars?
@BloodNinja : I think most sensible people would scoff at the septic tank that is Twitter.
How about playing Pokemon Crystal on an Analogue Pocket that I must wait for 2 more long years. Couldn't get it on time...
@Matty1988 Thank you
@Silly_G I should hope so!
The only logical next step is to have twitch control a Twitter post which controls the comment on that person’s avatar. Then it would be brought full circle!
"I am not gay" says the guy who chose the screen name @GayusGayer.
@Matty1988 I considered joining Twitter at one point until I learned about the text limit, then noped out. That was years ago before it became the boiling waste pit it is today. While I like communicating with text (because proofreading), you lose social cues, voice inflections, and nonverbal communication. Hence a lot of misunderstandings, lost meanings, and pointless arguments when it comes to serious material...or even satire.
@Silly_G It's not like you can really play the game how YOU want to anyways, and considering it runs 24 hours a day you're not really going to see everything.
So it's not a very effective form of "piracy."
@Tyranexx Lol exactly, I deleted my Twitter but if I still had it this would be a really neat novelty. The fun parts of the platform aren’t worth dealing with all the not-so-fun parts.
@MH4 Your last sentence is honestly how I feel about most social media in general. Plus, I realized how much time I used to put into the likes of Facebook when I could be doing more productive or more interesting things.
@PokemonDMG I wish I had gold silver and crystal to play on the pocket…. I currently only have red blue and yellow, Yellow being my childhood copy with the special edition yellow and blue Pokémon game boy
@Desrever lol. Well maybe a little bit eh? 😏
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