{"id":2471,"date":"2014-02-24T09:39:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T23:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=2471"},"modified":"2014-02-24T10:08:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T00:08:34","slug":"the-strange-tale-of-twitch-plays-pokemon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/the-strange-tale-of-twitch-plays-pokemon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strange Tale of \u201cTwitch Plays Pok\u00e9mon\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Cunningham of Ars Technica:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Most gamers in my Twitter orbit have been spending their time with the Titanfall beta since invitations began going out late last week, but I\u2019ve become entranced by a different kind of online multiplayer game. I\u2019m talking, of course, about \u201cTwitch Plays Pok\u00e9mon,\u201d and I haven\u2019t seen anything like it in\u00a0a decade-and-a-half of Pok\u00e9mon playing.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I too have been glued to this stream for the last week. Launched by an anonymous Australian programmer, the &#8216;game&#8217; has blossomed into a fascinating viral phenomenon, with an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/twitchplayspokemon\/\">incredibly active community subreddit<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/twitchplayspokemon\/comments\/1yhopy\/a_most_sacred_tablet_fan_art\/\">illustrated folklore<\/a>, raids to manipulate the game by other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/twitchplayspokemon\/comments\/1yp1ll\/for_those_unaware_destiny_is_raiding_tpp_we_need\/\">popular streamers<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/guardianlv.com\/2014\/02\/twitch-plays-pokemon-and-the-power-of-democracy\/\">lengthy analysis<\/a> on the &#8216;democracy vs. anarchy&#8217; mechanic in the game.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t tuned into <a href=\"http:\/\/twitch.tv\/twitchplayspokemon\">Twitch Plays Pokemon<\/a> yet, you really owe it to yourself to take a look. It&#8217;s a gaming experience unlike any other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew Cunningham of Ars Technica: Most gamers in my Twitter orbit have been spending their time with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[193,486,685],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}