Following in the footsteps of the popular TwitchPlaysPokemon, which is currently in day eight of having thousands of Twitch viewers inputting commands to beat the classic game, TwitchPlaysBattlefield4 was completed in an astonishing 12 minutes. The idea to take the community-driven control of TwitchPlaysPokemon and put it into a simpler game came to Phil Ryans when he was watching the stream one day.
“I liked what they were doing with Pokemon,” Ryans told us, “but it was just taking so damn long. So I thought I’d put it into a game that was much easier to complete.” The unemployed software developer and avid gamer went on to tell us he had a lot of ideas for games to use ranging from classics like Tetris, Asteroids and even a computerized version of Tic-Tac-Toe but they were all still to complicated. Turns out Battlefield 4 was the perfect fit for his idea and, without wasting any time, he went on to mod the game to take commands from the chatroom much like the popular Pokemon stream.
It was only a matter of seconds after he launched the initial stream that people started to pour in; excited to continue the crowd-controlled concept but on a game that would not take nearly as long. There was an initial scare that the viewers might take a wrong turn in the mostly linear campaign, but twelve minutes and tens of thousands of viewers yelling random commands at the screen later the Battlefield 4 campaign was complete.
When we asked him if he was surprised at just how quickly the campaign was complete he told us “Oh, very. I thought it would take at least an hour or two. Somehow they managed to avoid every single glitch. No falling through floors, getting helpless stuck on the walls, nothing. I’m impressed.”
Ryans hopes to continue the tradition that the TwitchPlaysPokemon creator started and expand it to other simple games with campaigns that a series of random commands could finish such as World of Warcraft, Super Mario 3D World and Dead Rising 3.
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