ID@Xbox: Mike Mika is making… #IDARB
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The pitch: “#IDARB is an eight-player, crowd-designed future sports game. It uses Twitter and Twitch to incorporate audience participation from anywhere in the world.”
Our take: Everything about this game revolves around the people watching it. The design document emerged out of Twitter suggestions, the character list is designed and submitted by players, and with the addition of unique game codes, spectators can change the conditions of a game in progress by tweeting “hash bombs”, which can do anything from turn off the lights to spawn monsters. With a dev team of thousands, you’re bound to end up with something new.