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JavaScript

Thom Benjamin
Thom Benjamin
10,494 Points
Posted by Thom Benjamin
Thom Benjamin
10,494 Points

Making Twitch Plays with JavaScript

I would like to make an app with JavaScript (and probably Node.js), that takes messages from the Twitch chat as strings (up, left, right, down, a and b), and makes those messages trigger the appropriate button on my MacBook. This way the chat has to be able to play on a GameBoy Emulator on my MacBook, like in the popular streams of Twitch Plays Pokemon.

I found one resource to do this with another app called Twilio: https://www.twilio.com/blog/2015/12/building-your-own-twitch-plays-pokemon-with-javascript-twilio-ip-messaging-and-socket-io.html And a video series where they teach it using Python: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCagGV9Jl88&t=439s

But not a single resource for using JavaScript to access the Twitch API and play videogames with a chat.

My questions:

  • is it possible?
  • what steps would you take?
  • do you have any useful resources?

Thanks!