Last January I genuinely thought it would take Twitch at least 8 days to beat Punch Club. They did so in 36 hours. Fair enough. Time for a new challenge.

What if the challenge wasn’t against AI? What if they were playing against us, live, in a defense style game? We’d give them all the tools to win – forming strategies, choosing targets, and of course dressing up their units in silly costumes – and knock the price down with every win they take. If they beat us, we release One Troll Army for free.

Twitch vs Alienware Livestream from PAX East — example of what it’s like to play against the chat.
Announcing Twitch vs One Troll Army. If Twitch beats us, the game will be free.

Unlike Twitch Plays Punch Club — where users played against the game — here they are going up directly against us, live. Twitch Chat will control individual units in Twitch vs One Troll Army. A Stream First game, designed to be played with the audience. We will play against them. Users can assign costumes, and see their usernames in-game. They directly control actions of units, attack strategies, targets, and more

Twitch vs One Troll Army – Event details:

• We will give the chat 9 hours to beat us.
• Tomorrow, Thursday May 19th.
• http://twitch.tv/tinyBuild
• 9am CEST – 6pm CEST
• Every time the chat wins a wave, One Troll Army’s price drops
• It can go down to $0, in which case we release it for free (the game will have DLC in the form of troll costumes regardless of if it’s free or not)

About One Troll Army

• A tower defense-style game that puts you in the shoes of a giant troll protecting a fort. Gather resources, upgrade your fort, recruit workers, and fight off waves of enemies. Upgrading and micro-managing your troll unit is key.
• Steam page
• Example of playing against the twitch chat (PAX East livestream)
• Releasing May 20th on Steam