Community-controlled games

Community-controlled games, where many players steer one avatar, can create a symbiotic form of storytelling with community-written narratives. Twitch Plays Pokemon Red was completed within 16 days, according to a post on the site's blog, and drew 9 million unique viewers, with a peak of 121,000 at one time. Its subreddit, which has almost 100,000 subscribers, produced the Book of Helix, a 27-page work submitted by Audry Dijeau that wove the top-rated contributions into one text. Zach Gerlock, creator of Twitch Plays Zelda, says such games need a "no failure state" because players cannot lose progress.