Twitch has announced a new hub dedicated to offering more discoverability to Twitch Plays broadcasts.

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Twitch Plays will allow developers to introduce games and viewers to find games within the crowdsourced video game playthrough genre more easily.You might recall back in February 2014, an anonymous Australian programmer created a script that turned Twitch’s chat box into a controller during a broadcast for Pokemon Red , allowing viewers to type in commands that directly affect the outcome of the game. Days after Twitch Plays Pokemon beat Pokemon Red Since that time, other resourceful Twitch community members have gone on to play games like Dark Souls and a carnival claw game.“The cascading creation of ideas inspired by TwitchPlaysPokemon has been the most rewarding part of having created the experience,” TwitchPlaysPokemon, who still wishes to remain anonymous, said in a statement through Twitch. “Since the addition of a ‘TwitchPlays’ category will greatly improve their discoverability, I hope this further encourages people to make their own streams inspired by my channel.”In addition to existing channels, Twitch Plays Dark Souls, currently playing through Demon's Souls, and TwitchPlaysClawMachine, viewers can currently watch Twitch Plays Robot, featuring real-life robots fighting each other, TwitchPlaysPunchClub, tinyBuild’s game about a boxer’s journey, and of course, TwitchPlaysPokemon, which plans to start playing a “heavily modified” version of Pokemon Crystal on February 14.Lastly, Twitch announced four new games coming to Twitch Plays. City Stream, in which the community builds and defends a city, TwitchPlaysZombidle, featuring custom characters in control of evil characters making life tough on good guys, Kid Mech, a live-action robot arena combat game, and TwitchVersusZombies, a game in which players must cooperate with each other to defeat zombies.Recently, Twitch celebrated its launch of Twitch Creative by streaming a marathon of The Joy of Painting, featuring Bob Ross . The marathon was a hit as 5.6 million viewers tuned in and, as a result, Twitch is rebroadcasting episodes of The Joy of Painting every Monday night.

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