{"id":122619,"date":"2020-12-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/12\/pokemon_fans_raspberry_pi_project_allows_twitch_to_play_pokemon_sword"},"modified":"2020-12-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T00:00:00","slug":"pokemon-fans-raspberry-pi-project-allows-twitch-to-play-pokemon-sword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/29\/pokemon-fans-raspberry-pi-project-allows-twitch-to-play-pokemon-sword\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Fans&#8217; Raspberry Pi Project Allows Twitch To Play Pok\u00e9mon Sword"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9d5d9d24d8434\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9d5d9d24d8434\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9d5d9d24d8434\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<p>People keep doing amazing things with technology. Last week, it was a chap playing <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/among_us\">Among Us<\/a><\/strong> on the Wii <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/12\/random_among_us_on_wii_sounds_kinda_sus\">(sort of)<\/a>; this week it&#8217;s Twitch Plays <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_sword_and_shield\"><strong>Pok\u00e9mon Sword<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Reddit user DmitrievStan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/raspberry_pi\/comments\/klv3bv\/we_used_a_raspberry_pi_4_and_adafruit_trinket_m0\/\">posted a video of his complicated setup<\/a> that allows him to stream his Nintendo Switch to Twitch, and lets viewers control the game remotely for 60 seconds at a time. The game is streaming right now on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surrogate.tv\/game\/pokesword\">Surrogate Twitch channel<\/a> as the first of their planned &#8220;We Play&#8221; series.<\/p>\n<p>It does sound slightly less chaotic than the original <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2014\/02\/twitchplayspokemon_takes_internet_by_storm\">TwitchPlaysPok\u00e9mon<\/a>, but luckily, the general tone hasn&#8217;t changed &#8211; at the time of writing, the Pok\u00e9mon team includes &#8220;Bunny&#8221;, a Raboot, a Vulpix named &#8220;fire&#8221;, and a Gossifleur named&#8230; &#8220;asshola&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to give the game a go (and hopefully provide some better names) then you can just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surrogate.tv\/game\/pokesword\">drop into the Twitch chat<\/a> and queue up for your 60 seconds in the spotlight. The Twitch page notes that the top ten players at the end of the game will win a prize, presumably meaning the ten players with the most time logged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People keep doing amazing things with technology. Last week, it was a chap playing Among Us on the Wii (sort of); this week it&#8217;s Twitch Plays Pok\u00e9mon Sword. Reddit user DmitrievStan posted a video of his complicated setup that allows him to stream his Nintendo Switch to Twitch, and lets viewers control the game remotely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}