{"id":58476,"date":"2018-10-29T20:39:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T20:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/329586"},"modified":"2018-10-29T20:39:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T20:39:00","slug":"twitch-teams-up-with-harmonix-to-develop-a-streaming-karaoke-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/10\/29\/twitch-teams-up-with-harmonix-to-develop-a-streaming-karaoke-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitch teams up with Harmonix to develop a streaming karaoke game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitch is teaming up with <em>Rock Band<\/em> developer Harmonix\u00a0to bring <em>Twitch Sings<\/em>, a streaming karaoke game, to the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Announced during TwitchCon last week, CEO and co-founder of Twitch Emmett Shear described <em>Twitch Sings<\/em> as\u00a0a \u201cnew category of game that\u2019s made to be streamed,&#8221;\u00a0explaining how\u00a0the audience is integral to\u00a0the experience.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership makes a lot of sense, considering how Harmonix has experience in developing music-oriented games and karaoke is a performative\u00a0activity best enjoyed with an audience.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However the announcement brings forth a few questions: How are the devs over at Harmonix\u00a0monetizing <em>Twitch Sings<\/em>, if at all? Did Twitch invest in Harmonix or help fund the game?<\/p>\n<p>More specifically\u00a0are there any new, interesting dev features of Twitch that were specifically implemented for <em>Twitch Sings<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Gamasutra has reached out to Twitch in hopes of\u00a0answering these questions, and will update when a response is received.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The game is currently in closed beta, but Twitch is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/link.twitch.tv\/sings\">accepting signups on its website<\/a>\u00a0for streamers who are interested in taking part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitch is teaming up with Rock Band developer Harmonix\u00a0to bring Twitch Sings, a streaming karaoke game, to the platform. Announced during TwitchCon last week, CEO and co-founder of Twitch Emmett Shear described Twitch Sings as\u00a0a \u201cnew category of game that\u2019s made to be streamed,&#8221;\u00a0explaining how\u00a0the audience is integral to\u00a0the experience. The partnership makes a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58476","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=58476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}