Bring your Twitch chat back every stream with an OBS creature

A standing date, not just an animation

An overlay alert plays the same way for every follow. It dresses up the stream, but it changes nothing for tomorrow: a viewer who misses it has missed nothing.

A creature that keeps track of what the chat did works differently. Every stream becomes an episode: people come to see whether it has evolved, come back so it does not fade away, and stay for the next battle. That is the loop LiveGotchi puts on your overlay, as a virtual companion for Twitch (page in French).

What the chat does to the creature

• With nothing linked, chat messages already feed it.
• Once Twitch is linked with a six-letter code, it also hears follows, subscriptions, bits, raids and hype trains. No password ever goes through LiveGotchi.
• Every event raises one of its four states: health, strength, precision and mana. The creator of the egg decided how events are split between those states.
• States wear down with airtime. When one drops, a bubble above the creature says so: the audience understands without reading a gauge, and knows what to do.

Time only counts while you are live

Off air, the creature sleeps. It does not age, and time off stream does not count towards its evolutions: taking a few days off costs nothing.

On air, it is truly alive. It can die of old age, or if its health stays at zero for too long. A community that looks after it sees it grow; an absent one watches it fade, live, in front of everyone. That is what gives weight to every stream.

Evolutions your audience earns

Each stage of a creature's life has conditions, set by the creator of the egg and measured during airtime:

• time spent in the stage;
• states at a given level, or an average of all four;
• a maximum number of care faults;
• what the stream produced: messages, distinct chatters, follows, subscriptions, raids, hype train levels, clips…

When several branches open, the creature takes the first one whose condition is met. Two communities raising the same egg do not necessarily get the same creature: their streams made the call.

The Creation method, the reference creators design eggs with, asks them to aim for at least ten hours of airtime per stage. An evolution is pursued over weeks, together with the chat, not in a single evening.

Show the chat what lies ahead

Widgets sit in the overlay scene, next to the creature:

• what it needs to evolve;
• what it is asking for;
• its four states;
• its identity;
• what the stream has produced.

The evolution widget shows what is left to achieve, never what the next stage looks like. Even in the Incubator, an egg's page shows the tree and its conditions, not the appearance of its evolutions: discovering them live is the reward.

Moments worth sharing

Hatching, every evolution and arena battles play out on air. They are moments the chat lives with you, and they make good clips.

Other pieces extend the effect: decorations drawn by creators, some of which react when the chat gets excited, and the option to show several creatures from your Nursery in the same OBS source.

Add LiveGotchi to your stream

1. Create your account. Sign-up is free; the beta is closed and access opens in waves.
2. Pick an egg in the Incubator, then hatch it in the Nursery.
3. Add the overlay to OBS: the LiveGotchi OBS script sets up the browser source at the right size. obs-websocket, optional, lets the creature walk on your sources.
4. Link Twitch if you want follows, subscriptions and raids to count too.

Frequently asked questions