Virtual companion · Twitch · OBS

A virtual companion for your Twitch stream, shown in OBS

A virtual companion for Twitch is an animated creature shown on a stream that reacts to what happens in chat. LiveGotchi is a pixel virtual companion: it lives on the OBS overlay, feeds on messages, follows, subscriptions and raids, and evolves from one stream to the next.

• It hatches from an egg. Every egg is drawn by a creator and chosen in the Incubator.
• It lives during your streams. Its four stats — health, strength, precision and mana — rise with chat activity and wear down over time.
• It evolves. When the conditions of its stage are met, it moves on to the next one, sometimes along one branch rather than another.
• It sleeps off stream, and can die during a stream: of old age, or if its health stays at zero for too long.
• It fights in the arena, where it never dies.

1. 01

   Create your account

   Sign-up is free. LiveGotchi is in closed beta: access opens in waves.

2. 02

   Hatch an egg

   Choose an egg in the Incubator, then hatch it in the Nursery.

3. 03

   Place the overlay in OBS

   The LiveGotchi OBS script adds the overlay's browser source at the right size. Optional widgets also show its gauges, what it is waiting for to evolve and its identity.

   Download the OBS script — free

4. 04

   Link Twitch

   It is optional. With a six-letter code, it also hears follows, subscriptions, bits, raids and the hype train.

• OBS, with a browser source that the LiveGotchi OBS script sets up for you.
• obs-websocket, optional: it lets the companion walk on your sources instead of a bare floor.
• A linked Twitch account, optional, so it hears follows, subscriptions and raids in addition to messages.

Go further: create your own creatures · see the eggs in the Incubator · discover LiveGotchi