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A COLLABORATIVE TOOL TO ALLOW STREAMERS AND VIEWERS TO BUILD TOGETHER IN POLY
BRIDGE


A NEW KIND OF VIEWER EXPERIENCE

Viewers are no longer restricted to the chatbox, instead use an in-browser
version of the game to build along with the streamer


STREAMERS STAY IN CONTROL

Poly Bridge lets the streamer play at their own pace and control how the
interaction works, allowing for a tailored and entertaining viewer experience


A GREAT MIND CHALLENGE

A fun and challenging game that lends itself perfectly to collaboration, with
viewers and streamer feedbacking on each other’s suggestions and bridge designs


WANT TO JOIN THE FUN?


CONNECT WITH TWITCH TO GET STARTED!

HOW IT WORKS

“STREAMERS AND VIEWERS WORK TOGETHER TO BUILD THE BEST DAMN BRIDGE YOU’VE EVER
SEEN!”

CAPTAIN SHEEP

VIEWERS

Once you’ve connected to Twitch through this website, find an active integrated
stream and load it up. When the streamer indicates they’re accepting
suggestions, you can download their bridge design and alter it, or start from
scratch, by using the in­-browser version of the game, and submit your own
bridge to the streamer as a suggestion.

STREAMER

Activate the integration in­-game by authenticating with your Twitch account and
starting an integration session. As you play along you can open viewer
suggestions, which will allow everyone in the audience to alter your bridge
design, or build one from scratch, and send it back as a suggestion. You'll have
a list of viewer suggestions and can control many aspects of the integration.
Learn more

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POLY BRIDGE TWITCH INTEGRATION


WHAT IS IT?

Unique Twitch integration that allows viewers to suggest changes and
improvements to broadcasters’ bridge designs in real time.


FOR STREAMERS

To enable the Twitch integration in-game go to Settings/Other and click the
Twitch button. You will need to authenticate with Twitch the first time you
enable the integration, once authenticated press the ‘Start Session’ button and
wait for the confirmation. Note: It can take up to 60 seconds for Twitch to
correctly inform Poly Bridge of a current active stream, so please allow enough
time between starting the broadcast and attempting to start a session.

With a session active just load up a level and start building, works with
Campaign, Workshop and Sandbox! You decide when the audience is allowed to
submit suggestions, how frequently, and whether to restrict submissions to your
subscribers only.

You will want to direct your audience to twitch.drycactus.com to start the
collaborative building process, and a chatbot will also be regularly
broadcasting the specific url for your session in the chat to encourage viewer
engagement.


INTERACTING WITH YOUR AUDIENCE

The first tab, Viewer Suggestions, is where you can see a list of suggestions
submitted by your audience.

Viewers can only submit suggestions when you explicitly enable the ‘Allow
Suggestions’ checkbox, which by default is off. By doing so you can stay in
control of when you want your audience to engage and help you build, or when you
prefer to go solo and have the audience take the backseat.

Keep in mind that viewer latency on Twitch floats on average between 10-15
seconds, so try to account for that when loading suggestions and interacting
with your audience in general.

We’re accepting suggestions, and here’s a list of the most recent viewer
suggestions
Previewing a Viewer Suggestion

As you receive suggestions from your viewers they are added to a queue, with the
most recent at the top. Click on a suggestion to load a preview and decide what
to do with it:

 * Load it
 * Don’t load but keep the suggestion
 * Don’t load and discard the suggestion
 * Mute the player and discard the suggestion, any further suggestions are
   automatically discarded

With the preview open you can also use the Next and Previous buttons to quickly
browse your list of suggestions.




CONTROLLING THE INTEGRATION

Aspects of the integration can be controlled from the Settings tab, such as:

 * Chatbot broadcasting and its frequency
 * Subscriber-only mode (for Twitch Partners)
 * Viewer Suggestion Cooldown Period
 * Managing the list of banned players




HISTORY

In the History tab you will find a number of auto-saves, which happen when
loading a viewer suggestion. This allows you to safely load a viewer’s
suggestion and then return to your previous design if you wish to do so, without
losing any progress. This is also useful because it allows you to load a viewer
suggestion, copy a section of it, return to your previous design and paste the
new bridge section, effectively allowing you to mix’n’match from different
viewer suggestions and add to your existing design.


VIEWERS

To give you an idea of how viewers interact with you, here’s a screenshot of the
minified in-browser version of Poly Bridge they use to build.

In this view, the stream and chat are embedded into the webpage, when you open
suggestions a viewer can then hit the ‘Start Playing’ button which opens the
build area in a modal view on top of the stream. Viewers have access to the same
tools as you do, except they cannot run any simulations. Once they’re happy with
what they’ve built they can click the ‘Submit Suggestion’ button which will send
you the savefile.




BETA!

This is still in beta so please give us any feedback/ideas/suggestions you have
so we can improve the experience for everyone!