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Games suitable for a livestreaming relay event? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I am part of an event called "nethackathon" where multiple streamers hand over the same character/savegame to the next person in the schedule, like a relay race. What other games do you think would be good for a similar kind of event?

Nethack is ideal for a few different reasons:

  • it has a clearly defined objective (win the game)
  • permadeath means there are real stakes, we care if each character lives or dies
  • a winning run usually takes about 10-20 hours, short enough to be done in the weekend of the event, but also long enough that it can't be completed by a single person and requires multiple streamers in 2 hour "shifts"
  • transferable savegames (we play on a common server)
  • the game itself is interesting and deep

What other games do you think would work well in this format and why?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The Dwarf Fortress community has been doing this exact thing for years now. IIRC, Boatmurdered was also one of these where the save was being passed between multiple folks.