The team at Twitch are hosting their annual TwitchCon event in Long Beach this weekend, and to generate hype they cut a deal with Hitbox Team (Dustforce, Spire) to build a multiplayer game that’s played entirely within the Twitch client.
In this case, Twitch and Hitbox seem focused on keeping viewers engaged by giving them a small multiplayer game to play as various talks and panels are broadcast live from TwitchCon throughout the weekend.
Matches are designed to last about 5 minutes, on average, and the game is currently only playable by viewers using the Twitch desktop app.
The game, Galactic Disagreements (aka GalDis), assigns players to two teams at random and then asks them to overpower the opposing team by acquiring resources and launching ships.