Schlagwort: developer
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The Million Dollar Developer Question: How Do I Get Funding?
Reading Time: 3 minutesEarlier this year, we shared key findings from our annual developer survey, covering a range of topics from the biggest changes the industry’s seen over the last year to the segments most primed for growth. Developers also shared their personal challenges creating and scaling new VR content, and while each story was unique, the single issue…
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HTC VIVE’s GDC Sessions To Go Live
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Game Developers Conference (GDC) is one of our favorite moments of the year. Connecting with the developer community, sharing our technical insights and learning what is next for the industry is always a highlight for our team. We were disappointed when we realized GDC had to be canceled this year, yet…
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Tales from the Twitch Extensions Commerce Pilot: Three companies building amazing experiences
Reading Time: 3 minutesLast year, Twitch invited a handful of merchandise vendors and charity donation platforms to build Twitch Extensions, powered mainly by Amazon Pay checkout, as part of a Commerce in Extension pilot program. These experiences entitled Twitch streamers to sell shirts and raise funds for charity. The pilot program developers raised almost $1M…
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You’re a What? The Life of a Developer Relations Intern
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis summer, I had the pleasure of interning on the Developer Relations (DevRel) team at Twitch in San Francisco. Being a DevRel intern is a unique experience, as many companies don’t offer internships (or even junior roles for that matter) in this space. I’m humbled that I received this opportunity at Twitch…
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Just add Time Travel: Building your Games for Both Streamers and Viewers
Reading Time: 3 minutesTwitch Extensions empower new interactions and collaborations between streamers and viewers. Our friends at Amazon Games explored this with their experimental top-down shooter The Collaborative. The Collaborative is both a game and a Twitch Extension. While the streamers are playing the game, the viewers are using the Twitch Extension. While the streamers…
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Just add Time Travel: Building your Games for Both Streamers and Viewers
Reading Time: 3 minutesTwitch Extensions empower new interactions and collaborations between streamers and viewers. Our friends at Amazon Games explored this with their experimental top-down shooter The Collaborative. The Collaborative is both a game and a Twitch Extension. While the streamers are playing the game, the viewers are using the Twitch Extension. While the streamers…
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Fireworks! A Sample Extension Using Bits
Reading Time: 5 minutesIt’s always a good time for fireworks! And fireworks are even better when they’re digital and in a Twitch Extension. Recently we published a new sample Extension on the GitHub, which allows viewers to exchange Bits for an immaculate fireworks display in a video overlay. It leverages several of our Bits-in-Extension APIs,…
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Introducing a Community Resource Page for Twitch Developers
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Twitch Developer community has created some incredible, open source projects that help developers get started on Twitch. These resources — as well as our own coding projects — are scattered across different sites like GitHub, Glitch, and the documentation. In order to centralize these resources, and showcase the code samples, tutorials,…
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Announcing Twitch Developer Jam: 2019!
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLevel up the Twitch community with game-matched Extensions We’re so excited to announce Twitch Developer Jam: 2019! This Extension Jam aims to encourage developers to create awesome “game-matched Twitch Extensions” that bring more game content, better functionality, and tailored interactivity to some of our most popular games, like Fortnite, World of…
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Announcing Twitch Developer Jam: 2019!
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLevel up the Twitch community with game-matched Extensions We’re so excited to announce Twitch Developer Jam: 2019! This Extension Jam aims to encourage developers to create awesome “game-matched Twitch Extensions” that bring more game content, better functionality, and tailored interactivity to some of our most popular games, like Fortnite, World of…
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Building a Live Stream Feed for Twitch Extensions
Reading Time: 6 minutesNotify your Discord and website when streamers go live with your Extension! This is a guest post by Matt Condon (Thanks, Matt! 👋), one half of the two-person team at dot that builds the Stickers Extension. The Stickers Extension turns any stream into a canvas for viewers where viewers receive rare digital…
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Summer 2019 Twitch API Updates
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe’ve added a number of exciting and often-requested features to the Twitch API in the past three months. There’s something for everyone — ease of some developer pain points, previously unavailable Twitch functionality, and a new mechanism to ingest subscription data. Bits Transaction API Imagine you built a new Extension — it’s fun, entertaining, and it…
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10 Tips for Building Twitch Extensions
Reading Time: 8 minutesA little introduction Twitch Extensions create new ways to bring Twitch streamers and viewers together, to create amazing content, and to connect games to a live broadcast. But like any new technology, it can feel overwhelming to start using it. I’m Breci, a member of the Twitch Developer community, I currently work…
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Updating Component Extensions: Twitch Client Beta
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe recently announced an upcoming design update to component Extensions that will change the way streamers and viewers activate and interact with them. Developers have to make UI changes to their component Extensions by July 31 to capture the benefits in adoption and engagement the new model will provide. Introducing the Extensions…
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Your Developer Experience at TwitchCon 2019!
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOver the past two years, we’ve hosted a dedicated Developer Day the day before TwitchCon. We’re pleased to announce that the developer experience is now fully integrated into TwitchCon San Diego — Friday through Sunday — with a dedicated learning path and fun experiences specific to developers. Developers can learn how to build deeper integrations…
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Nine must-have Twitch Extension features
Reading Time: 5 minutesIf you’re building an Extension, these features can encourage streamers to adopt your Extension Twitch Extensions capture the power of the streamer and viewer relationship with a wide range of interactions never before possible on Twitch. In the two years since launch, we’ve seen a set of best-in-class features emerge for driving…
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Charity Extensions: making the world a better place one stream at a time
Reading Time: 3 minutesHelp Cure Cancer, End Hunger, Raise Awareness with Charity in Extensions Twitch is proud to recognize three very special Extensions supporting charitable causes on your favorite broadcasters’ streams throughout 2018 and 2019. Tiltify Donations, DonorDrive’s AFSP Charity Fundraising, and Gamers Beat Cancer by GameChanger unlock the power of Twitch community to drive…
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New Era: How to launch a game with a Twitch Extension
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Borderlands 3 ECHOcast Extension is driving viewer engagement & building pre-sale buzz months before launch It’s getting harder and harder to break through the noise and build quality buzz in the months leading up to a games’ launch. Gone are the days when a trailer, high-res screenshot, or a basic gameplay reveal…
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Twitch Developer Tour Roundup
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat an incredible start to our 2019 Twitch Developer Tour! We traveled to four countries where we met tons of awesome developers and members of the TwitchDev community. We’d like to thank everyone that came out to join us in Tel Aviv, Berlin, Paris, and London! We’d also like to thank all…
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Creating Monetization Opportunities for Developers and Streamers
Reading Time: 5 minutesExpanding on our goal to help streamers and developers generate revenue on Twitch, today we’re announcing new features that will enable developers to build new monetized Extension experiences. The first two features — Subscription Status in Extensions and Subscription Purchase Trigger — will help developers unlock new ways for streamers to reward viewers who purchase a…
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Twitch for Game Developers
Reading Time: 15 minutesHow to integrate Twitch into any part of the game development lifecycle In 2017, an average of 21 games were released per day on Steam and last year, the global games industry gross revenue was approximately $138 billion. It’s a crowded market. And as a game developer, you’re not only competing with…
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Twitch Developer Tour + gamesweekberlin = better together!
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe are excited to partner with gamesweekberlin 8 April through 14 April, 2019! Our Twitch Developer Tour Berlin is now part of their seven days of events dedicated to gaming, business, and development. In addition to the Twitch Developer Tour on Friday, 12 April, we will be leading a technical workshop on…
