Twitch Plays Pokemon

Twitch chat is available via IRC (or was). Various tools exist on the web that allow you to grab the chat. They then take the chat and run it through a script that strips everything but "up down left right start select". The chat is then read as commands for the game via a different script probably and displayed on the screen via another tool of some sort.

Basically, no there isnt a monkey hammering away on a keyboard that moves the character. It's all done by the chat.

Ah, so this confirms my second guess. I wonder who was the genius person that came up with this idea.

It's in the FAQ on the stream page.

My bad. I don't Twitch enough to know the very bottom of the stream can contain more information. I don't scroll down at all if I can watch the stream.



**Also, my god this current part of the game:

Team Rocket security.