Twitch vs YouTube vs Kick

Platform Wars: your platform is your team.

Platform Wars is a team battle for multistreams: everyone watching on YouTube is one team, Twitch is another and Kick is a third, and they race to type the word on screen. It settles the oldest argument in chat with actual numbers.

At a glance

Type the word on screen to push your platform's bar.

YouTube leads race three. First bar to 100 takes the race.
Players
10+
across platforms
Round
5 races
short ones
Input
Team
your platform picks your team
Needs
Upstream.so
multistreaming, for chat teams
Made by
StreamArena
our own game

How does Platform Wars work?

A word appears on screen, and every viewer who types it pushes their platform's bar forward. First bar to the top wins the race, and five races make a game. Each player counts once every half second, so the platform with more people wins, not the fastest typist.

Why does it need Upstream.so?

Because the teams are the chats. Pitting YouTube, Twitch and Kick against each other means reading all three at once, and StreamArena reads chat through Upstream.so's Multi-chat. Multistream with Upstream.so and Platform Wars is already a scene, Rumble included.

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Can phone players join?

Yes. Phone players pick the platform they are watching on and tap to push its bar. That also makes Platform Wars work in OBS without chat: the teams are whatever your viewers pick.

Built for multistreams.

Chat teams come from Upstream.so. Phones can join from anywhere.

Chat plays
Stream with Upstream.so

Your chat plays by typing. YouTube, Twitch, Kick and Rumble chat land on one scoreboard, on Upstream.so's free plan too.

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OBS, Streamlabs, Meld

Add the game as a browser source. Viewers scan the code on screen and play from their phone. Free, no app, no account.

Guests join from their phone in every setup, and their answers stay secret until you reveal them.

Scoring. Answers count by the moment they were sent, so a slow chat never decides who was first.

Questions

Which platforms can play?

YouTube, Twitch, Kick and Rumble chat, when you multistream through Upstream.so. Phone players can pick any team.

Does it work if I only stream to one platform?

It is built for two or more. On one platform, play Tug of War and pick two teams instead.

Is it fair to the smaller platform?

Bigger chats push harder, so it is fairest when your platforms are close in size. Loud small chats do win.

Do viewers see which platform scored?

Yes. Every name on the scoreboard carries a badge for where that viewer is watching.