Twitch doesn’t just want you watching games on its streaming service: it wants you interacting with them too. Building off of the success of internet sensations like “Twitch Plays Pokemon,” today Twitch is announcing a new initiative called “stream first” that it hopes will encourage developers to start integrating Twitch functionality directly into their games. As part of the announcement, Twitch is also announcing a new set of development services to help creators add these features, as well as the first trio of “stream first” games, which show some of the possibilities of baked-in Twitch functionality.
Source: Twitch is helping developers create games designed for streaming | The Verge