Beyond Twitch Plays Pokémon: New crowd-play Dick Starr Conquers Mars appears

It looks like the Twitch Plays Pokémon experiment has become the catalyst for an entirely new genre of game. Its name? “Crowd play.”

Where the Twitch Plays Pokémon event used a game that was never intended to be played in such a manner, Poor Ugly Dwarf‘s Yon Hardisty is attempting to design a retro-style shoot-’em-up, Dick Starr Conquers Mars, with crowd-play mechanics specifically in mind (it’s also being crowdfunded via Indiegogo).