Demolition Robots KK and Don Swagger coming to Switch, both to use Genvid interactive streaming tech

Interactive streaming SDK developer Genvid Technologies today revealed details of five new game titles featuring the next generation of enhanced livestreams using Genvid’s breakthrough tech. Denis Dyack’s Apocalypse Games, Impeller Studios, and other premier indie developers are among many game studios utilizing Genvid’s SDK, enabling much higher levels of interactivity and completely new forms of engagement for game streamers and their audience members, directly via Twitch, YouTube and other popular platforms.

“While the first priority is always the players of your game, entertaining and engaging the spectators is now just as crucial, making interactive streaming a must-have for virtually any game,” said Jacob Navok, CEO of Genvid. “The games we’re now disclosing go further than ever before in illustrating the power of our tech across myriad platforms, infrastructures and game engines.”

The newly disclosed games, all of which can be demoed live via livestreams enhanced with Genvid’s technology, include:

Demolition Robots KK from Throw the Warped Code Out

Japanese studio Throw the Warped Code Out, best known for Back in 1995, is prepping Demolition Robots KK, its four-player, competitive robot action game, to launch on Nintendo Switch and PC this Winter. Players control giant robots bent on destroying city buildings.

Built on the Unity game engine and using Genvid’s enhanced streaming tech, viewers of the game cheer on players and see their viewer IDs on individual buildings in-game. Viewers watching their “home building” can cheer on players to destroy their building first in order to then start dropping traps to catch players in-game.

Don Swagger from Hearts Technology Corp

Don Swagger, a never-before-seen experimental game from Japanese software developer Hearts Technology Corp., also built in Unity and coming to the Nintendo Switch, is a simple, tennis-like game that stretches the definition of spectator sport in interesting ways. Acorns and nuts – which pop in seconds – are falling onto the field, and two players on each team will use rackets to hit them over a net to the opponent’s side. A player or team who sends and pops the most acorns on the opponent’s field wins.

Through the interactive livestream, viewers can earn “Don points” by collecting blue flames that appear when a nut explodes, and use those points to purchase additional nuts to add to the gameplay, equip players with upgraded rackets, apply in-game cosmetics to favorite players, and more.