"The Ship Game" Twitch Overlay

This started as a simple project to test Twitch chat integration in a Game Maker project. Over time it turned into something more interesting and became a stream favorite. It was featured on most of my game development streams for the few months that I regularly streamed.

People who watched my stream gained some currency every few minutes if they were active in chat. The currency could then be used to purchase ships (at increasing cost) which would sail around the screen and battle with other viewers' ships. A basic upgrade system allowed viewers to increase their ships speed, health, and attack power. Participants could also enter custom names for each of their ships as well as request a specific nation's flag to be displayed alongside each ship. Ships would sometimes pick up loot, awarding a player more currency or restoring some of that ship's health. Game progress is saved between streams.

Commands (bracketed parts are optional arguments):

• !ship [name] - Creates a ship with an optional name. The first ship is free, and the cost increases with each ship after.
• !stats ship# - Views that stats for the given ship.
• !give player amount - Give player an amount of gold.
• !upgrade type ship# - Adds one level of type to the given ship. Types:  speed, attack, defense.
• !fleet - View information about all of your current ships.
• !commands - View a list of possible commands.
• !gold - View your current gold balance.
• !help - View a brief description of how the game works.

This project is not currently available for download.