[For Game Devs] 8 Compelling Reasons to Integrate Crowd Control for Streaming Interactivity

Crowd Control
3 min readJul 10, 2023

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In the ever-evolving landscape of streaming entertainment, captivating and engaging viewers has become a top priority for content creators and game developers alike. One of the most effective ways to achieve this is through interactive experiences that allow viewers to actively participate in the gameplay. However, building and maintaining a custom interactive system can be a daunting and resource-intensive task. That’s where Crowd Control comes in.

Crowd Control is a groundbreaking platform that offers a ready-made solution for integrating interactive features into your streaming experience. Whether you’re a game developer or a content creator, embracing the power of Crowd Control can revolutionize the way you engage with your audience.

Here are eight compelling reasons why you should consider integrating Crowd Control into your streaming endeavors.

1. Time and Resource Efficiency

  • Integrating Crowd Control’s already existing and free plugins saves significant development time and resources compared to building interactive systems from scratch.
  • Crowd Control provides ready-made solutions with a comprehensive set of interactive features, eliminating the need for extensive coding and testing.

2. Expertise and Specialization

  • Building robust interactive systems requires expertise in both game development and viewer engagement mechanics.
  • Crowd Control specializes in providing interactive tools for streamers, offering a solution developed by experts in viewer interaction and live streaming platforms (most of our team members are or were streamers themselves!).

3. Seamless Integration

  • Crowd Control offers seamless integration with all popular streaming platforms and existing game frameworks, ensuring compatibility and reducing technical challenges. Don’t worry about optimizing for all streaming platfoms, Crowd Control can already be used by streamers on Twitch, YouTube, TikTok, Kick, Facebook, Discord, Trovo and all platforms.
  • Building interactive systems from scratch may require additional work to integrate with streaming platforms and ensure smooth communication between the game and streaming software.

4. Extensive Feature Set

  • Crowd Control offers a wide range of interactive features, such as viewer-controlled power-ups, in-game events, modifiers, and challenges.
  • Building these features from scratch would require significant development effort, testing, and ongoing maintenance.
  • Additional features like price scaling, effect pools, overlays, multi platform support, multi language support, charity stream support, automatic refunds for failed effects, creator dashboard, and many more are things you don’t need to worry about as a game developer.

5. Scalability and Adaptability

  • Crowd Control is designed to handle large-scale viewer interaction, ensuring smooth gameplay experiences even with a high number of participants. It’s even been featured at large-scale events with 100,000+ concurrent viewers like GamesDoneQuick.
  • As streaming audiences grow, integrating Crowd Control ensures scalability without compromising performance or viewer experience.

6. Community

  • By integrating with Crowd Control, game developers gain exposure to a vibrant streaming community of over 80,000 creators actively seeking interactive gameplay experiences.
  • Crowd Control provides a platform where streamers and viewers can discover and engage with games that offer unique interactive elements, leading to increased exposure and potential player base growth.

7. Feedback and Iteration

  • Integrating with Crowd Control allows game developers to gather valuable feedback from streamers and viewers regarding the interactive elements.
  • Developers can use this feedback to refine and improve the interactive features, enhancing the overall gaming experience based on real-time user input.

8. Cost-effectiveness

  • Integrating Crowd Control offers a cost-effective solution compared to the time, resources, and ongoing maintenance required for building and maintaining custom interactive systems.
  • Developers can allocate their resources to core game development instead of dedicating significant effort to reinventing interactive mechanics.

You probably don’t run your own email server so why would you try to build your own interactivity platform? Mutually beneficial partnerships are paramount at Crowd Control, we want to see your games succeed. So work with us, the industry leaders in game interactivity and together, we can create magic.

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Crowd Control

Interactive Gaming Application. We let viewers interact with the games creators' play on stream. Available on Twitch, YouTube, TikTok and more.