[00:00] Twitch chat plays Pokemon is amazing, but what if we could do that with literally any game? Well, you can. Today, I'm showing you how to give a chat full control of any game on your stream. This works for Twitch or YouTube.
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[00:53] First up, head to the Streamer Bot website that I will link in the description for you. This is is the tool we're going to use to let viewers control your game. You'll download it, right click it, extract the zip file, and then you're going to get this big folder of random shit.
[01:05] It looks very confusing, so personally, I like to move this entire folder somewhere I can easily remember, like my OBS Reboot folder on my desktop. This is where I keep all of my plugins and overlays so I never lose them. I'll then go into that folder,
[01:17] and I'll find the .exe. I will right click that, and I will pin this to my taskbar. This way, it's easy to open alongside OBS, which is going down to my taskbar, clicking OBS, and clicking streamer bots. So open them both up, and now, before anything else,
[01:30] we need to connect to our platform, so Twitch and or YouTube, depending on what you're using. Go to the platform tab, click Twitch, and on the left, log in to your main streaming account. If you happen to have a bot account, yes, you can also log that in in this exact spot, but we're not going to be using that today.
[01:43] And if you want to log in to YouTube, well, exactly the same. Go to platforms, click YouTube account, and log in. The only thing the platform will change in this video is you'll use different triggers to let chat control your game, and the tool will read YouTube chat instead of Twitch chat if you're on YouTube, for example.
[01:56] Next, we need to take StreamerBot to OBS, or I guess Streamlabs if you want to run it that way. But I can't bring myself to install Streamlabs again, so I'm just going to show you OBS, and I really hope it's similar, but knowing Streamlabs, they've probably made it overly complicated and impossible.
[02:08] So, go to Streamapps, right-click, and add. Name this OBS, or ABCDEFG if you want, and then if you're on the latest or even just a recent version of OBS, you're going to leave this as version 5. If you're not, consider updating.
[02:21] Everything still works, there's no reason not to update as far as I know. Lead, host and port as the exact same. And now for password, we need to get this from OBS. Head to OBS, go to Tools, find WebSocketServer and generate a password.
[02:34] Then click Show Connect Information, copy the password and paste it back into the StreamerBot password section we were just at. Enable Auto Connect and Reconnect, click OK. And if you don't auto connect, right click and just simply click Connect.
[02:46] So this says connected. If you have issues getting connected, you're probably accidentally generating new passwords or not saving the password properly. So just watch the video again, do exactly as I did and it will work. With that done and connected we are now ready to start setting up the Twitch chat controlled game. You can do this with pretty much any
[03:01] game that uses a keyboard but it does work better for simpler games with simpler controls. A big note is it works really well with games that don use a mouse to look around So for example Pokemon This is incredibly easy to set up because it easy to up down left right start and select That just 8 buttons for chat to use and type in chat
[03:18] Starting setting up Minecraft like we are today will have a lot of different keys that a normal player will press and not just that you also need to be able to hold down certain keys to walk or brace blocks. So be aware you'll get everything you need in this video to do more complex games but
[03:31] if you're a beginner consider starting on a simple game. Let's set up our first command, the one that will let viewers press spacebar and jump. If we go to the command section, we can right click, add, and here we can set up a new command. Let's name this exclamation mark space and add it to the command box.
[03:44] Now, I want them to be able to put that command anywhere in the message. So, over on the right, I will set the location to anywhere rather than just being forced to have it at the start of the message. Then, I can change the permissions. But if we want anyone to be able to use the space bar, so we're not actually going to change it,
[03:57] but if we wanted only paying subscribers or only moderators to be able to use this, we would click on them and then we'd click this little arrow over here to move them over to the right-hand side. Now, over on sources, I will check Twitch messages, and because I linked my Twitch account, that will mean only my Twitch chat is being read.
[04:11] But you can pick YouTube if you're using YouTube as the test, or if you want, pick both, I don't think it matters. Below that, I can set a global cooldown, which is how long all users have to wait to use that command again. Or, if I just want, I can set it so one user can't keep triggering the same command over
[04:25] and over and over. Don't set these too high or else people will get bored waiting until they can use another command, but don't set them so low that anyone is going to be able to spam and ruin the entire thing. happy with this I click OK. Now I'm not going to bore you by showing me making every single command
[04:38] that you'll need because it's the exact same process every time. Make a new command, name it, put the command as spacebar or whatever the corresponding key is going to be and then go from there. If there is a key to be pressed by chat to control the game then there needs to be
[04:50] a corresponding command. So let's now show you how to link these commands you're going to make to your keyboard and in turn the game. Head over to the actions tab and I want you to right click actions and make a new action. This action is going to connect our spacebar command so type
[05:03] space as the name. Now before doing anything else this is a really important step. Type out the group keyboard control. This will give a new drop down where all your keyboard controls will appear as long as you selected each time you make a new action. It's really important for later,
[05:17] please don't forget to do this. But with that done we click okay and now we're going to set up our trigger aka what event will happen to trigger the action. We're going to right click triggers and we're going to use the command that we just set up earlier as our trigger. But as I said earlier
[05:29] you can also lock all these keyboard presses to find any trigger at all such as Twitch follows. gifted subs, channel points, you name it, I'll show you how to get really fancy with it in a little bit. So, select the command, exclamation mark, space in your dropdown by going to core, commands, command trigger, and pick space.
[05:44] Now our trigger is set, we need to set the sub action. I know it seems complex, but trust me, once you're done, it'll look really simple and you'll be fine. Now we right-click sub action, go to core, system, keyboard press, and pick the space bar from this big list of different keys on your keyboard.
[05:58] Now if we tried to test it, it wouldn't work because it would press the spacebar instantly, which does nothing in this window. So for testing, I like to add a 5 second delay to the sub-action by right clicking, core, delay, 5000 ms aka 5000 microseconds and drag it to the top. With that
[06:14] done, I right click the trigger, click test and tab over to Minecraft. If I wait 5 seconds after I click test it will simulate the spacebar and let my character jump Now hopefully you realised two really important things from this example First you may have realized I need to be tagged into the game for my keyboard to work with Minecraft That is going to be
[06:32] the case with every single setup. If I have my game open but I'm actually focused on a Google Doc over here, any keyboard redeems that happen from chat are going to happen in the Google Doc. I need to have Minecraft clicked so the
[06:44] keyboard is affecting the game. The second thing you've probably noticed is, well, your trigger worked. And if you want to test this even further, you can also go to a switch tab, type space, tab back to Minecraft, wait for 5 seconds, and if it jumps, well then congratulations, you've set up your first ever control command. Which means you
[06:58] might not want the 5 seconds delay anymore, so go back to your sub-action and delete those 5 seconds. This process is how you will set up every single keyboard press. Just make sure every action you make for your keyboard is under the keyboard controls group we set up earlier. It's really important for later, when I'll show you how to set up a kill
[07:12] switch so you can turn all of this off if it starts going wrong. Now while you're going through and setting all of these up for whatever game, you'll likely hit two The first, as I said earlier, is that you can't simulate your mouse looking around. And the second is the key is pressed once quickly and not held down.
[07:27] To solve the first issue slightly, most games let you keybind the clicks of a mouse. So, for example, take Minecraft. You can change the attack, destroy, use, place and tick block buttons, which are all usually different mouse clicks, to different unused keys on your keyboard, such as numpad or,
[07:41] in this case, BNM is what I'm going to be using. I'll then set a command, an action and a sub-action for those new keybinds so that viewers can control my mouse clicks with C and M. Obviously they can't control where to look, which sucks, but for games like Minecraft it actually becomes kind of like a fun co-op
[07:56] game where you're looking around and chat is controlling everything else. But if you don't want to do co-op and you want chat instead to have full control of the game, well you need to pick a game without mouse looking. But what about the second snag? What about holding down keys? Well if we look at Minecraft again, you need to hold down keys
[08:11] to not just move forward, left, right and backwards, but also to mind locks. If I key bind attack destroy from your mouse to the end button instead like I did earlier and then tried to use it you'd smack a block once it would regen and you'd be screwed. So let's set up a hold key
[08:25] command to tell people to hold down the key. We're going to use an extension for this it's really simple no downloads just go to the link in the description copy this code click import top left of streamer bot and paste it into the import string before clicking import. This will
[08:39] create a new command called exclamation mark hold key. You need to go to the commands and right click and then enable it as well, so please don't forget or else none of this will work. Now if we go back to actions, there are two more actions in the list.
[08:51] First is the hold key, this is the command type in chat to hold down certain keys, and then the other is hold key underscore redeem, this is for channel player redeem. We're focusing on commands because a lot of you guys aren't affiliates, so ignore the redeem version for now.
[09:03] Go back to hold key, click it, and we get a few arguments over on the right. These are the settings we need to set up, blacklist means any keys you don't want viewers to be allowed to hold down, and whitelist are keys that should be allowed to hold down.
[09:15] If you want them to access all the keys except only a few of them, add them to the blacklist. But if you want them to access none of the keys except a few, add them to the whitelist. We're going to add to the whitelist WASD by double-clicking whitelist in the arguments
[09:28] and then typing WASD. But we're also going to add B, N, and M because we want viewers to be able to hold down M to break blocks remember Below that is testing This is a delay we will turn off later but for now it helps us test by delaying the command 5 seconds before triggering much like we saw earlier Below that is default time this should change depending on the game
[09:46] but in short 1000 ms is 1 second, and whatever the number here is how long the key is held for. Personally for Minecraft I set this to 3500, because that's how long it takes to break wood barehanded, but I find 4 seconds might be better, just overall. Now once this is set up, you go into
[10:01] into Twitch chat and type !holdkeys w wait 5 seconds making sure you're tabbed into whatever game you're playing and your character will start walking forward for 4 seconds. If it works, test the other keys as well such as A, F, D, B and M and if you're happy, right
[10:16] click testing and turn testing off for it to be now instant rather than delayed by 5 seconds. Now that is pretty much all of it except I need to show you how to set up a kill switch to turn all of this off so stay tuned but first, what about big troll commands?
[10:30] Like, what if we wanted to drop every item in our toolbar inside Minecraft? Well, it's scarily easy to set this up. We make a new action called Drop All. We make the sub-action a series of keyboard presses that then do just that. For example, keyboard press 1, which selects toolbar slot 1,
[10:45] and then keyboard press Q right after, which drops the item that I've got selected. I can then repeat the Q press a few times, or turn it all into a group by right-clicking Group and moving it up. I'll now duplicate this group 9 times,
[10:57] and then I'll go through the new 8 that I just duplicated, changing their names so they correspond to the toolbar, from 1 to 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and then I'll add a little delay at the start before running a test.
[11:09] But wait, we didn't set up a trigger, so what are we testing? Well, we don't want this to just be a basic command that anyone can redeem, or else we'd never get anything done. We want the trigger to be something harder to do, like a Twitch sub. So, right-click Triggers, go to Twitch, Subscriptions, and pick maybe a gifted sub, a subscription,
[11:24] or any other event that you want to be able to activate this. Once that's done, right click it and click test. Tab into the game and as you can see, it'll drop everything. Now as I said at the start, giving randoms on the internet access to your keyboard might not be a great idea.
[11:38] This is a fairly safe way of doing it because really you're not giving them access to everything, you're just giving them access to a few individual keys that you'll set up and control. But if you set it up wrong, it can cause issues. That's why we're going to make sure we have a kill switch.
[11:50] The first is just closing streamer bot. If you close streamer bot, nothing will work. Literally, it just all breaks in seconds. No one can redeem anything. The second is a kill command. Make a new command called exclamation mark controls off. Don't give access to anyone except mods and yourself.
[12:06] Then head back to the actions platform and make a new action called turn off control. Set the trigger to be the command we just made and then you'll need to set up two sub actions here. They should be set as call action set action group state and you want to set it as disable
[12:19] hold key and the other as disabled keyboard control. Now if you just type exclamation control off in your chat, or even if you just right click and test the trigger, it will turn all those actions in those groups off, hence why grouping them all earlier was very
[12:33] important. When you're ready to turn all this back on, you can either make the same command in reverse, or just right click the action group and click enable. If you need help setting any of this up, please consider the Discord, we'll be able to help you run through everything, easy-point screenshots. Click here for more life-changing OBS tips,
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