How One Developer Got the Internet To Watch People Code

blottsie writes: While Twitch TV is generally used for livestreaming gameplay, Alexander Putilin has other plans for the platform. Putilin and his girlfriend are using Twitch to build a community of software developers and students who broadcast complex floating point operations and algorithm design to the rest of the world. The community is responding and growing alongside its newfound popularity. WatchPeopleCode is now facilitating live hackathons (there was one this weekend), enabling programmers to meet and collaborate with people that they'd otherwise never be able to.

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Re:Well, the jig is up for them now.

[shadwdrak]

Actually, Twitch a few months ago added a new channel called: Game Programming. It's also had a General Programming channel for longer than that. As long as you are streaming your programming to one of those channels you are completely within the rules of twitch. In fact, several streams have gotten partnered from streaming game development.

I stream all of my indie studio game development live to twitch in front of 100-200 people 8 hours a day, and there are many other game development streams.

If you want to see how streaming development is properly and entertainingly done: http://www.twitch.tv/whilke