ThePaindog's BattleChat is an interactive VR and Non-VR multi genre game that allows players to fight against the viewers of a stream who use chat emotes or special commands as weapons.
Players are able to fight against their own chat if they are a streamer or the chat of other streamers if they choose. With the tagline, “Who's Chat Do You Dare Battle!?” BattleChat invites players, streamers, and viewers to engage with each other using chat in a unique and fresh way. Players of the game use their skill in wielding magic wands, scepters and spells or they can choose from medieval, modern or stone age weapons. The game play is varied and changes per level with game modes like tower defense, wave shooter. brain teasers and puzzle games all featuring the emotes of the chatting viewers. The design style also varies with the levels themed like Egyptian, Wild West, Medieval Castle, Elvin Forest, Modern Suburbia and KindomKandy.
ThePaindog's BattleChat is currently being developed by Keith Glover and is the first game to come out of the solo indie studio GloverGames. The game is made with Unity utilizing NVidia’s VR works, Steam Lab’s renderers, SteamVR, VRTK (virtual reality toolkit). ThePaindog's BattleChat is in the pre-alpha phase with an expected beta launch in early 2019.
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