A Twitch streamer is utilizing a real-life dunk tank throughout his livestreams to inspire himself to keep away from falling within the tough precision platformer and livestreaming sensation, Solely Up!
Solely Up!, developed by SC-KR Video games, is an impediment course recreation the place gamers are tasked with navigating steep environments with out tumbling again right down to the place they began. Assume Getting Over It if it had been a 3D platformer, albeit one with out a particular person utilizing a sledgehammer to catapult himself over hard-to-reach heights. The sport obtained so well-liked that even a user-created clone in Fortnite drew enormous numbers. However we’re not right here to speak about Fortnite, we’re right here to speak concerning the Twitch streamer who determined to crank his Solely Up! streams up a notch by enjoying whereas sitting in a dunk tank.
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KeatDawg, a 20-year-old Twitch streamer hailing from Atlanta, Georgia, just lately streamed himself enjoying Solely Up! In entrance of his 6,500 followers whereas anxiously swinging his ft above the welcoming water of the dunk tank under him. Because of his two-camera setup, viewers can see him up-close whereas one other digicam offers us a transparent view of the dunk tank.
This isn’t the primary time that KeatDawg has used the tank whereas livestreaming on Twitch. “Initially the concept got here from a recreation I performed final 12 months known as Bounce King (related style to Solely Up!) the place I might dunk for each fall,” KeatDawg instructed Kotaku through Twitter DMs. “That’s how I obtained my begin streaming final August, and since then I’ve been making different stuff, however I’ve gotten lots of replies asking me to carry the dunk tank again for Solely Up!.”
As of this writing, KeatDawg has solely streamed himself enjoying Solely Up! within the dunk tank as soon as, however he believes he’ll finally handle to complete the sport with out getting dunked the “over 1000 instances” he did throughout his Bounce King streams.
“These video games simply take some time to study,” he mentioned. “The most important hurdle for me is [that] I’m dunking as quickly as I fall, so I received’t be capable to save myself and can most likely go straight again to the underside of the sport.”
You possibly can try a VOD of KeatDawg’s Solely Up! dunk stream.
Sadly, KeatDawg’s first Solely Up! dunk tank stream didn’t go so properly (for his garments no less than) as a result of he plummeted into his makeshift dunk tank 20 minutes into his 50-minute livestream. Based on KeatDawg, his plunge into the murky depths was because of a nasty key-binding on his mouse which prompted him to float to the fitting whereas strolling throughout metallic beams. He additionally added that he needed to minimize his first dunk stream brief as a result of his keyboard fell into the tank and broke. To his credit score, no less than his mouse by no means took the plunge, regardless of being dangerously near becoming a member of him.