peeping robin - hail to the sidekick

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"Peeping Robin" is a neologism created to investigate (with humor) the ever-growing role of cooperation in single player video games: from the "voyeuristic" pleasure of just enjoying watching someone playing to the relation built between player and watcher, up to the boom of Twitch phenomenon.

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PEEPING ROBIN HAIL TO THE SIDEKICK

#peepingrobin

Peeping1 Robin peep.ing ro.bin [pipin robin] The “voyeuristic pleasure” of watching someone playing a videogame. The watcher’s “immersion pleasure” is not intended as a process of passive exposure to images but in terms of embodiment and identification.

How does someone become a

peeping robin ?

ONCE UPON A TIME

BEING THE LAST OF 5 CHILDREN MEANT

ME!

ADAPT OR DIE

TRY TO PILE UP

THE RED PIEC..

TETRIS IS NO

CANDY CRUSH!

I KNOW WHICH

FURNITURE TO

SEARCH FOR

THE PASSWOR...

IMPOSSIBLE

MISSION IS

NO IKEA!*

*PLUS IT'S RANDOMIZED

AT EACH GAME

YOU’LL NEVER

GET PAST THAT

POOL OF WAT...

THOMAS

IS NOT ALONE!

COOPERATIVE SINGLE PLAYER?!

ONE PLAYER CONTROLS MULTIPLE COOPERATING

CHARACTERS

QUADRILATERAL COWBOY

ONE PLAYER CONTROLS THE GAME, PEEPING ROBIN COMPLAINS ABOUT THE READING SPEED

KENTUCKY ROUTE ZERO

WATCHING VS PLAYING

1.PLAYING IS TOO MUCH EFFORT YOU JUST ENJOY THE RIDE

2.YOU NEVER (ACTUALLY) LOSE BATMAN DOES

3.YOU (SLOWLY) BECOME THE MIND BUT NEVER GET THE BLAME OF FAILURE

THE BIG DISCOVERY

THE TURNING POINT June 6th 2011

Twitch1 tw.itch [tuitch] gaming live streaming video platform 43,000,000 Peeping Robins per month!

THE MORAL OF THE STORY

FROM THE BLACK SHEEP

TO THE CHICKEN THAT LAIS THE GOLDEN EGGS

THANK YOU!

#peepingrobin

BTW I HATE SONIC THE HEDGEHOG

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