Alex Labat, a former news anchor turned Twitch streamer “Labat,” has developed a feature for his viewers called Twitch Plays World of Warcraft (WoW), where his chat room members can control one of his characters in Blizzard’s hit fantasy game World of Warcraft using various text commands.

The Twitch chat successfully reached max level with the character “Twitch Plays Jenkins” on Tuesday, which is level 70 in the retail version of the game. Labat told Decrypt via email that he created the feature because he wanted to see if his chat could accomplish that character feat, all without his help or interference. 

“I cheekily went with a Draenei because I felt like it ‘represented’ Twitch in a way,” Labat told Decrypt, noting the color scheme similarities. “As far as the class, that was random too. I put together the character to ‘test’ to see if it would work. But once I realized it did, chat took the wheel and it’s taken off from there.”

To control Labat’s character, players can type W, A, S, or D keys into his Twitch chat to move the character around, type “startrun” to make the character run, or press “F” to interact with items in the world, to name a few of the keybinds. Chat participants have made the Twitch Plays character embark on quests, run into walls, and kill enemies. 

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