Gulliver’s Game: Multiviewer and Vtuber Extreme Asymmetric Game

Abstract

Although live streaming has grown increasingly popular, the interactive channels between the streamer and their viewers stays limited - mostly via live chat and virtual gifting. To improve this situation, thanks to the rise of Virtual Youtuber (Vtuber), we design a new game model - Multiviewer and Vtuber Extreme Asymmetric Game (MVEAG) - that profoundly enhances the interactivity of virtual live streaming. In the MVEAG model, massive viewers interact with the Vtuber streamer in the very game scene where they play together, but with extremely asymmetric roles. The Vtuber plays the main role whereas the viewers play supplementary roles. Both roles are indispensable in achieving the game objective so that the Vtuber has to establish different interactive strategies with their viewers in the gameplay. We design the Gulliver’s Game as an example of MVEAG model, in which we demonstrate spontaneous and complex in-game interactive behaviors, when multiviewers experience direct collaboration and confrontation with the streamer.