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Though Facebook doesn’t have specific plans to court broadcasters who are livestreaming on platforms like Twitch, Olebe says that it’s not a stretch to think that influencers may want to give it a spin to create a social gaming experience with their audience.

Basically, at the top left hand corner, we show that there are likes and reactions and emojis coming in, but we don’t actually send them across the screen.” “It’s a bit of a different use case than when you’re streaming an event. “Right now we’ve decided that we don’t want to interrupt gameplay,” said Messenger’s product manager Mike Weingert.

Though people will be able to like and comment on the broadcast, you won’t see any emoji floating across the screen as you do in live event streams. Once you go offline, it stays posted so that folks who missed it can still re-watch it. When you go live in an Instant Game, it begins streaming to your Facebook page. “We wanted to make sure to tap into that and give our users the chance to show off the games they’re playing and the games they’ve fallen in love with.” “We know that video is extraordinarily important to discovering and sharing,” said Facebook’s global director of games partnerships Leo Olebe. Facebook also announced today that games such as Rovio Entertainment’s Angry Birds will be joining the Instant Games platform next year, along with integrated video chat in multiplayer games starting with Zynga’s Words with Friends. And starting today, you’ll be able to livestream your sessions. It’s since grown its library to 70, including arcade classics like Tetris as well as modern scrolling shooters BlackStorm Labs’s EverWing.

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