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|-|Next Up Hero=
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The next two Digital Continue titles released in 2018. The first of these was Next Up Hero, an online roguelike action game published by [[:wikipedia:Aspyr|Aspyr]] where the player can respawn "Echoes" of any fallen player to fight by their side as an NPC companion and have their audience participate on Twitch and Mixer streams. Next Up Hero was negatively received, citing the imprecise controls, unfair difficulty, the storyline and dialogue vignettes not lending themselves to the gameplay and online-only elements. Prior to the game's release, a two-issue comic series titled Spoken World would come out, written by Tringali and lettered by Justine Raymond. This comic detailed the backstory of the game's protagonists and the world they explore within the game. The trademark for both the game and the Spoken World comic would be declared "Abandoned" by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office<ref>[https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=87482494&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch Next Up Hero, USPTO]</ref><ref>[https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=87384669&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch Spoken World, USPTO]</ref> - despite this, Next Up Hero's servers remain active as of November 2025.
The next two Digital Continue titles released in 2018. The first of these was Next Up Hero, an online roguelike action game published by [[:wikipedia:Aspyr|Aspyr]] where the player can respawn "Echoes" of any fallen player to fight by their side as an NPC companion and have their audience participate on Twitch and Mixer streams. Next Up Hero was negatively received, citing the imprecise controls, unfair difficulty, the storyline and dialogue vignettes not lending themselves to the gameplay and online-only elements. Prior to the game's release, a two-issue comic series titled Spoken World would come out, written by Tringali and lettered by Justine Raymond. This comic detailed the backstory of the game's protagonists and the world they explore within the game, which has any creation influenced by sound. The trademark for both the game and the Spoken World comic would be declared "Abandoned" by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office<ref>[https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=87482494&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch Next Up Hero, USPTO]</ref><ref>[https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=87384669&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch Spoken World, USPTO]</ref> - despite this, Next Up Hero's servers remain active as of November 2025.
|-|JumpStream=
|-|JumpStream=
JumpStream was the second Digital Continue game released in 2018. This was a competitive platformer that utilized streaming interactivity, allowing for the audience to co-operate or mess up the player's progress within a level. Unlike Next Up Hero, which had Twitch integration, this was solely utilized with Mixer. According to archives within the Wayback Machine, no playthroughs of JumpStream were featured on Mixer, and the game was nowhere to be found on the site. The game had very little critical reception, with the Steam score of 65% Positive Reviews coming from just 20 players. With Mixer itself closing it's doors in June 2020, the game's interactive elements were discontinued, rendering it unplayable. The game is still available for download on Steam, however, and is able to load menus and let players explore the level select area, but very little of it can actually be completed.
JumpStream was the second Digital Continue game released in 2018. This was a competitive platformer that utilized streaming interactivity, allowing for the audience to co-operate or mess up the player's progress within a level. Unlike Next Up Hero, which had Twitch integration, this was solely utilized with Mixer. According to archives within the Wayback Machine, no playthroughs of JumpStream were featured on Mixer, and the game was nowhere to be found on the site. The game had very little critical reception, with the Steam score of 65% Positive Reviews coming from just 20 players. With Mixer itself closing it's doors in June 2020, the game's interactive elements were discontinued, rendering it unplayable. The game is still available for download on Steam, however, and is able to load menus and let players explore the level select area, but very little of it can actually be completed.
