Bet on Cobalt was a Twitch-based event created on January 19th, 2016[1] to promote the release of Cobalt. The event was run by Oxeye Game Studio and Mojang on the Twitch account "bot_cobalt"[2], and lasted until February 2nd, 2016; the release date of Cobalt.

Bet on Cobalt
The logo for Bet on Cobalt. A metalface is depicted in the negative space between solid-colored masses of pink and green. "Bet on Cobalt" is printed under the logo graphic in a single line,
Banner for Bet on Cobalt event
DurationStarted: 19 January, 2016
Ended: 2 February, 2016
Twitch Pagehttps://www.twitch.tv/bot_cobalt

Operation

Bet on Cobalt is an IRC bot for Twitch, initialized when the PC version of Cobalt is launched with the launch argument "-ircbot". Bet on Cobalt acquires the information necessary for connecting to Twitch chat via IRC through a twitch.sfg file the operator creates.

References

  1. (2016, January 19). Mojang on X. X. Retrieved May 10, 2024, from https://twitter.com/Mojang/status/689469081259343872
  2. (2016, January 19). "bot_cobalt" on Twitch.Tv. Twitch.tv. Retrieved May 10, 2024, from https://www.twitch.tv/bot_cobalt