Red Light Rush - Tiktok Live Interactive Game

Red Light Rush is the classic playground game of red light, green light, played against the streamer. Anyone who types in your TikTok LIVE chat drops onto a long field as a runner wearing their own profile picture, and every like is a step toward the line. At the far end stands the Watcher, a friendly traffic-light robot. While it looks away the light is green and everybody runs. When it spins round the light goes red, and anyone still moving is zapped back toward the start with a cartoon shock and a tumble. Nobody is hurt and nobody is ever removed from the game: a zap is only a setback.

Your own runner is on the field too, wearing a gold star. By default the host runs by itself, so you can keep talking to chat while it races them, and every so often it gets caught on red like everyone else. The host is a setting: switch Host runs by itself off to run it yourself with a key or a click and be zapped on red like anyone, or switch Host races off for a chat-only field with no host at all. Races run back to back, the first runner across the line wins, and every race the host wins makes the next field longer and changes the scenery.

Gifts are moves the Watcher can't see, so they are safe on red: a Step, a Sprint, a Rocket or a Jetpack for the sender's own runner, a Banana under the leader, or a Pie in the host's face. A Galaxy charges the Watcher's eye for a Searchlight that will sweep the field back unless someone sends the Blackout before the countdown ends, and every follow gives the new follower a Freeze Shield. Every phase of the race, every runner's metres and every gift amount are worked out on the ScrollPlay game server.