Take a deeper dive into the technical details of using Twitch Commerce to sell your games and items on Twitch. What are the options and tradeoffs? What code do you need to write? Come on in! The water's fine.  Jon Pulsipher, Integration Success Engineer, Twitch

1. Diving into Twitch Commerce
to sell your game and items

2. Introductions
Jon Pulsipher
Integration Success Engineer
Twitch: jonpulsipher_ise

3. What we’ll cover
• Why sell your games on Twitch
• What options we offer for commerce…
• …and how you should choose between them
• …and the technical work involved
• How to get started

4. Why sell your games on Twitch?

5. 25M
38%Mobile users
Daily chat interactions
Monthly active devices
100M
SOURCE | Twitch Internal Data

6. Why sell your games on Twitch?

7. • Twitch App Game Library
• Twitch distributes the game bits
• Premium downloads
• Twitch Entitlement Service
• Twitch Account linking
• REST API
• Twitch Commerce SDK
• C++ SDK
• Runtime ownership checks
• In-game commerce
Twitch Commerce Options

8. Why sell your games on Twitch?

9. Think about…
• …what you’ll sell?
• …how will customers get it?
• …what Twitch Crate bonus items can you provide?
• Emotes, Chat badges, In-game content, etc.

10. Game
Distribution?
Twitch Non-Twitch
In-game
store, ownership
check?
In-game items?
Game Library Game Library + SDK
No Yes
Twitch Entitlement
Service (TES)
Server?
Yes
Yes
STOP
No
No

11. Game
Distribution?
Twitch Non-Twitch
In-game
store, ownership
check?
In-game items?
Game Library Game Library + SDK
No Yes
Twitch Entitlement
Service (TES)
Server?
Yes
Yes
STOP
No
No

12. Game
Distribution?
Twitch Non-Twitch
In-game
store, ownership
check?
In-game items?
Game Library Game Library + SDK
No Yes
Twitch Entitlement
Service (TES)
Server?
Yes
Yes
STOP
No
No

13. Game
Distribution?
Twitch Non-Twitch
In-game
store, ownership
check?
In-game items?
Game Library Game Library + SDK
No Yes
Twitch Entitlement
Service (TES)
Server?
Yes
Yes
STOP
No
No

14. Game
Distribution?
Twitch Non-Twitch
In-game
store, ownership
check?
In-game items?
Game Library Game Library + SDK
No Yes
Twitch Entitlement
Service (TES)
Server?
Yes
Yes
STOP
No
No

15. Game
Distribution?
Twitch Non-Twitch
In-game
store, ownership
check?
In-game items?
Game Library Game Library + SDK
No Yes
Twitch Entitlement
Service (TES)
Server?
Yes
Yes
STOP
No
No

16. Game
Distribution?
Twitch Non-Twitch
In-game
store, ownership
check?
In-game items?
Game Library Game Library + SDK
No Yes
Twitch Entitlement
Service (TES)
Server?
Yes
Yes
STOP
No
No

17. Game
Distribution?
Twitch Non-Twitch
In-game
store, ownership
check?
In-game items?
Game Library Game Library + SDK
No Yes
Twitch Entitlement
Service (TES)
Server?
Yes
Yes
STOP
No
No

18. Game
Distribution?
Twitch Non-Twitch
In-game
store, ownership
check?
In-game items?
Game Library Game Library + SDK
No Yes
Twitch Entitlement
Service (TES)
Server?
Yes
Yes
STOP
No
No

19. Game
Distribution?
Twitch Non-Twitch
In-game
store, ownership
check?
In-game items?
Game Library Game Library + SDK
No Yes
Twitch Entitlement
Service (TES)
Server?
Yes
Yes
STOP
No
No

20. The Games Library &
the Commerce SDK

21. Game Library Integration
• You give us the game bits
• We publish them (and future updates)
• Simplest way to sell your game on Twitch
• Optionally, you can use the SDK
• Runtime entitlement check
• In-game commerce

22. Twitch Commerce SDK
• C++ SDK
• Check for Twitch Entitlement Service entitlements from your client
• Build an in-game store that sells items through the Twitch Commerce system
• Ensure a signed in Twitch user is running the game from the Twitch App

23. Twitch Entitlement Service

24. Account Linking Best Practices
• Scopes: think broadly
• Use the Authorization Code Flow
• Store both access and refresh tokens
• Handle auth failures (40x)
• retry, refresh, re-link
• Support unlinking from your side
Reference: https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/authentication
Sample code: https://github.com/TwitchDev/authentication-samples
Forums: https://discuss.dev.twitch.tv

25. Twitch Entitlement Service
Customer
Viewing Channel
Page
Twitch Your Game Server
Customer buys
item and
completes
purchase flow
Twitch stores
entitlement info
for user
Instructions on
Thank You page
to claim item
TES

26. Twitch Entitlement Service
Customer
Viewing Channel
Page
Twitch Your Game Server
Customer buys
item and
completes
purchase flow
Twitch stores
entitlement info
for user
Instructions on
Thank You page
to claim item
TES
Link Twitch Acct
Get list of goods
Store Oauth
tokens
/commerce/user/goods
Parse list for
“Fulfill” or
“Revoke”
{
"goods": [
{
"receipt_id": "b8018fd4-9d8b-45b7-87e1-cfd6fdc1d8ed",
"sku": "AmazingGame_001",
"next_instruction": "NOOP"
},
{
"receipt_id": "7dc926fe-75bb-41e3-ad83-a99ed5b00d3e",
"sku": "SuperFunPack_001",
"next_instruction": "REVOKE"
},
{
"receipt_id": "6a1b755e-7703-46ce-8464-7eae4802a4e3",
"sku": "AnotherSuperFunPack_002",
"next_instruction": "FULFILL"
}
]
}
Complete fulfill/
revoke actions
Call Fulfill
endpoint
Game/item
entitlement
/commerce/user/fulfill

27. Ready…Steady…Go!

28. Next Steps
• Engage with our Business Development team
• Register your app on dev.twitch.tv
• We’ll provide additional documentation and support
• Explore your goals and the best option for your game and
your business

29. Thank you