Twitch streamer with ALS goes viral for playing games with eye tracker

sportskeeda.com:

Twitch streamer YvMHawking, who hails from Turkey and has ALS, is being showered with admiration by the internet after a clip of him playing games using an eye tracker went viral on social media.

Ben Gurkan is a 32-year-old diagnosed with this incurable neurological disease marked by nerve damage that facilitates movement. As such, the content creator cannot move his hands and legs, but that has not stopped him from streaming and even making games.

The clip entitled "Gurkan tahliye oluyor" portrays the streamer playing Knight Online, an MMORPG initially released in 2004 with the help of an eye tracker. The technology not only allows him to play but also interact with chat as he types to talk to his audience.

Twitch Tracker notes that the YvMHawking, short for Yerli ve Milli Hawking or Local and National Hawking, has been streaming on the purple platform since 2016 but only recently blew up at the end of January. The clip above was recently posted on the subreddit r/LivestreamFail, and since then, it has garnered almost 100K unique views.

As per YvMHawking's Twitch description, he is a postgraduate in Biology and explained that he has been suffering from ALS since he was 25. Most of his days are spent on the computer, so he started streaming.

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That's not all, as YvMHawking also partakes in game-making. As per his Twitch description and the official steam page of the game, he is developing a JRPG called the Ludicrous Uprising. The streamer also requests that people trying to support him should wishlist the game to be notified of its release:

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The fact that YvMHawking has overcome such obstacles, such as being unable to move any of his limbs and using his PC solely through eye trackers