A TheChunks original · engineered with R0ice
FLINCH
The silent, stream-controlled foam turret. Viewers redeem it, and it fires a soft ball at your face before you hear a thing.
The silent, stream-controlled foam turret. Viewers redeem it, and it fires a soft ball at your face before you hear a thing.
A jumpscare you can't see coming. No wind-up whine, no spin, no warning — just a soft foam ball to the face on a redeem. This is TheChunks' concept; we're turning it into a real product, built and tuned live on stream.
USB can't launch a ball on demand — so FLINCH silently pre-loads between shots and sits cocked and ready. The first sound anyone hears is the launch itself.
A viewer spends points, bits, or cash on your redeem. That signal hits the turret over USB.
A pre-loaded spring is tripped by the trigger — no motor spin-up, no hiss, zero tell.
A soft foam ball taps you in the face. You flinch. Chat wins. It re-loads itself for the next one.
Energy is stored slowly and dumped instantly. No wind-up gives away the shot.
Big soft balls (too large to reach the eye), capped low energy, and a hard tilt-stop that keeps the muzzle below your eyeline.
No compressor, no CO₂ canisters, no batteries to swap. Plug it into your PC and go.
An onboard face-cam tracks you and keeps the shot on target even as you move.
Compact turret clamps to your setup and points right at the hot seat.
A magazine of balls feeds itself, so back-to-back redeems keep firing.
Once the turret talks to your stream, the redeem layer gets fun. Ideas on the table:
FLINCH is in active prototyping. Watch it come together live, or drop a line to be first when units are ready.