Created an #extralife channel on the GWJ Slack. Interested folks should 100% chill out over there. Not least because I have piercing organizationally-related questions (the best kind?) for you.
Any recommendations on a mediocre headset for streaming?
I think my rig could maybe handle a roguelike and stream at the same time.
In decreasing order of recommendation: Sennheiser PC350, Logitech G930, whatever is fifty bucks at Best Buy.
But I'd recommend regular headphones and a decent USB dynamic microphone more, like a Samson C01u.
I'd certainly love to see if we could have everyone get on Curse's Extra Life channel one night to have a discussion on ideas and thoughts so we can figure out potential team game nights. For example, someone here has to have Mass Effect Andromeda, and a stream of the GWJ community playing that sounds like a great idea.
A Rocket League event with 6-8 people in Curse would also be amazing.
However, I'd certainly love to see if we could have everyone get on Curse's Extra Life channel one night to have a discussion on ideas and thoughts so we can figure out potential team game nights.
Great idea. This coming week is pretty flexible for me. There's a chance I'm out of town Thursday night, but otherwise I should be able to make something work!
How about next Saturday, April 15? Also, I didn't see an Extra Life channel in the Games with Jobs community. Did I miss it under one of the categories?
Oh, you did say that I guess I didn't read it
Shall we try to plan something for the week of April 17th? That's far enough ahead that I should be able to make just about any night work. Saturday, April 22, I'll be out during the day, though.
The only multiplayer game I play is Overwatch, so I'll probably pass on that meeting.
I should have something around the tooling I've been working on pretty soon.
So now I'm thinking that I'd like to stream a session of competitive coding on codingame.com. Basically it would look like this, only with one person and my American mid-east accent. I might take language or puzzle requests from the audience.
Yeah, it's time I do more to get involved with this stuff...
What's the thinking on steaming table top gaming, like the roll20 shows for D&D and Blades in the Dark? Logistics might be a little crazy, since I'd need a few players along for the ride but it's one of those things I've always wanted to do.
It's totally doable, but to get production values that make somebody want to watch it, in-person seems to be better? But maybe not feasible. Everybody needs face-time on the camera, though, which can get cluttered in a skypecast setup (and presumes you have a way to composite everyone into the scene).
When I talked to Julian at PAX, he expressed interest in running a two-hour session of some flavor on Game Day as part of the big dumb thing I'm throwing.
It's totally doable, but to get production values that make somebody want to watch it, in-person seems to be better? But maybe not feasible. Everybody needs face-time on the camera, though, which can get cluttered in a skypecast setup (and presumes you have a way to composite everyone into the scene).
When I talked to Julian at PAX, he expressed interest in running a two-hour session of some flavor on Game Day as part of the big dumb thing I'm throwing.
The Roll20 streams of Adam Koebel's games seem to do just fine. They composite webcams over top of the map and dice-rolling apps. I enjoyed several of them.
I wouldn't want to DM D&D for 24 hours either (or even 24 minutes, *blech*), but some Apocalypse World or Fate game might work better.
Yeah, I figure if it's worth doing, It's my job to raise the production values. I'd want to go all in on the video streams, on-screen maps, etc. I'm going to be experimenting with recording my upcoming sessions, so maybe I can test out some of these ideas at the same time.
I agree, a full 24 hour stream is impossible, but maybe a mini-campaign split up with a few hours on and a few off over the course of a day might work. It would be a lot like one of the online game cons. I'd want to play something more story-driven or rules light anyway.
Anyway, I'll register for the group and start on some ideas.
I am kind of building an overlay framework over here. Might be useful to you.
But I'd recommend regular headphones and a decent USB dynamic microphone more, like a Samson C01u.
Bought an almost new used C01U (Not Pro) off Amazon. Really excited to try it out. I might even take the black tape off my webcam!
I took it down after the last year's event, there's a persistent clutter issue with our channels
GWJ Extra Life 2017 Twitch/Curse Client
That's sad to hear, ccesarano, but may I say what a fantastic job you have done.
I'm almost definitely still up for doing it, I'm sure if others are involved then at the least we can come together to keep pushing it on.
Very sorry to hear ccesarano, life has a tendency to throw us curve balls that we do our best to catch. I'm determined to take part in this endeavour and will be recruiting from the main Streamer thread to make this happen.
I've never streamed before, but I'd like to get involved this year. Obviously, I'm not a good candidate to lead up this endeavour, but I'm here to help for whoever does pick up the reigns.
CCesarano - thanks for all you do for the community already!
Alright, so if CC's out, somebody will need to step up to run this thing. I have a trainwreck of my own to deal with for Game Day, as mentioned before (Boston area GWJ folks, you should get in touch with me and help make this thing awesome!), but I'll herd cats in absence of other options. If somebody else wants to throw their hat in the ring to head this up, you're more than welcome to.
Regardless of who's running this (and we can talk about it then), we should probably have a catch-up session sometime soon, probably this or next week, to coordinate what we're doing, whether we're looking to do some run-up stuff (I'll probably be running SMT3 at some point in late summer), that sort of thing.
Let's figure out a time to do a Google Hangout (I think video and a screenshare has pluses over a chat room for this sort of planning) and discuss Extra Life. Pick times you're available here: https://beta.doodle.com/poll/qss6t7z...
We also have a Slack channel, #extralife, and an Extra Life channel on Twitch, that are pretty quiet most of the time. If you're interested in Extra Life, maybekindof you should hang out there.
So uh
/looks around
Turnout a little light up here, huh?
If you're not going to be helpful, could you please not? Thanks.
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