Great work everyone! It was so much fun!
My thoughts.
+ Backstage chatroom for streamers. Good, especially in wee hours.
+ Rotate GWJ Prime channel hosting. That really amped me up when I had it, and it's a great way to showcase that thing each of us has that we're insanely passionate about. Keeps the stream fresh.
+ Use time to our advantage. I should still be in Italy next year. Between west coast, east coast, and Europe we pretty much always had someone reasonably awake. Let's continue to use that to our advantage.
- Improve our Twitch coordination. Putting each other's info in our channels, having good overlays, maybe a donation counter? I feel like we did not fully integrate or maximize the twitch platform. I'd say put the scehdule of what games and streamers will be on the GWJ Prime channel in the channel panels.
- Improve our pitches. Something I have to work on as a streamer, but I feel like we needed to more often just explain who we were, what we were doing, why, who the other people were, that kind of thing. Great time to pitch the GWJ community along with the Extra Life cause, let's take advantage of it!
- Rehearsals. It would have been a good idea to take a few minutes and meet each other on curse first and practice handing off the GWJ Prime stream to each other. Some wonky on stream stuff went down. Things happen, but, especially if we get new people next year, good to practice for a few minutes ahead of time, test out all the tech.
- Get more community involvement. Us doing this is basically community involvement, but maybe let the GWJ community pick a game for us to stream? Maybe invite the podcast crew to something?
Initial thoughts complete.
Sorry I wasn't involved this year! Got a baby on the way and a significant other who just got laid off. And I totally forgot cause life is crazy. Glad you raised so damn much money!
Congrats on the impending garion334! Baby Brain is A Thing(TM)
Everything Squee9 said. I went into this probably the least experienced user, so lots of stuff to learn from. I prefer to delegate and oversee so I welcome the feedback and call to arms.
You are a natural and very good at this. Look out, I'm coming for you and cathadan next year.
Count me in for anything you come up with, ccesarano. Participating in this was one of my best online experiences, and made a bunch of new friends in the process.
Like you, I'm still learning how to do a Lets Play well, but I think having active conversations during them makes for a more enjoyable viewing experience, plus it takes pressure of the main presenter. If we could get developers of these games to do it with us, that would be even more compelling and something that would be spectacular. I'm in!!
For the backstage channel I mean more of just a general thing to have. I liked having a channel to blast my pump up messages to the participants. Some teambuilding through shared hardship.
During stream I think it makes less sense. Two people playing different games on different streams but talking to each other seems awkward. Maybe while hosting his/her channel and talking about it sure. Or as a way to hand off the GWJ prime stream. Current streamer comes to a stopping place, introduces the new human, then switch streams while both are in the cruse channel so regardless of how the stream switching goes both the incoming and outgoing streamer are still transmitting over the GWJ prime channel. Once switch is complete, outgoing homie bows out, and the stream continues!
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