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Hello and, for some of you, welcome back! I'll be trying to lead the Extra Life team again for 2017, but I will be needing help! With Amoebic's help we had our most successful year, bringing in $4,078.46 before January 1st. 2017. All of that money was distributed throughout the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals of North America, arming the medical industry with more funds to help children and families suffering a wide variety of ailments and conditions.
If you're not familiar, Extra Life is a charity dedicated to Children's Hospitals. The big draw is that, instead of seeking sponsorship for a running or biking marathon, you'll instead be seeking sponsorship to play video games for 24-hours straight on "Game Day". In 2017, Game Day is officially November 4th (and, falling on daylight savings time, means you can optionally challenge yourself to play for 25-hours straight instead). However, you don't have to adhere to this day or timeframe. Many players with families or busy schedules not only choose alternate days, but also divide the work across multiple days.
For 2017, I'd like to better plan out the streaming schedule for game day, community games, and handling communication between streamers.
In addition, I'd also like to see if we could have rotating members of the community do regular streaming events on the GamersWithJobs Twitch channel to better interact with the community, increase community awareness and involvement, and perhaps find more recruits. It could also build opportunities for different streamers and team members that don't often communicate much to develop a better rapport that will make Game Day both more comfortable and entertaining.
This thread is for brainstorming, advice seeking, advice giving, and gauging interest in select multiplayer games. Feel free to post any ideas, suggestions, or questions.
I won't be able to take part this year sadly, I will be on a plane to America on the 5th of November (The day I would be doing it due to time zone magic). That is assuming there is no scheduling issues, which may very well happen.
Maybe I can do 24 hours of gaming while flying
Missed out last year, but I'm interested in doing it again this year! I'll favourite and confirm myself a bit nearer the time.
I'll likely be in this year, barring something terribly unfortunate happening.
Thanks for the invite! I'd love to do some streaming if you're still looking for volunteers. I'm not a great player but I will do my best to be entertaining.
I'm in a bit of a quandary. I'm pretty sure GamerParent Network is doing its own team this year, but we can collaborate, right?
I'd love to do some streaming for the crew if possible! My new house finally has 10 upload so I should be able to hack it!
The game I'm thinking would fit would be a game of Rimworld featuring donors/streamers/chat members as characters in the game.
I'm interested in both participating in Extra Life and dipping my toe into the GWJ stream on Twitch. Does Extra Life 2017 start on November 4?
Some buddies and I play Heroes of the Storm every Thursday night. I just checked with them, and they'd be okay with streaming. We are not very good, but I think we're pretty entertaining.
Another buddy of mine is interested in streaming Bloodborne co-op with me. We could probably be fairly flexible with when we'd run that, but I'd be cool with making it a regularly scheduled thing for folks to follow along with.
I'm in to solo the 25 hour day this year again. It was super fun last year. My Italy location means I can be of use during some weaker US times. Keep the streamers pumped up!
Also I stream most evenings (2000-2300 CET / 2-4 PM EST).
Also I'm down to do whatever stream events people want to do. It's fun!
Thinking about it more, I think that one-off streams are probably the most manageable for everyone involved. It'll allow us to dip our toes into the process, see how we think it's going, and iterate as we go. If after a while it becomes clear that some streams would warrant a recurring slot, I'd say that'll be a good problem to solve.
Can confirm. Bloodborne FTW. I'm also much better at Bloodborne than I am HotS.
I'm keen to help out throughout the year for sure! I usually play with the L4D2 Goodjers on the weekends vs games, so I can do some streaming of that.
Some Dark Souls II streaming could be really fun during the Return to Drangleic event, February 25 - March 11. I'd totally be down for that, and I think cthos would as well.
I'd like to participate this year if possible. Need me to sign up somewhere?
I'm all signed up, and I'm happy to do the full 24 hours! I'll try to find some things to do nearer the time, not sure on the format, but being in the U.K., I'm happy be one of the people who will kick us off. Two things I'd like to do are getting a few of the European gwj people to play a few games at the start and also see if I can get an eu4 multiplayer game going.
(you can bet I want to do an Overwatch PS4 stream again
Up for that again. I'm wondering if differing daylight savings help out this time.
Happy to help out and be a +1 through the year where possible, a few hurdles permitting...
In the UK... So timezones. But saying that usually only get to game quite late in the eve (after about 22.30pm GMT for an hour or two). One random weekend night might get a full evening in. Scheduling anything too far in advance tricky basically.
On Mac, no PC so for this am PS4 only.
Multiplayer games owned could get involved with... Overwatch, The Division and thinking about picking up For Honor when price drops. Happy to pick up a MP game to get involved if not on the pile (if the price is right).
Cheers.
This all sounds good to me. I think the best thing is to start doing it and then stay in communication about how it's all going, figure out what's working and what's not, etc. Would a Google spreadsheet or doc be a good place to start coordinating stream schedules and blocking out scheduled streams?
It looks like the calendar only shows free/busy, not the actual event details. I think you should be able to allow visibility of event details without full calendar access.
I'll ping my buddies about scheduling some nights for us to stream.
TeamUp looks like it'll work!!!
So being new to streaming, how much would I need to talk to the audience? I'd love to stream a Warhammer Total War game but I'm afraid I can't talk that much at night so as to not disturb the kiddo once he's asleep.
It's all about your style. I think more people would enjoy hearing your thought process behind your decisions as you're making them, or other stuff about your life. The benefit and the joy of streaming is the live interaction, so people expect some degree of that.
That said, it's the internet, so there are plenty of people around who are down to chill and watch some Warhammer with a few intense whispers.
Depends on what the purpose of the GWJ channel is. Do we have a mission? A vision? A purpose? Are we a collection of people explaining games? Or just a collection of the community keeping content going on the channel?
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