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https://www.humblebundle.com/ – Go and Buy Now! (If you have a Wii U and/or 3DS)
Date: May 24th
Start time: 8pm CT
Game: GTA V (PC), Super Mario 3D World (Wii U), & Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare (PC)
Started things off with some GTA V per request of one of my viewers. We did the standard affair of heists and missions, and it was generally fun. I personally just don’t enjoy it as much as other games. There are some great highlights from it though!
I ended up asking my chat what games they wanted to see and opted for Super Mario 3D World. Having previously beaten the game last stream, we were doing some of the “extra credit” stages and may were they hard. After passing a few stages, I did another game change over to Plants vs. Zombies for the rest of the evening. Here I was able to enjoy playing with a couple of my viewers and it was good to see how good they were compare to my novice level. ;)
Overall, it was one of the more active streams as I did go for 8 hours! This is the longest I’ve gone personally for my own channel, aside from some 24 hours streams done for charity. I picked up a lot of viewers thanks to a raid from GamerRiku and some avid late night/early morning players of PvZ. It was a lot of fun and worth the time spent.
Streaming Tech
I implemented some extra command timers on my moobot and they were a bit frequent. I had some comments of chat going over game chat so keeping both of things in mind. Also, turn off all AVG alerts!
Streaming Stats
Total Follows: 57
Total Views: 576
Stream Time: 8 Hours 9 Minutes
Streaming Quality: 540p @ 48FPS – 2000kbps Bitrate (Medium encoding)
Date: May 23rd
Start time: 8pm CT
Game: Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare (PC)
I had swapped out Super Monkey Ball for Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare for a viewer. Unfortunately, they didn’t come by to watch. :(
The stream went well and I had a very active chat tonight. It was quite fun. However, the stream was plagued with a number of issues in the game itself. Sticker packs wouldn’t open, packs that I did open will suddenly disappear. I hope things will improve the next time we play.
Streaming Tech
I changed up our encoding to Medium. The streaming quality looked slightly improved, but marginal at best. I will continue with this new setting to see how other games appear. I made some improvements with the overlay with the inclusion of chat. I did notice the webcam being out of sync. Will try to fix that tomorrow.
Streaming Stats
Total Follows: 46
Total Views: 539
Stream Time: 4 Hours 2 Minutes
Streaming Quality: 540p @ 48FPS – 2000kbps Bitrate (Medium encoding)
I grew up around laundromats and one of the greatest pastimes there are Street Fighter II and Pac-Man. For me, Pac-Man was my jam. So you can only imagine how happy I was to see this game being insanely cheap. Check it out before it’s too late!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/236450/
Date: May 21th
Start time: 8pm CT
Game: Mario Kart 8 (Wii U)
It has been a while and a half since I’ve Mario Kart 8, so I was really looking forward to this. With any Mario Kart game, you need a few warm up races, so I started off the stream finishing in 11th place!
As the races go on, I started getting better and better and ended up adding 200 points to my VR. I was pretty happy about that.
I’m starting to gain a good number of regular viewers and they’re always entertaining to chat with. I really do hope that continues because it really makes broadcasting way more fun.
I also got to play with one of my viewers who was very knowledgeable in Mario Kart and played a few races including 200cc. It was mind boggling fast!
Here are some highlights of the evening:
Streaming Tech
I had the stream go completely offline. I pretty sure it was a fluke and it may be because of XSplit’s new updates. Other than that, things went smoothly
Streaming Stats
Total Follows: 42
Total Views: 502
Stream Time: 2 Hours 26 Minutes
Streaming Quality: 540p @ 48FPS – 2000kbps Bitrate (Fast encoding)