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Date: June 7th
Start time: 8pm CT
Game: Animal Crossing: City Folk (Wii)

It’s Sunday, we’re well rested and ready to party, Animal Crossing style! In an effort of accommodating my global audience, I did my second round of an afternoon stream. My pals from the UK and Europe were able to watch the stream. Overall, there were just two good highlights. One is me trying to catch bees, and I’m very pro at it, trust me:

Twitch Highlight

The other highlight is the redemption of our first Revlo reward, Hot Pepper eaten on the live stream. Special thanks to Cozmic_Lights for her noble efforts:

Twitch Highlight

Overall, Animal Crossing is favorite of mine and a favorite for a whole bunch of other people. Glad to be able to share the joys that is Animal Crossing. Great Stream!

Stream Replay

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Streaming Tech

The stream was stable on all fronts. I was really happy for this. There was some minor skips here and there, but nothing major. I’m also starting to archive my live stream on YouTube. The hope is to offer people the ability to watch the stream if they miss it. I may need to adjust my microphone audio by 5ms for syncing purposes.

Streaming Stats

Total Follows: 112
Total Views: 765
Hot Peppers Consumed: 2
Stream Time: 5 Hours 52 Minutes
Streaming Quality: 540p @ 30FPS – 1555kbps Bitrate (Medium encoding)

Date: June 5th
Start time: 8pm CT
Game: Mario Kart 8 (Wii U)

Nothing more to say but this happened after 100 Followers:

Streaming Tech

Moved back to 540p following the bpp 0.1 method. The quality seems good, but not the best. I also found out that I should not be using the Dallas servers to stream, as a lot of people in my chat were complaining about the streaming being crappy.

Streaming Stats

Total Follows: 104
Total Views: 743
Stream Time: 3 Hours 35 Minutes
Streaming Quality: 540p @ 30FPS – 1555kbps Bitrate (Medium encoding)

Date: June 4th
Start time: 8pm CT
Game: Sunset Overdrive (Xbox One)

After a clumsy start, I was able to watch a few live streams playing Sunset Overdrive and learned a lot of what I was doing wrong.

This time around, things were more fluid and there was a lot more progression! There was a lot of fixation of me eating a pepper on the live stream. I need to figure a way to defuse that.

Streaming Tech

This is very much top of mind. I’ve done a lot of research around this topic and using the 0.1bpp formula to find the right ratio https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitch/comments/2dz7ru/bitrates_resolutions_and_quality

I’m going to try out 540p at 1555kbps @ 30fps tonight with Mario Kart 8, which is a fast motion game.

Streaming Stats

Total Follows: 96
Total Views: 726
Stream Time: 2 Hours 16 Minutes
Streaming Quality: 480p @ 60FPS – 1500kbps Bitrate (Medium encoding)

Date: June 3rd
Start time: 8pm CT
Game: Sunset Overdrive (Xbox One)

This game has been sitting on my shelf for a very long time. I bought the game on the basis of it being like Jet Set Radio and for it’s over the top attitude. Realizing how awful of a gamer I am, I decide to do it justice and start playing. This was the mindset I had going into the game:

The tutorial is pretty long but necessary, because the controls are different. I was pretty clumsy at first, but I had a better handle of the game midway through. I didn’t realize the amount of profanities there were in the game as well. Whoops! I’ll adjust for that.

Also, the channel was raided by IAmCorgii, so a special thanks goes out to him. Really cool guy!

Streaming Tech

After some consulting on Twitter, I downscaled the stream to 480p. A lot of people will say, 480p will just look awful. After some tinkering, I can confirm yes, there are some pixels here and there, but the quality is acceptable. On mobile, it looks really great and that was the whole purpose of the change. My mobile audience was having buffering issues with my stream, so I needed to find  a way to accommodate for them. I’m very happy with the initial result.

With the resolution going to 480p, I’m considering the idea of exporting not only highlights, but the full streams to YouTube. It’s a great way to archive the streams without the quality being too degraded. Looking into this more.

Streaming Stats

Total Follows: 94
Total Views: 713
Stream Time: 2 Hours 7 Minutes
Streaming Quality: 480p @ 60FPS – 1500kbps Bitrate (Medium encoding)

Date: June 1st
Start time: 8pm CT
Game: Super Mario 3D World (Wii U)

It’s already June! Where does the time go? We revisited the World that is Super Mario 3D. I have beaten the standard game and I made a commitment to Blahziter that I will continue to play until I claim every star. We started the night off with 186 Stars. For the most part, I was able to complete most of the stages, some were harder than others.

End the stream on 218. PROGRESS!

Streaming Tech

Revlo continues to be a hit with the chat. There were a few comments requesting for a cooldown. I’ve adjusted the betting minimum to 5 coins from 1 coin. We will see how that affects the rate of gambling. I’ve also limited the max bet to 500 coins.

I also adjusted the level of the gaming audio a little to loud. Reminder to self, 50% volume for Wii U games.

Streaming Stats

Total Follows: 87
Total Views: 700
Stream Time: 2 Hours 19 Minutes
Streaming Quality: 540p @ 48FPS – 2000kbps Bitrate (Medium encoding)