Good news. My new machine has the muscle to record and stream video. Fun. ^_^



Here's two commander games. Not exactly drowning in viewers, I suppose, but commentating on games like this is a good exercise even if nobody's watching.

FTL: Faster Than Light

I heard about this game on reddit the night before it was released. It was one of the earliest games to get funded through Kickstarter, or so I'm told. FTL is a space game. Basically, it's a roguelike-esque game where you play as Star Trek. I watched the gameplay video and I decided right there and then that I was gonna buy this game. So the next morning I mashed F5 on the developer's website until I could buy it. Then I bought it. Then I installed it and played it for about eleven hours. Yay!

I even did a video stream of the gameplay that nobody watched.

So anyway, I'm happy with this purchase. Uh...hmm...yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty sweet. I might be slightly in a sleep-deprived space-exploration trance right now.

Blargh why is this stream thing not working

I did a couple videos a little while back of The Binding of Isaac and they sort of worked out okay, in that they, like, existed, and I could, like, upload them to YouTube. (Not in the sense that, like, anyone watched them, ever.) But this isn't something I can keep doing because it takes a lot of space on my hard drive and it takes forever to upload the damn things.

Apparently though, if I stream a video to twitch.tv instead of pre-recording it, they'll automatically save it on their site, which is a lovely convenience. So I tried doing that instead and...uh...


 

Well, as you may have noticed, I somehow managed to split it into forty-five separate video clips of less than a minute each, all with choppy audio, making the whole thing generally unwatchable. Oh, and of course, since it was linked to my Twitter account, anyone following me got spammed with forty-five tweets, once for every time it stopped and started again. AWKWARD.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong here but it seems to be slightly not working.

I tried again today with something simpler and shorter (Dino Run SE) to see if I could get it working. It was a little better, in that it was only split into two videos, and the audio was fine as long as I wasn't actually playing an actual game. So...making progress? I guess?

For the record, I don't feel strongly about Dino Run. It seems...cute. I dunno.

Let's Play The Binding of Isaac

Here's another video. Something's wrong with the audio-video syncing or something. I dunno.

Let's Play The Binding of Isaac

Aha, now it's working.



Django suggested that I do a video like this, so I roped him into commentating on it.

 

Oh man, I had this video entry that I was going to post, but I can't seem to upload it. Dunno what's wrong, it just says the file was rejected or something. That's too bad. Maybe I can get it on Youtube or something and try again later. 

I don't really know what I'm doing with this video stuff.