Hello sauce friends, today's entry will discuss a few things I've been meaning to get to but haven't due to being sick. Let's start with the Kong Off. Today Tame and I began the competition and after our first full hour, Tame has a slight lead. For those that don't know, we're playing DKC at the same time, trying to see who can finish first. Both of us Game Overed once and had to start from the beginning, but fear not, we'll actually be saving from now on! Also, thanks to Exhorder for making the excellent Kong Off promo image!
Next up, you may notice that the Streamer List on the FAQ looks a little different. It was outdated and as such I decided to fix it up. Some of the streamers are no longer listed. For example, PurpleSawdust contacted me and told me to remove him as a streamer given the fact that he can't stream often, if at all. I removed a few others as well.
Basically, if I removed you as a streamer without telling you, it means you stopped streaming without telling me. At some point, you can get your streamer status back, but I want to make sure our list is accurate, so for now, I'd say relax and come back in a few weeks to reapply for your position.
It's also come to my attention that people advertise their streams during autopilot. Honestly, trying to find a solution to this is the most difficult part of being a stream owner. I relayed a personal story today about the early days of Vinesauce Vidya. When I first started up, the stream I was going to was more or less dead. The autopilot was deleted and there were barely any streams, yet 30 - 40 people stayed around and chatted, complaining about the lack of entertainment. I decided to link to my stream, which now had a full autopilot and myself streaming constantly. I was banned immediately for advertising my stream. As I gained my first few loyal viewers and streamers through persistence, I decided to try an underhanded move and advertise in other, larger streams. I was banned immediately.
My point is, it's heavily frowned upon to leech viewers from a stream, even if it's just autopilot that's playing. While I don't feel strongly enough to ban people about it, the fact of the matter is, if I wanted you to stream, I'd make you a streamer.
That leads me to another point. Say I'm planing on streaming GAME DICKS sometime in the future but haven't got to it yet. During some dead time a random dude from the chat boots up his stream, and links everyone to it. Say 30 people go to watch. Coincidentally, this guy is streaming GAME DICKS. Well, when I go to boot up GAME DICKS when I'm ready to play it, 30 of our viewers are bored because just a few weeks ago a member of the chat streamed GAME DICKS.
It's very tricky business.
While I'm on the topic of streamers, I know a lot of you want to stream for us. Every day I see at least 5 different people talking about how they'd like to stream a particular game, or movies at the movie page, or whatever.
I really hate disappointing people, but I can't do it. In my view, a stream packed with willing streamers can turn nasty. At the moment we have an almost perfect (notice I said almost) mix of streaming and autopilot. You see how disappointed streamers can get if they can barely get time to go live. Three or even two more streamers could make this even worse.
Also, I've heavily considered making a separate stream to let more people in on the action, but it doesn't work at all, and as the poor people over at Vinecraft are aware, I can't run more than one stream; I just don't have it in me.
I want to end with just a few things. You can see the little sidebar with the constant Twitter announcements. So far, they've been great and should give you reason to check the blog fairly often. Thanks Tame for keeping it updated.
We also now have a page for the SMBX campaign. Use it to collaborate with each other, post levels or even ask for help. I've been slacking a bit on the campaign, but I'm still serious about it. I'm very excited to see the finished product.
That's a lot of fucking typing I just did. Thank you all again for everything! Look forward to more contests and retardation in the near future.
(alcohol explodes with fire)
(alcohol explodes with fire)
