Here is an amazing drawing did by Exh0rder, a regular in the community. In this picture he drew every regular who was willing to give him a photo of themselves.
I regret doing it already...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Vinesauce Casting Call
Here is an amazing drawing did by Exh0rder, a regular in the community. In this picture he drew every regular who was willing to give him a photo of themselves.
I regret doing it already...
Thursday, August 5, 2010
T-Shirts and More
What's that? Did someone say T-Shirts? No? Actually, no one even mentioned T-Shirts, but I went ahead and made us a cafepress store anyway. We have a bunch of designs already there with more to come. If this gets popular, I'll register for a paid account. That adds more items and design options to the store. For now, check out the designs and see what you like. If there's any vine related design you want me to add to the store, give me a heads up and I'll add it.
http://www.cafepress.com/VinesauceVidya
By the way, 10% of all sales go straight to me, so that means more money for contests to give this stuff away. Speaking of contests, we'll have a new one for you guys real soon. One that doesn't involve art this time.
NOTE: For the mushroom and Vinesworth designs we may soon have a cheaper alternative, just as high quality, AND more of the money will go straight to Vinesauce. So if you are considering buying a shirt of either of those designs, you may want to consider waiting a little bit. Contact KY for details.
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As you guys know, we're buddies with GPM from DatStream. As you may also know, livestream hasn't been very kind to him these days. For whatever reason, his stream was locked twice. To make it up the the viewers, he's holding a special event where he and his streamers play nothing but classic games for a week. The thing is, instead of emulating the games, he's actually gonna buy them and stream through his capture card. I absolutely love this idea, and wish him the best of luck.
He's had a shitty past few weeks, a few donations will cheer him up. Want more info?
http://datstream.net/nostalgia/
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In other news, I still haven't declared a winner for the Vinecraft banner contest. A combination of busyness and laziness is the reason. Don't worry though, it'll happen soon. Also, be sure to check the FAQ page for an updated list of streamers. Until next time!
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Mascot Contest Winners
As usual, I'm a bit late, but here are the winners of the mascot contest. We didn't get a whole lot of entries, so I'm just gonna post all the legitimate ones (ie: no Larry) so everyone can see how much hard work you guys put into this. Let's start off with our winners. Click on the images to see them in their full size.
1st Place: KylieTheDorf
2nd Place: Exhorder
3rd Place: Shadow
Congrats to Kylie for making an epic mascot! It was a close call, especially between Exhorder and Kylie, but almost all of the entries got some votes. Also, as a first for vinesauce vidya, the chat voted along with the mods this time, which worked out really well. Here are the other entries:
Pandanyo
Slowbro
Regigigity
Unknown
I even made a few just for the hell of it:
Vinecraft Banner Contest
Guys, there's only one day left until your Vinecraft banners are due. If I'm not online to accept your entries, send them to either GlueGuy or Adventure. Here are the rules one more time:
- Image size must be 1,220 x 203.
- Again, no dicks or racism.
- Can be something constructed in Minecraft and made into a banner.
- Must say Vinecraft somewhere. You can also hide your name somewhere, but it should be smaller than the Vinecraft text.
- Due date is Thursday, July 29th.
- Winners will be voted on by the mods of Vinesauce Vidya.
- All legit entries will be rotated randomly as the Vinecraft banner.
- First Prize is any Steam game of your choice under $10 + 1 month donation status on Chatango. Will become the main banner of Vinecraft for 5 days.
- Second Prize is 1 month donation status on Chatango. Chat fish spam, FUCK YEAR! Will become the main banner of Vinecraft for 3 days.
- Third Prize is nothing! Again! Will become the main banner of Vinecraft for 2 days.
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Anything creative, whether it be an in-game screenshot or something in photoshop, is perfect for our contest. As a bit of motivation to enter in the contest, I made a banner to show you guys an example of what we're looking for.
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In other Vinecraft news, we removed a few inactive streamers and got a few new ones. I really hate removing streamers, but if you haven't logged in to the studio in 2 weeks or so, you make it really hard for me to justify your position. More on that in the FAQ another time. Everyone be sure to say congrats to our new Vinecraft streamers!
NeroLucien
McDaddyJesus
Magicschismo
On a final note, thanks again to all who donated! Check the donation page for my personal thanks to all of you. As I always say, the viewers are the only thing keeping us going. Thanks for being bros, all of you.
1st Place: KylieTheDorf
2nd Place: Exhorder
3rd Place: Shadow
Congrats to Kylie for making an epic mascot! It was a close call, especially between Exhorder and Kylie, but almost all of the entries got some votes. Also, as a first for vinesauce vidya, the chat voted along with the mods this time, which worked out really well. Here are the other entries:
Pandanyo
Slowbro
Regigigity
Unknown
I even made a few just for the hell of it:
Vinecraft Banner Contest
Guys, there's only one day left until your Vinecraft banners are due. If I'm not online to accept your entries, send them to either GlueGuy or Adventure. Here are the rules one more time:
- Image size must be 1,220 x 203.
- Again, no dicks or racism.
- Can be something constructed in Minecraft and made into a banner.
- Must say Vinecraft somewhere. You can also hide your name somewhere, but it should be smaller than the Vinecraft text.
- Due date is Thursday, July 29th.
- Winners will be voted on by the mods of Vinesauce Vidya.
- All legit entries will be rotated randomly as the Vinecraft banner.
- First Prize is any Steam game of your choice under $10 + 1 month donation status on Chatango. Will become the main banner of Vinecraft for 5 days.
- Second Prize is 1 month donation status on Chatango. Chat fish spam, FUCK YEAR! Will become the main banner of Vinecraft for 3 days.
- Third Prize is nothing! Again! Will become the main banner of Vinecraft for 2 days.
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Anything creative, whether it be an in-game screenshot or something in photoshop, is perfect for our contest. As a bit of motivation to enter in the contest, I made a banner to show you guys an example of what we're looking for.
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In other Vinecraft news, we removed a few inactive streamers and got a few new ones. I really hate removing streamers, but if you haven't logged in to the studio in 2 weeks or so, you make it really hard for me to justify your position. More on that in the FAQ another time. Everyone be sure to say congrats to our new Vinecraft streamers!
NeroLucien
McDaddyJesus
Magicschismo
On a final note, thanks again to all who donated! Check the donation page for my personal thanks to all of you. As I always say, the viewers are the only thing keeping us going. Thanks for being bros, all of you.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
NOPE.AVI
In the aftermath of some technical difficulties, it appears that our entire autopilot and on-demand library has mysterously vanished. But do not fear, citizens of Vinesauce! We are not going anywhere. Where are we going? NOWHERE. That's right, do not let this "offline" business fool you. Raise your fist and resist. Nothing can keep Vinesauce down, not even losing our library of hilarious and entertaining videos.There will be some healthy new autopilot uploaded soon enough, if we cannot recover the lost videos. On a positive note, congratulations Fzuul for earning streamer status. You rock!
More to come. Get on those banner and mascot entries, will ya?
VINESAUCE PREVAILS---
UPDATE
Autopilot is in the process of being revitalized. Victory nearly is upon us. Rejoice, dear viewers!
Embrace the Vinesauce autopilot master race!
GOD BLESS THE VINE
Embrace the Vinesauce autopilot master race!
GOD BLESS THE VINE
Monday, July 19, 2010
Two Contests, Real Prizes!
It's contest time again, but this time, there are some legit prizes involved. This is for artfags, so if you are a drawing wizard, you should enter. Even if you can't draw, try anyway for the lulz. Here are the rules:
Uncle Vine Contest
This contest is for the best vinesauce mascot. My idea was a suit and tie with a vine growing from the collar in the style of Earthworm Jim. That's just a starting point, you guys can take it any way you want. Bonus points for creativity. Rules:
- Can be any image size.
- The winner(s) pictures will be scattered throughout the site, blog, in threads, etc.
- Consists of the best drawing of what Uncle Vine would look like, or any other suitable mascot.
- Can be in the form of a banner.
- Due date is Sunday, July 25th.
- Winners will be voted on by the mods of Vinesauce Vidya.
- First Prize is any Steam game of your choice under $5 + 1 month donation status on Chatango.
- Second Prize is 1 month donation status on Chatango. Big eyefuck text, here we come!
- Third Prize is nothing!
Vinecraft Banner Contest
We need more banners for Vinecraft. I tried making one with a cartoon creeper and pig making sweet love, but Gimp crashed on me and it was lost forever... Anyway, like the main site, we're doing a competition for the best banners. At the end of the contest, all entries will be rotated randomly. Rules:
- Image size must be 1,220 x 203.
- Again, no dicks or racism.
- Can be something constructed in Minecraft and made into a banner.
- Must say Vinecraft somewhere. You can also hide your name somewhere, but it should be smaller than the Vinecraft text.
- Due date is Thursday, July 29th.
- Winners will be voted on by the mods of Vinesauce Vidya.
- First Prize is any Steam game of your choice under $10 + 1 month donation status on Chatango. Will become the main banner of Vinecraft for 5 days.
- Second Prize is 1 month donation status on Chatango. Chat fish spam, FUCK YEAR! Will become the main banner of Vinecraft for 3 days.
- Third Prize is nothing! Again! Will become the main banner of Vinecraft for 2 days.
As always, any banner you submit for the main site will be added to the random rotation. Feels good man.
Just to clear the air about something people have been asking about, our mod Nuke hasn't been banned, far from it. He wanted to start up his own stream again, so we left him a streamer at Vinecraft, but did indeed remove him from the main stream. He is a bro and I really appreciate the time he spent with us on the site.
Visit him at Nukes Bomb Shelter and check out his streams!
That's it for now. Any questions about the contest, just ask.
Uncle Vine Contest
This contest is for the best vinesauce mascot. My idea was a suit and tie with a vine growing from the collar in the style of Earthworm Jim. That's just a starting point, you guys can take it any way you want. Bonus points for creativity. Rules:
- Can be any image size.
- The winner(s) pictures will be scattered throughout the site, blog, in threads, etc.
- Consists of the best drawing of what Uncle Vine would look like, or any other suitable mascot.
- Can be in the form of a banner.
- Due date is Sunday, July 25th.
- Winners will be voted on by the mods of Vinesauce Vidya.
- First Prize is any Steam game of your choice under $5 + 1 month donation status on Chatango.
- Second Prize is 1 month donation status on Chatango. Big eyefuck text, here we come!
- Third Prize is nothing!
Vinecraft Banner Contest
We need more banners for Vinecraft. I tried making one with a cartoon creeper and pig making sweet love, but Gimp crashed on me and it was lost forever... Anyway, like the main site, we're doing a competition for the best banners. At the end of the contest, all entries will be rotated randomly. Rules:
- Image size must be 1,220 x 203.
- Again, no dicks or racism.
- Can be something constructed in Minecraft and made into a banner.
- Must say Vinecraft somewhere. You can also hide your name somewhere, but it should be smaller than the Vinecraft text.
- Due date is Thursday, July 29th.
- Winners will be voted on by the mods of Vinesauce Vidya.
- First Prize is any Steam game of your choice under $10 + 1 month donation status on Chatango. Will become the main banner of Vinecraft for 5 days.
- Second Prize is 1 month donation status on Chatango. Chat fish spam, FUCK YEAR! Will become the main banner of Vinecraft for 3 days.
- Third Prize is nothing! Again! Will become the main banner of Vinecraft for 2 days.
As always, any banner you submit for the main site will be added to the random rotation. Feels good man.
Just to clear the air about something people have been asking about, our mod Nuke hasn't been banned, far from it. He wanted to start up his own stream again, so we left him a streamer at Vinecraft, but did indeed remove him from the main stream. He is a bro and I really appreciate the time he spent with us on the site.
Visit him at Nukes Bomb Shelter and check out his streams!
That's it for now. Any questions about the contest, just ask.
Friday, July 16, 2010
Around the Campfire
Last night we decided to try something a little different. Being a fan of Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell, I thought it would be a good idea to have a ghost story night. It was totally spur of the moment, but it actually turned out to be quite good. I must have spoken to at least 12 people who had some really odd paranormal experiences. The only regret I have is not being able to get to everyone; there are still quite a few stories left until. Perhaps, cool stories.
We may try this again from time to time, so keep checking the blog for a possible future occurrence of Around the Campfire with Uncle Vine.
A few new pages are now up and running. The first was the completed Vinecraft page, which has become a bit of a success. We're in the process of adding a few more streamers, so if you catch me online at the right time and want to stream, let me know. I'm extremely disorganized when it comes to recruiting streamers, but a voice chat on skype is my usual method.
The second is the FAQ page which details mostly everything you need to know about the site. It also has a handy list of streamers.
The last is the Donation page, which is pretty self explanatory. If you do decided to donate, you get added to a list of demi-gods and help pay for the site. Feels good man.
We have some more interesting things to try out in the near future. A few contests loom on the horizon. One for Vinecraft banners and one for a Vinesauce mascot. I'll draw a prototype soon, but basically a guy in a suit and tie with a vine head. Think Earthworm Jim, but slightly more vegetable. Check the blog from time to time and we'll give you the heads up on all this noodly nonsense. Ramen.
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Ask not what your autopilot can do for you; ask what you can do for your autopilot
Our Current Autopilot
The central idea behind the creation of the autopilot is that there could be a filler of utter randomness and humor that would be there when there aren't any people streaming in the stream. So far, that has worked out pretty well for Vinesauce but that is no reason to stop improving it. The next step in the quest for improvement is more user control. This control was originally planned to be 10-page survey that included voice authentication and credit card information for blackmail survey purposes. Sadly, What was decided against my better judgement was that most suggestions should go through the comment box.
Please put in the comment box of this post any ideas and suggestions that you feel could be done to improve the quality of the current autopilot. Also, if there are any funny or videos of different taste (Japanese, Mind Fuck, Ect...) that you have come upon in your travels, please link to them in the comment box. Your contributions, if added, will not be ignored and a golden statue will be made in your honor.
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Vinecraft and 1M Get
Minecraft, minecraft, minecraft. Most of us love it, but some hate it. We've noticed that a good 40% or more of our streaming lately has been Minecraft. While this isn't necessarily a bad thing, too much of any one game can get a bit lame. To fix this, Tame came up with the idea of Vinecraft, a separate branch of our site devoted to nothing but Minecraft.
Currently, you can click the Vinecraft link at the top of the page and it will take you to the plus4chan version of the site. We'll have a page similar to the main stream's very soon, but until then, you can either check that out, or the livestream version. Also, it can only hold up to 50 viewers for now, but when we get approved, it'll be unlimited.
What does this mean for vinesauce vidya? It'll be streaming every game except Minecraft. Vinecraft will also have it's own set of streamers and mods. Some will stream on both sites, others will be exclusive to one particular stream. We are currently looking for minecraft streamers, so if you have streaming/minecraft experience, let me or any of the mods know.
Over 1,000,000 viewer minutes.
You can see by visiting www.livestream.com/vinesaucevidya that we surpassed one million viewer minutes. That's a really huge accomplishment for us, and I'm still at a loss for words for how much of a success you guys have made us. Thanks again.
Here's our gift to you guys for being dedicated: http://vinesaucevidya.com/afs/
In other news, thanks to GPM for helping us move to our new web server. You may not know this, but he hosted vinesaucevidya on his server for a while just because he's a bro. If he stops by the chat, be sure to thank him and pelt him with tomato sauce.
Thanks Tame for this strikingly realistic portrait of how I feel when playing Petz Horsez 2.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Banner Contest Winners
We have winners! Obviously you know who won if you've been to vinesauce vidya recently, but you may not know who else won. The mods have spoken, here are the top 3.
Pandanyo - First Place
KylieTheDorf - Second Place
Ragu - Third Place
These rankings aren't entirely accurate. Pandanyo won 2 spots in the top three, but we wanted to be fair, so I spoke to him and he agreed to let some other bros get the top spots. To be fair to Pandanyo, though, here was his other entry, which we all loved.
Pandanyo
Thanks to everyone who participated, your entries were great. After the specified time goes by for the winners, we'll have code for a random banner to be displayed each time you reload the page. Everyone is winner.
On a slightly different note, we're about the reach 1 million viewer minutes! This is amazing considering how new our stream is. You guys have really made all of us feel good man. Every single viewer minute is appreciated, and when we do hit 1 million we're gonna have a party... perhaps a Mario Party?
In other news, fuck Petz Horsez 2.
Seriously though, thanks Exh0rder for being a true bro and gifting some awesome Stream games for the mods and I. Also, he and some of the chat also made some epic calls to the Preacher Man. Salty milk and coins. lulz.
Pandanyo - First Place
KylieTheDorf - Second Place
Ragu - Third Place
These rankings aren't entirely accurate. Pandanyo won 2 spots in the top three, but we wanted to be fair, so I spoke to him and he agreed to let some other bros get the top spots. To be fair to Pandanyo, though, here was his other entry, which we all loved.
Pandanyo
Thanks to everyone who participated, your entries were great. After the specified time goes by for the winners, we'll have code for a random banner to be displayed each time you reload the page. Everyone is winner.
On a slightly different note, we're about the reach 1 million viewer minutes! This is amazing considering how new our stream is. You guys have really made all of us feel good man. Every single viewer minute is appreciated, and when we do hit 1 million we're gonna have a party... perhaps a Mario Party?
In other news, fuck Petz Horsez 2.
Seriously though, thanks Exh0rder for being a true bro and gifting some awesome Stream games for the mods and I. Also, he and some of the chat also made some epic calls to the Preacher Man. Salty milk and coins. lulz.
