Category Archives: Livestream

Boar Animation Livestream Highlight


Watch live video from siegegames on TwitchTV

While Jasson livestreams his coding almost every day, Kelley occasionally does animation livestreams. Yesterday she drew and animated a yet-unnamed pig monster thing. Here’s a sample of what went on if you missed the livestream.

charge

To keep track of future livestreams, be sure to like our Facebook page, or subscribe to our Twitchtv channel.

The background music is the Dustforce OST by Lifeformed.

Lessons Learned from our Livestream

Well, we ran our first Livestream last Saturday for a whopping 14 hours, and it was an exhausting but rewarding experience. We didn’t get the turnout that we had hoped for, but we still had a very active chatroom with full of people curious about Crea.

Here’s what we learned about Livestreams yesterday:

  1. Nothing kills the buzz quicker than technical issues. We had difficulty switching between computers during the Livestream, as well as optimizing the video and audio quality without lag. Every time this happened, we lost viewers. Looking back, we probably should have done a more thorough practice run the day before.
  2. A fast computer helps a lot. Kelley’s computer, which is the newest of our computers, ran the Livestream beautifully. Jasson’s older computer, however, limped its way through the stream, causing the audio to jump.
  3. Kelley raises viewership. Every time we switched the stream to Kelley drawing artwork, the number of viewers jumped. Like magic. Like they just heard Kelley’s voice calling to them from across the internets.
  4. We need a new headset. Wearing it feels like your head is in a vice.
The character Kelley worked on yesterday is called an oil slime. It’s a low-level monster who drops oil for players to make tools with. As they watched the oil slime come to life, the audience grew fond of him. They named him Norman and decided that he was from Taiwan. (???) Here is the art Kelley made for an audience of averaging 30-40 people throughout the day:

Livestream is Live!

Livestream has begun!

Please drop by and say hello! Here’s the plan for today (8/4/2012). (All times listed are Pacific Time.)

9:30am – Start
10:00am – Monster Explanation
10:30am – Q & A – Part 1
5:00pm – Q & A – Part 2
9:00pm – end*

The graphics and animations you’ll be seeing in the development are in an ALPHA stage. Everything will be polished up in the final game.

1. REDDIT: We’re really trying to drive traffic from Reddit today. Please take a moment to upvote our Reddit page.

2. CONTEST: All day long we will be running a retweet contest. The person who gets the most retweets on our Livestream link by 9 pm will receive our $100-level Kickstarter reward.To participate, tweet using our URL ( http://www.twitch.tv/siegegames/ ) and mention @siegegames . We’ll count all these tweets at the end of the day and contact the winner through Twitter.

3. POLL: We are creating a Kickstarter exclusive in-game hat for our $25 and up backers and you can vote on which hat you’d like to see in Crea at our blog. (It is at the top on the right side panel)

4. CHALLENGE: We are going to set a few fundraising goals, and for each goal we meet we will give a little more to our backers. First we will make the exclusive Kickstarter item available for all backers. Our next goal would give our $25 and up backers get a digital copy of an art book for Crea. That is all the best of Kelley’s concept art, doodles and pixel art will be collected into a sweet little digital booklet. We have even more goals if we make these! Tune into the livestream for more details.

*A little secret from Kelley: although the livestream is scheduled to end at 9 PM, I’m pretty sure that Jasson will continue to program for as long as people are cheering him on, even if it means pulling an all-nighter. Let’s see how long we can keep him up tonight!