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Twitch: An Experimental Night of Premieres

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So last night, The Land of Odd officially made its debut on Twitch.tv as I’m sure those who follow me on Twitter saw me throwing up messages left and right about.  The whole thing was quite the learning experience for a first attempt not only on the platform but also trying out Twitch’s new video producer tools which were introduced only a week ago.

Somethings I learned?

Well, the ‘Countdown’ feature begins to play at the scheduled time and not leading up it, as in a 5 minute countdown would start at 7pm and not 6:55pm, thus your video would start at 7:05. So the ones I set up to fill the gap between the videos streaming were actually throwing things further and further off schedule.  The Countdowns are also a permanent fixture of your uploaded video after your premiere so now I’ve got a few videos with countdowns that are almost as long as the content itself, artificially inflating the length of them.

Also I learned that there’s no easy way to line up multiple videos back to back.  They all have to scheduled to 30 minute increments and can’t overlap.  So if you are like me and uploaded several (ten in my case) videos to premiere in one night, there’s going to be a lot of “Offline” screens between them – which may hurt viewership.

Moving forward, the Twitch approach to many of these videos are going to be radically different from my YouTube approach. Longer videos of 30-60 minutes will probably be more common simply because the Twitch platform is built on streaming and that tends to be a longer format than simple clickable digestible bits on YouTube.  The videos will be broken up when put on YouTube though in their normal 10-20 minute chunks.

Also, when bringing old videos over to premiere I will be re-editing them into longer format videos by cropping out the starts and ends and putting them back to back.  That way there will be no ‘Offline’ moments and from 7pm there will just be a single continuous video.

That being said, I would also like to direct your attention to the sidebar here on the website where we have added the schedule for the Twitch channel.  We will be airing videos on the second and fourth wednesday of every month at 7pm.  There’s a list of what we will be premiering with brand new content to the site being marked as such (at least until we finishing the entire backlog).

I welcome you to come and enjoy the premieres.  I’ll often be there watching them too, so if you chime in on chat I will likely be around to respond, otherwise it looks like the chat gets recorded for later viewings (and you can leave chat messages at any timecode point in the already premiered videos).  You can follow me on there as well and I always appreciate people who do or those who spread the word.  I’m not a partner, nor is this in anyway my living, just a fun thing to do with my spare time (where I normally talk and joke at the games I play anyway.)  But I’d be interested to see if this actually gains any momentum.

Thank you all, and welcome to a bold new 2018 for the Land of Odd.

Update: Vry Versus Video Games

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B1FyMMnCcAA0AXvSo despite a fairly warm reception, some may have noticed that I haven’t uploaded any new lets plays.  And while some of that has to do with the holidays and other real world things, mostly it’s just my own stupidity.  There have been many recording sessions in the past few months, with absolutely nothing to show for it.  Either because of technical problems or my own incompetence I end up with an hour or two of recorded audio but no video.  Other times I’ve had games continually crashing on me at random times.  So it’s not that I haven’t been working on them, and more that the work has been problematic at best.

That being said, I still want to keep recording and putting up more Let’s Play Vry Versus Video Games videos on YouTube.  In fact I’ve recently just finished another near 2 hour session that is sitting on my hard drive awaiting editing.  I really just wanted to give those of you who were enjoying my silly exploits a heads up that it is not an abandoned project by any means and it’s just been a series of mishaps that have delayed it this much.

For those who aren’t sure what I’m actually talking about, I’ve been recording, editing and uploading Let’s Plays of various games under the title of Vry Versus Video Games on YouTube (You can find my channel here.)  I’ve currently been working on 3 different series, changing things up every now and then to keep it fresh for at least me if not you folks as well:

– Shadowrun Returns: Where you get a taste of my strange range of silly voices as I read the dialogue for the characters and play through the game for the first time.

– BioShock: One of my favorite games.  I’ve started doing kind of just a wacky commentary that has devolved into a weird metaphorical revolution as the ‘Luigis’ (Green light wearing hacked machines) are rising up against the ‘Marios’ (Unhacked hostile machines).  A viewer poll decided to NOT kill the little sisters, so we’ve been saving the creepy little girls.

– The Sims 4: Shakespeare Monkey Challenge: The newest series currently being edited takes the concept of ‘putting monkeys in a room with a typewriter will produce Shakespeare’ to a new level.  We shove 8 sims (7 of which are based on famous authors) in a house and force them to write in an attempt to make money.  The original goal was 1 million simoleans in 1 year, but considering how time moves in the Sims world, we might be altering that goal and trimming it back to avoid having several hundred videos.

Anyway, I just wanted to offer an explanation on the status of these projects and to introduce the videos to new readers (thank you for visiting by the way! Always nice to have new folks stop in.)  Hopefully, the drought will be lifted soon.