Livecasting on twitch.tv

[Crayfish]

EDIT Ze_PilOt has got on the case right away and created an official channel:
http://www.twitch.tv/forgedallianceforever
Send him a PM with your email if you want to cast on it !
Different community members can log in at different times to keep a steady source of programming and not divide viewing figures. Hopefully also the different casters could come together on Teamspeak, Skype or whatever for bigger events.


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Original Post*

Right now, twitch tv is incredibly popular and is dominated by RTS games, Star Craft 2, Hereos of Newerth, League of Legends, DOTA 2. Many individual channels have upto 5000 viewers at any one time, and some of the big events can have upto 70,000 viewers. Take a look at the live channel front page at any time and its guarenteed that RTS games take about 80% of the slots:
http://www.twitch.tv/directory/all

There are some fantastic community casters on youtube who are really helping to promote FAF like:
http://www.youtube.com/user/felixlighta/videos
http://www.youtube.com/user/praisegugleourmaster
http://www.youtube.com/user/jacksparrow20111/videos
As well as people who started streaming on twitch.tv, but have not broadcasted since last year like:
http://www.twitch.tv/gowerly
http://www.twitch.tv/zockyzock
http://www.twitch.tv/ascendantphoenixcup
http://www.twitch.tv/fafuncast

Right now, it would be great to see somekind of joint community cast for FAF and its major tournies / ladder matches on twitch.tv. The community has the broadcasting tallent, and now these sites give us the HD streaming technology. Supcom has always really required atleast 720p streaming (even if you are watching in a lower res) becuase you just dont get the required clarity when zoomed out to follow the action (its another of the things that gave the much smaller scale Star Craft II a headstart).
Now that FAF is often getting over 350 users, now would be a great time for a community cast for people to get behind. Its possible to get onto the live channel front page with as few as 50 to 200 viewers depending on the time of day and that would be great exposure for FAF. Whatismore, it would be preaching to the RTS converted who are already there to watch SC and other games, and probably a fair few lapsed Supcom players who aren't aware of FAF's revival of the game.

[Raging_Squirrel]

Hmmm that's an idea!
I'm going to try livecasting my own play whole sunday, if someone cares to watch it

edit: I think I can do it tomorrow evening as well if I get some votes

[Ze_PilOt]

What we "need" is a single cast channel with several casters on it.
We are not big enough to have several channels.

[Crayfish]

If an official FAF twitch channel was set up, different players could log in at different times to keep a steady source of programming and not divide viewing figures (thats how Shoryuken.com run thier fighting game stream using community members). Also, the different casters could come together on Teamspeak, Skype or whatever for bigger events.

[Ze_PilOt]

I've set up an account, give me a PM with your email if you want to cast on it !
http://www.twitch.tv/forgedallianceforever

[Crayfish]

I've set up an account, give me a PM with your email if you want to cast on it !
http://www.twitch.tv/forgedallianceforever

Awsome! There u go Squirrel, u can start right away!

[Gyle]

Dang i'd love to get involved but prime time is probably out for me so my only real time would be Daytime GMT Mondays through Thursdays.

[Crayfish]

Dang i'd love to get involved but prime time is probably out for me so my only real time would be Daytime GMT Mondays through Thursdays.

Really hope you can cast Gyle, its cool also that you can use the cast videos later on your fantastic Youtube channel. One will benefit the other, and it all benefits FAF.

[Ze_PilOt]

By the way, there is an announce on the twitter account when someone is going live :
https://twitter.com/#!/Ze_PilOt
(there is also an announce for every facebook post, every commit to the code,...).

[Crayfish]

Pilot btw, you can also list your channel by what game it is playing, and they have forged alliance in thier listing. Notice below the title on Gowerly's channel:
http://www.twitch.tv/gowerly

This will help people find the channel who specifically search for Supreme Commander / Forged Alliance, and the channel will also show up when people visit the 'browse by game' page:
http://www.twitch.tv/directory