Last night 30minutemedia took to twitch for its premiere streaming event and it was a smashing success.
First and foremost I want to thank all of those who made the time to come and support the stream, everyone was such a big help!
Although the initial creation and setup of an account and getting the basics in place for Twitch was relatively easy, we did run into some technical difficulties in the first portion of the stream. We walked away with three major lessons for the next stream.
Lesson 1: When streaming over wifi make sure to tweak the stream quality settings before going live.
- The Xbox One Twitch app has three major settings and then one that allows it to automatically detect the quality, regardless of how crazy awesome of a set up you have I would recommend using that last option. During the stream comments were coming through stating that either the stream was super choppy(see pic below) or that the it was froze all together and that in turn lead to the viewer count becoming super choppy itself.
Lesson 2: Check all sound levels.
- I am a person who loves to blast the sweet sweet tunes of Sonic at the highest possible volume while playing… however when trying to make commentary over said music I was finding myself shouting in order to beat out those tunes. I would recommend turning down the volume of both the sound effects and music till you think its far too quiet and then give it another turn of the “knob” just a little more. Viewers found it hard to hear what was being said and I wasn’t aware of it until far too late, which leads me to my next lesson.
Lesson 3: Pay attention to chat.
- As a long time gamer it’s easy to get caught up in the action while gaming, trust me and if you don’t just ask the viewers from last night’s stream lol. I was getting alerts from the chat room letting me know about all of the issues that were happening with the stream and I was oblivious due to the fact that it all was going smoothly from my side of things. Do yourself and favor and have either a second screen dedicated to the chat or pull out your phone and keep that in eyesight. Most viewers don’t just want to watch you play a game but want to interact with you while you stream both for good things and bad things. They want to have just as good of a time as you are having, so give them a real shot at it by giving them a voice!!!
Bonus Lesson: Mute your second device.
- This one might seem a bit obvious to some but after doing your prestream checks make sure to mute the second device that you are watching the stream with otherwise you will get some serious feedback loops and the audio for the stream will be ruined pretty quickly. Luckily, we caught this one early on and saved the second portion of the stream.
With these lessons in mind, we look to continue to make improvements to the stream. Plans for a scheduled time to do streaming are in the works and 30minutemedia is always open to discussion about what games should be played and any improvements you think we could make to the stream a whole.
Let us know what game you think we should play next, leave a comment below!
As of right now it looks as if streaming could take place for an hour or two twice a week. The schedule will be posted here and on all social media outlets that we use. We will be looking to bounce around between all of the available streaming products out there now as well, at this moment we could stream on Youtube and Microsoft’s Mixer, it all depends on which becomes the best fit for our needs.
In case you missed the stream don’t frete! I will be posting the videos on Youtube within the next day or so and maybe some more surprise content to follow on that channel as well!
As always don’t forget to like and subscribe and follow us on social media at the links below:
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/30minutemedia
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/30minutemedia/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/30minute_media
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCby3qETTX_8vXkDu9X7Qovg
Happy Halloween!!!
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