It was a bit too warm for me to work on much today, aside from work, work anyway. So I relaxed with some of my fave aesthetics; The eyecandy of Aragami while eating some Pocky and drinking some cherry blossom tea. I’ve been playing it in between Steam Deck and Desktop, and so far I’m the furthest I’ve ever been! I have a couple other pix on Masto.
Surprisingly I didn’t spend that much time gaming over the weekend, other than using games to test recording settings. Nope. It’s actually been a pretty creative weekend! I’m beginning production on a future video! Nothing too exciting other than an ending, the video itself will be purely gameplay… plus I went through the Tetris footage, and it’s giving me all kinds of crazy ideas. After making several gameplay videos it would be nice to get back into animating something again.
Other than that I’ve been fondling my new GoPro. 🙂 I have an accessory coming in the mail to allow me to stream it to my desktop in pure 4K! Also planning to adapt a couple of my other cameras for potential livestream ideas. Mwahahahahha!
2023 has proven to be a good year for getting through my ever expanding game library. Thanks to my Steam Deck I’ve been able to consistently pick up on games I’m trying to finish when I can’t be at a more stationary computer. It feels so strange… The future video for it could be fun. 🙂
So when going through the ol’ library tonight I also made sure to include games that have Remote Play enabled, and Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 looked like a good thing to try over Remote Play. I played on keyboard and mouse, and Yutram played on Controller. We had a fun time trying all kinds of different modes, and proved we can both survive a little friendly competition… as long as we don’t add the CPU’s, fuck the CPU’s. We did a good job of murdering each other at competitive Tetris.
It worked so well that we might have to make this a thing again soon!
I wanted to do a test stream tonight, but ended up experimenting with OBS instead. They added a new feature that allows you to take audio from individual programs. For Example: If you want to separate your game audio from your VOIP program. Sadly, when combined with the rest of my setup it just kills the video quality! Like, murders it. Oh well, it is in the beta stage still. Hopefully they can improve on it! Until then, Voicemeeter is an excellent workaround for separating audio tracks.
I’ll run some more tests tomorrow… sometime after getting some shut-eye.
Open Thread!
It’s been a nice, calm evening… which is nice after a long, hectic day. I relaxed by going through some video footage, and found something to finally animate! It’s only in the ideas phase, but it will be a small ending to a Temple of Light video. We finished the game! So we need to end on some kind of note! 😛
Played around in OBS a bit more. I think I’m ready to some livestreaming! The question is time, aaaaaalways fucking time. Maybe with a newer selection of scenes I can encourage myself to get my shit together and think of something to stream. Decisions, decisions…
Finished a small quest tonight in HZD! Collected 4 Boar Skins and a Ring for a quest. Next time I play I’m poised to take down a couple Sawtooths. Most of my evening was spent configuring OBS to do a few things, building a couple a scenes and experimenting with some plugins – nerdy fun! I’ll probably work on a couple more scenes tomorrow – it makes for a good small break from all the video editing I’ve been doing.
Open Thread!
Made it to the third universe in Bloo Kid 2! It’s surprisingly challenging in some areas and will need another playthrough to get all the secrets. I also got it running on my Steam Deck, though I had to map it to keyboard controls for anything to play properly. I remember it always being a problem with controllers, though. Other than that it was nice to play on a small screen, another title to make my Steam Deck feel like a large Game Boy.
I made it three levels into Zombieland. I have to admit that the skull flowers are a nice touch to the atmosphere, good mood to end the evening on. I’ve made enough progress that I can take another break from it. 😛
It’s been a productive weekend! Thanks to Shotcut I’ve been getting my video releases in order, lots of gameplay footage to release between now and November! Made a few thumbnails for said videos in Krita, and I’ve even been upping my OBS game for future vids!
Installed a few plugins to try, there was one I even noticed that’s bundled with the current OBS that allows you to capture individual audio streams from different programs. Handy if you want to have your game audio and voice chat audio on separate tracks! Another plugin I found on the OBS Forums makes green screening a hell of a lot easier, and I even downloaded a status bar to mess with. I’ll need to rebuild a few scenes before I consider streaming again, but one of these weekends I’d like to make it happen!
I ran some tests with AMID EVIL last night, they released the new Black Labrynth Campaign. I figured it would be perfect for my testing needs. Didn’t overload the encoder once, and no lag whatsoever on audio or graphics. Thanks to the new audio plugin I now use 5 different audio channels for one game recording, and they consist of:
All of it done without the need of third party programs like voicemeeter! That means I can do this under both Windows AND Linux! Now if Creative would fucking support their sound cards under Linux I’d spend 99% of my time there on Desktop!