Twitch streams

[djpooppants]

I'm currently browsing twitch streams, but not finding anything terribly interesting. Any recommendations?

[tegan]

http://www.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/ (we need more Idle Thumbs streams!)

 

http://www.twitch.tv/chrisremo (Chris plays Spelunky every day, then abruptly stops)

 

http://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon (I can't believe this is still going)

 

http://www.twitch.tv/speeddemosarchivesda (home of Awesome Games Done Quick and Summer Games Done Quick)

 

http://www.twitch.tv/patriciaxhx (the Feminist Cabal; mentioned briefly by Danielle a few episodes ago on Idle Thumbs)

[JonCole]

If you find Dota 2 at all interesting, there is a games industry tournament currently going on at -

 

http://www.twitch.tv/rektreational

 

Schedule is here (times are Pacific US) -

 

http://rektreational.tumblr.com/

[Latrine]

Most of the time there isn't anything particularly interesting on Twitch unless you want to see high level play in a particular game and these days the most popular games are League, Hearthstone, and Dota. You may get slightly better produced content from Youtubers doing live streaming but those are less frequent and you'd probably only tune in if you're familiar with that streamer and already like their edited videos. I basically tune in to popular Twitch streams as light entertainment when I don't want to commit to playing or watching something. 

[Badfinger]

I'm currently browsing twitch streams, but not finding anything terribly interesting. Any recommendations?

 

What do you want to watch? Most of my recommendations either to watch or stay away from would be based on what you're interested in viewing.

 

http://www.twitch.tv/bikeman

http://www.twitch.tv/northernlion

 

Bikeman and NorthernLion are about the only streamers I follow that aren't game-specific streamers. Bikeman is funny and Northernlion is a really good spelunky player that does a super show thing where they play all kinds of stuff.

[JonCole]

Ah yeah, +1 to NL. He also archives all of his supershows and let's plays on YouTube under the same name.

[nille]

http://twitch.com/slackaholicus -- Laid-back community, lot's of Isaac, RPGs, classic and Indie stuff. Generally not a screamer.

[prawks]

http://twitch.com/slackaholicus -- Laid-back community, lot's of Isaac, RPGs, classic and Indie stuff. Generally not a screamer.

Think you mean http://www.twitch.tv/slackaholicus. I was very confused.

[Golden Calf]

I always enjoy the streams of Jonathan Blow and Jeff Green, though they only stream sporadically.

 

It's tough to find streamers that don't seem to be rejected characters from Drake and Josh.

 

Charlie Winsmore is generally pretty funny.

[TangoCharlie]

+1 to Jeff Green's Dark Souls streams. If you don't know Jeff, he's genuinely charming. His seeming lack of spacial awareness can be frustrating.

 

He turned me on to "Kay Plays," and she's fantastic. Here are her Let's Plays, organized into playlists. She's methodical, calm, and detail-oriented. I enjoyed watching her Dark Souls streams more than I would have enjoyed playing those games.

 

If anyone has any other Twitch/YouTube recommendations, I'd love to hear 'em. Turn-offs include excessive profanity, brohaviour, and hideous, cluttered overlays.

[TangoCharlie]

If you don't know Jeff, he's genuinely charming.

 

I mean, if you're not familiar with him, you should know that he is, not that he's only charming if you don't know him.

[Smart Jason]

She doesn't stream that much, but seeing as how this topic happens to be on top right now, Anita Sarkeesian has a channel on which she and Carolyn Petit are currently playing Gone Home.

 

JP LeBreton's channel should also be mentioned, certainly.

[Architecture]

I'm gonna give this streaming thing a shot. I'll be playin' Half-Life 2.

 

If you drop by, let me know if I'm having issues with my audio--it seems to be looping.

 

http://www.twitch.tv/architekture

[Architecture]

Goin' live again with some more Half-Life 2. Starting around Route Kanal, probably will play until at least the Highway section.

[Architecture]

Here we go again! Picking up right after Ravenholm.

 

http://www.twitch.tv/architekture

[rohlfinator]

http://www.twitch.tv/streamfriends

 

Haven't caught a lot of their streams live, but I've enjoyed what I've seen of Stream Friends. It's usually a pretty chill stream, and conversations range anywhere from goofy nonsense to serious games crit, which is something I don't see a lot of on Twitch.

[jennegatron]

Stream Friends is delightful. I also watch Day9tv but only on Monday nights @ 7pm PST when they do Mostly Walking. 3 friends from graduate school (they went to USC) get together and play an adventure game of some kind every week & talk about it.  They do full playthroughs over the course of weeks & the recordings go up on Day9's youtube channel. The backlog is very worth watching, as is the old MetaDating show they did on Geek & Sundry where they talk about Romance/Dating and how it's portrayed/incorporated with game mechanics in games.

[ratamero]

VGCW (http://www.twitch.tv/bazza87) is the kind of thing that I can feel myself becoming more stupid when I watch, but it's SO MUCH FUN

[Zeusthecat]

Here we go again! Picking up right after Ravenholm.

 

http://www.twitch.tv/architekture

 

I haven't managed to catch one of these yet but I followed you so hopefully I catch the notification while you're still streaming next time.

[Architecture]

I got an email notification about, thanks for following. I'll definitely bump this thread the next time I'm playing. I just finished up Nova Prospekt, so I'm coming down to the wire...but hell, I might play the two episodes as well. A friend on another board is trying to get a few of us streaming semi-regularly, so I'll definitely keep up with it.

 

I was tempted to go buy some green fabric and build my own chroma key background, as OBS can key out the BG on the fly.

[sclpls]

Nice! I just did a replay of Half Life 2 as well, and that is one of those games that is always fantastic to revisit every year or so.

 

I'm sure I'll replay the episodes at some point as well although its hard for me not to be tempted to just jump into episode 2 since that has my favorite moments of Half Life.

[clyde]

Last night David Grenzowski @david_is_neato was streaming work in the Unity editor while doing some creative djing. It was 3/4 silent tutorial and 1/4 performance art. Grenzowski seems to have built up a toolset of scenes and scripts that he can pull into the editor to when it will complement a song or vice-versa.  It was really interesting seeing the Unity editor used in this way. Creating environments from primitives, particle-systems and lights can have a similar feel as that sand-painting projection thing, or just watching someone paint. But when Grenzowski starts using the dollar-sign for a particle-sprite and searching through their audio library for the best "money. money, money" sample in their collection, and when there is no intention to actually use this is a resulting game, I feel like I'm watching expression.

[Badfinger]

As weird as it sounds, not having a camera keeps me from streaming sometimes. The backdrop is awful, and often times I'm sharing the room. Plus I don't have two monitors (space issue), so I can't have chat and a game open at the same time. I dunno maybe I'll move soon and this will be easier!

[undermind9]

Danielle & Patricia were/are streaming tonight.  Seemingly started drunk.  Thank you for the evening of entertainment

[Zeusthecat]

I'm gonna stream some Secret of Monkey Island for the next hour or two if anyone's interested. My channel's in my signature.