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15Mar 2022 by PatchT No Comments

Blankos Dev Stream, 11 Mar 2022.

As is usually the case in the Blankos Block Party universe, there's a lot going on!A few days ago some of the Mythical team streamed on Twitch to update the Blankos player base with news of a whole slew of upcoming changes, additions and improvements. I've already posted a blog trying to put together all of the information that was relayed with an objective eye here: https://peakd.com/blankos/@patchtuesday/blankos-dev-stream-11-march-2022This one is going to be more subjective, and a mix of comments directly related to what was said/shown, peripherally related to what was said/shown, or just thoughts that broadly realte to the game, the community, and where things are heading right now. Before getting to any specifics of the subject matter of the dev stream, let's look at the broadcast itself, and the…

15Mar 2022 by PatchT No Comments

Blankos Block Party – Dev Stream 11th March 2022 – Q&A

Blankos, Blog, Community, Games, Twitch

Leading up to a planned Twitch stream by Mythical staff members, in addition to various information and news about various aspects of the game, marketplace and plans for the future, there was also a thread started in the official discord to gather questions from the community which would be answered on the stream.It's not unusual for people to underestimate how long things take to get done, and there was lot of information on a lot of different subjects to try a fit in.Along with the Boss Dino Gem Rushing news being, well, rushed, and the Party Pass news being cut short, there was only a relatively short Q&A segment at the end of the broadcast (not entirely helped by the minute long introduction to it, lol). Unsurprisingly, not all of…

14Mar 2022 by PatchT No Comments

Blankos Dev Stream (11 March 2022)

Blankos, Blog, Games, Twitch

The location for this dev stream was the official Blankos Twitch.tv channel.Twitch stores the broadcast for a while, but it will expire at some point. As long as it's still around, it can be found here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1422552541 Mythical staff appearing in the broadcast:Josh Park - Community ManagerAnish George - Product Leader | Games, NFTs & BlockchainAdrienne "Rizzo" Daniel - Lead ProducerJosh Foreman - Senior Level Designer Information regarding some of the items from Q1 in the roadmap: Blanko Brawl: Blanko Brawl is a new elimination style mode coming to Blankos Block Party. Starting with a team based first round, the winners progress through, and the losers are eliminated. After the team round, the remaining players then take each other on in FFA parties.Brawls are likely to be 2-4 rounds long.…

25Jan 2021 by PatchT No Comments

Virtual Photography

Blog, Games, Twitch, Virtual Photography

Have you even heard of it?Recently I came across Shinobi_Space streaming on Twitch.He was streaming Cyberpunk 2077, but not really 'playing' it.It was part of a series he was doing of a hike through Night City.The game itself has had, well, teething troubles.But it does look amazing.Not really my type of gameplay, but even I nearly bought in to the hype.The cars… No doubt I'll look foolish in the future for thinking this, but it feels like a fairly recent upward shift in both computing power and connectedness of people could mean that virtual photography becomes popular very quickly. I'm writing this in a time of pandemic.How many real world photography trips will that have scuppered?Well, now you can go on adventures in this and other worlds without leaving the…

22Jan 2021 by PatchT 1 Comment

The Streak is Dead. Long Live the Stream?

Blog, Streaking, Twitch

Decision making.It's a key element in gaming.As it is in sports, and the lines between the two are beginning to blur a bit.Strategy, tactics, in the moment. And it's the same in life more generally.Decision making is crucial.As is taking action.The two go hand in hand.To some degree, neither are much use on their own. With decisions, you can always rethink and change direction.With actions, not so much.But, I still believe that action is the more important of the two.Even action in the wrong direction brings experience and practice at doing.You may even have found out that the decision is wrong only because you took action on it. Anyway, I've been wrestling with a decision about the stream streak I've been pursuing.It's come to mind more regularly over time. There…

04Jan 2021 by PatchT 1 Comment

The Game Streamer With the ‘Buy No Games’ Rule. WTF?

Blog, Games, Streaking, Twitch

Hobbyist variety game streamer.Self imposes game buying ban twice.Four months worth, and then for over six months the following year. But why?Too much choice.So many good games, old and new.Discounts are common.There are freebies from various online game stores and sites.Sort-of-freebies from the likes of Prime Gaming, PS+, Xbox Live Gold.And a lot of free-to-play stuff. Which makes it very easy to build up an ever growing backlogAnd then decision fatigue.67.4% of all Steam games purchased never get played. * I'm not generally one for New Year's resolutions.But the summer 'no games' rules I've set previously started August 2019 and May 2020, and ran to the end of their years.So the most recent just expired and the new one started straight after. And the new Regime is:Play games from the…

31Jul 2019 by PatchT No Comments

First Stream Streak Target Hit – 100 Days

Blog, Streaking, Twitch

Yay! 100 day streak in the bag. I mentioned in the previous streak related blog post that I should at least be looking at hitting triple figures for this current streak. So, target one achieved. Will come back to the next target(s) later… So, what did I learn from 100 consecutive days of streaming for at least one hour? One thing is that I need to be more disciplined about writing new posts for this blog! More seriously, I'm not sure what I've learned. Ask me again at day 200. (Though that suggests I've learned to like streaking and intend to keep going.) Let's just get to the facts then. The what, where, when and how of the streak. Looking back at the recordings, I was a bit surprised to…

14May 2019 by PatchT 1 Comment

Streaking

Blog, Streaking, Twitch

Ahhhh. Who doesn't love a good streak? Stripping off, running down the road with the wind in your hair, and up yer… Whoah ! No. Not that kind of streak, thank you very much. I'm talking about an altogether different kind of run. A stream streak. Streaming every day, and seeing how many you can go for. It's a bit like a winning streak. Each day with a stream is a win, miss a day and the streak is broken. TheBusinessmanPK was my inspiration for trying to put a stream streak together. I think he started right on the first day of 2018, and went on to smash through the 100 day mark. Having a holiday in the middle somewhere meant that some mobile phone, IRL streams from the beach…

09May 2019 by PatchT No Comments

Welcome, Waffle and Pivot.

Blog, Twitch

Hello, welcome to the home of all things ‘Patch Tuesday’. Streamer and waffler extraordinaire. Which is me, hello. I’ve been streaming on twitch for a couple of years now. I started because I’d found iRacing and wanted to join the group of racers that streamed it, and be a champion sim-racer. Hopefully the humour, entertainment value, cool people in chat and waffle have made up for the fact that I’m only ever going to be a sim-racing champ if 98% of iRacers give up. As it’s a touch disappointing to fall so far below expectations in a field you really wanted to be great at, I’ve become a variety streamer, and played a whole bunch of other games in my time on Twitch.tv. Just as well Rocksmith and Twitch Sings…

10Sep 2018 by PatchT No Comments

Twitch Streaming With No Audience

Knowledge Base, Twitch

You’ve been watching some streams and think it looks fun, so you want to give it a try yourself. One of the main factors in the success of Twitch and gaming streams in general has been the fact that the broadcaster and their viewers can interact in real time while the broadcast is live. Unless you have a ready made audience (like Dele Alli, Matt Heafy, Drake etc.) the chances are you will begin your streamer journey talking to yourself. Possibly quite a lot. I’d recommend making the most of this period. And although you could practice by recording yourself without actually going live, that won’t get you ‘match fit’. Watching experienced streamers is like watching the well practiced do anything. They make it look easy. There is a large…

Category: Twitch