{"id":42097,"date":"2018-03-04T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=42097"},"modified":"2018-03-04T00:17:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T05:17:29","slug":"the-shamecast-grand-theft-auto-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=42097","title":{"rendered":"The Shamecast: Grand Theft Auto V"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"?p=42078\">Last Wednesday<\/a> I did an hour long stream of Grand Theft Auto V. We drove around the city, fussed over environment detail, talked about the walk cycles of pedestrians, discussed the tricks used to make storefront facades look believable, looked at environment maps, analyzed different sidewalk textures, got excited about the dynamic day \/ night transitions, and killed hundreds and hundreds of people.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V2aMUMS7KYU\">uploaded the video to YouTube<\/a> for those of you who missed the stream.<\/p>\n<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V2aMUMS7KYU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V2aMUMS7KYU'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>This was actually really fun. I was always worried that streaming would be stressful, but this was pretty chill. I guess it helped that only 40 people showed up, so I didn&#8217;t have the anxiety of learning to stream in front of a huge crowd. It felt more like hanging out with a small group of friends and talking about games. (There were 40+ people, but only a handful participated in chat, so still felt like a small group.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to commit to making this a regular thing, but I do plan to try it again this week. Wednesday night at 6pm eastern time \/ 11pm GMT.<\/p>\n<p>Stuff I&#8217;m working on: <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The framerate was too choppy. I ran some tests, and according to Twitch my internet connection is just fine, so the choppy performance was certainly due to my computer&#8217;s lack of power. I&#8217;m going to work on making it smoother. That means making the game window a little smaller.\n<li>Since the game window is smaller, we&#8217;re going to have some empty space in the frame above my face. So I&#8217;m going to put the chat window there. This way you can see what I&#8217;m reading. (Which isn&#8217;t always clear, because viewers are on a 5-10 second delay and the thing I&#8217;m answering may have scrolled off by then.) This will also make it so that people watching the VOD on YouTube will be able to follow both sides of the conversation.\n<li>I&#8217;m going to fiddle with the lights a bit. I&#8217;m not going to blast myself in the face with studio lights or anything (yuck, I have no idea how people can play like that) but I&#8217;ll see if I can add some illumination so my face is lit by more than the monitor and my keyboard.\n<\/ol>\n<p>I&#8217;ll probably keep doing this until I get bored of it. See you there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Wednesday I did an hour long stream of Grand Theft Auto V. We drove around the city, fussed over environment detail, talked about the walk cycles of pedestrians, discussed the tricks used to make storefront facades look believable, looked at environment maps, analyzed different sidewalk textures, got excited about the dynamic day \/ night [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42097"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42100,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42097\/revisions\/42100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}