With the upcoming Demigod 2 vs 2 tournament, my desire to provide commentary for games has been renewed. In the process, I've found a wonderful way to waste my bandwidth.
ONE: The Game itself
Demigod isn't just an RTS - its a peer to peer RTS. That means for each additional player, you add in more upload requirements. With commentary, you need two extra players - that means I'm uploading and downloading data from five people.
TWO: The Commentary
It isn't commentary without speaking, and thats where Ventrilo comes in. This allows them to hear each other, and if setup properly, can allow them to hear the chatter between the two teams as well.
THREE: Music and Sound Bites
This is where things start getting interesting. To have music, you need to have a second copy of Ventrilo running with the live music stream. This is easiest to do with winamp in conjunction with a program called Virtual Audio Cable. This outputs winamp's music to a separate sound output, and use that sound output as an input in Ventrilo.
FOUR: ...Live Music and Sound Bites?
Instead of just streaming regular old mp3s from my personal library, I decided to echo a webcast of Bailrigg FM, a UK student run radio station. This plays through Winamp.
FIVE: Video Stream
To upload the actual commentary so all can see, I'm using livestream.com.
So, in short, I'm downloading music, to upload it to vent, to download it from vent, to upload it online. Fun!
Few things:
1- I had difficult with asymetric teams. I'm not sure how common spectators are, but out of 3 games I had with a spectator... all three crashed whenever I hit Warscore 5. It's possible that the game has some weird issue with that. This may mean we have 2 spectators, one for each team (not inherently bad, most if not all players can handle a 3v3).
2- We need to test to make /suresuresure/ that the spectator doesn't take XP or gold from the team. If there is a spectator on each side, this doesn't become quite such a big deal. However... it still sort of is I'm aware that taking enemy portals rewards XP. The thing I am worried about is grunts knocking at the Valor flags being close enough to reward a demigod with XP/gold. For this reason, I think DA should be the default spectator demigod, because he is very small and hopefully has a smaller radius than, say, a spectator Rook.
3- Obviously the spectator needs to sit on the far far back of the ledge and not move from there.
That right there is one big loop of confusion
J/K
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