1. Streaming Part 2
Nicholas Alt, Mitchell Arthur, Sean Burke, Jason Flanders, Junfei Huang

2. Overview How are developers using live streaming
How are games being made for live streaming
How are devs. taking advantage of live streaming
The future of live streaming in games
Xbox SmartGlass
PlayStation Vita
NVIDIA Shield

3. Review of Part 1 Evolution of recorded online game content
Live Content
Twitch.tv
Billions of hours watched
Console and PC games of all genres
Viewers
Personal - Thousands of concurrent viewers
Tournaments, Conferences, and other professional - Millions
Both competitive, casual, and developer broadcasters a.k.a streamers
Streamers can make a living off add revenue

4. Developing : Barriers to Entry
Capturing and Streaming
Hardware intensive
Capture and encoding and is CPU intensive
Discrete capture cards can reduce CPU load
Expensive
Needed for console streaming
OBS and Xsplit are all in one solutions
Other options are FMLE + Virtual Audio Cables + Capture...

5. Developing : Barriers to Entry
Bandwidth
Low Quality < 1Mbps (upload)
Not enjoyable for viewer
High Quality > 5Mbps (upload)
1080p, 60 fps
Latency Issues
Nothing game developers can do

6. Developing : Barriers to Entry
Hosting Content
Hosting live content was expensive
ESL and MLG
Twtich.tv provides free hosting
Supported by ad revenue
Monopoly on the market
Own3d.tv shutdown
Youtube live and Azubu.tv not viable options

7. Developing: Clients In game streaming clients
Twitch provided SDK (2012)
“Our goal is to make broadcasting games as easy as possible...” - Kevin Lin, Twitch COO
DOTA 2 , Planetside 2
Players do not have to purchase licensing
Easier to set up but fewer options

8. Planetside 2 Stream Client

9. Developing: Console Support
Console Apps
Xbox 360
Twitch App for Xbox Live (2013)
Viewing only
Next Gen
Xbox One and PS 4 Twitch apps
Viewing and broadcasting
PS4 UStream App

10. Developing: Console Support
Xbox 360 App

11. Developing: Console Support
Advantages :
No AdBlock
No capture card needed
Devs. do not have to build game specific clients
Easier to configure
Disadvantages :
Less interaction
Harder to use chat
Twitch.tv only (Xbox)
Lack of peripherals
Fewer settings*
Quality and performance issues*
*Assumptions based on what information has been released

12. Devs. Using Live Streaming
Developer Streams
Promotion
PS4 Announcement
Blizzcon, live this weekend!
Xbox Arcade
Indy dev streams
Interact with customers
Dev personal streams
Devs. appear on popular live talk show streams
Devs. talk in popular twitch chats

13. Guild Wars 2 Dev. Streams ArenaNet Official Streams
Bi-weekly patch preview
“Interactive Patch Notes”
Quick feedback for future patches
Appearance on talk shows
Talk with popular players and players in chat
Get feedback and discuss future patches
Official ANet streams only, no personal streams

14. Riot Employee Live Streams
Riot Games, makers of League of Legends
Many popular employees have personal streams
Talk with viewers about upcoming changes and game balance
Play custom games with viewers
Informal approach compared to ArenaNet

15. Xbox SmartGlass Software (included in Xbox update) Smart phones
Windows 8
iOS
Tablets

16. Immerse The Player Added content Interactions Information
Non-direct co-operative play

17. Entertainment
Xbox SmartGlass is more of an entertainment system facilitator

18. PlayStation Vita
Replacement for PSP
Games
Video
Music
Streaming

19. NVIDIA Shield Android OS Very Powerful Games Video Music
Tegra 4 Processor
Tegra 4: Quad Core ARM Processor (+1 energy saving core)
72 GPUs

20. Its a Revolution First of its kind Processing done on PC
Play “any” PC game on the go
In beta
Streaming done through steam
50 Games Supported, notable ones: Dishonored, Skyrim, Batman Arkham Origins and Borderlands 2
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21. Requirements PC with GTX 650+
G-wireless router (Dual band N router is recommended)
Latest software and drivers
GTX 650 ~ $120
G-router ~ $50 (N-router ~ $100)
Shield = $300

22. Other Features TwitchTV Tegra Zone Steam Google Play Hulu Plus
Connected to other android devices

23. The Future Big Debate NVIDIA will trigger ‘cloud gaming’
NVIDIA was a one time model that will fail in the future

24. Cloud Gaming
"A model where someone is playing a AAA blockbuster game where there could be latency issues -- and by the way, while they're playing, they're running up the meter on their broadband, adding huge, incremental costs on top of their standard broadband bill -- is not an infrastructure or model that scales on a consistent global level", David Dennis, senior group manager for Xbox

25. Local Processing: The Future

26. Questions?

27. References