So we’re pretty deep into the Spooky Season, and I’ve been thinking about how best I can celebrate my favorite time of year, both here on the website and also on my Twitch channel. Well, my first thought is to play some horror video games on my Twitch stream, but since I downgraded my Gamepass subscription from Ultimate to Essential (because I’m not paying $30/month), I only have access to a few games that fit that bill. Sure, I have some on Steam that would work, but my old laptop just won’t play them anymore, at least not well enough for a Livestream.
That got me thinking, though: Why not break out the laptop for a tabletop roleplaying game stream?
My old laptop can Livestream to Twitch just fine, even though it is running on Ubuntu Linux, and my old Logitech webcam works fine, as well. I haven’t been able to get any Vtuber software to work over Linux, so it would just be my voiceover while I show off various horror TTRPGs I own. But that would be pretty cool in itself, as I have quite the collection, spanning back almost 50 years, and there are a lot of games in my collection that frankly aren’t available to the public anymore.
My annual Halloween Vacation starts next weekend, so I’m thinking that might be a good time to do this Livestream. Then again, I might just record these as videos I can throw up on Youtube instead, as that would be some good content for the week leading up to Halloween, right?
Then again, I’m not monetized on Youtube (only 66 subscribers at the time of my writing this post will do that), and while I don’t make much on Twitch, at least somebody watches my livestreams. It would be a shame to just restrict these videos to Youtube only, and have no one watch them.
Anyway, I do plan to play some horror video games leading up to Halloween, because of course I will. Maybe not some hardcore horror, but at the very least I can play games like “Grim Dawn” for some zombie and demon slaying fun. My streams starting next weekend are going to be a “Hell” of a good time!
UPDATE: I couldn’t get Ubuntu to cooperate, while trying to set up OBS for these Halloween streams, so I decided to drop back ten yards and punt. Despite Microsoft no longer supporting Windows 10, I have reinstalled that operating system on my laptop, gotten a bunch of my Xbox and Steam games carried over to it (at least the ones that should run okay). I have also installed OBS, and tried to get Facerig or Animaze to play nice with it, but that was a failure. But I have set up OBS so that I can do normal streaming (voice only), with video of whatever game I’m playing or the TTRPG books I want to discuss.
I still want to get Animaze working, but it is just not wanting to send video over its virtual camera feed, which is really, really frustrating. I’m sure I can work it out eventually, but I haven’t slept in almost 29 hours as I write this update, so it will have to wait until I’m actually functioning.
