I got an email as part of the Twitch Developer community about upcoming changes to the Twitch API (Kraken). On an initial read I was a little bit confused and slightly worried as the changes come into effect quite quickly. So I thought it was worth a look to see how problematic the changes were […]
Posted by admin on November 18th, 2016
I am stupidly pleased with myself, no I’ve not got a new job or a new car or won the lottery. I’ve finished a video game and what’s so pleasing about that you ask? The video game I just finished is Dark Souls. I’m 47 this year, I have a mortgage and a job and […]
Posted by admin on July 16th, 2016
I recently posted about adding Twitch game box art to your stream using a web page that I wrote, it took me quite some time to work out how to do it and I thought I would share my experience and also give anyone the opportunity to amend the code as they see fit. I’m […]
Posted by admin on March 18th, 2016
Have you ever wanted to display the game art for a title that you are playing on your stream but not wanted to download a new image for each new game you play. Well help is at hand I’ve written a very quick script that you can include as a browser page in OBS or […]
Posted by admin on March 18th, 2016
I’ve been trying to find time to work out how to explain my Dual PC streaming setup and I thought I would write a few words about it to see if it inspired me to explain everything clearly. Video: Console(s) to HDMI Switch Input 1 Gaming PC to HDMI Switch Input 2 HDMI Switch Output […]
Posted by admin on March 9th, 2016
This is going to be a very short post about nodecg which I have started using to achieve two things. First improve the quality of my stream by creating cool notifications and second to learn a little javascript/Nodejs. In my simplistic understanding nodecg is a small web server which you can use with the OBS […]
Posted by admin on November 5th, 2015
If you are trying to have a ‘brand’ then you are probably like me in that you have a consistent theme to images on your social media outlets. However one size does not fit all in these circumstances. This means I keep having to dig around and find the optimal sizes for different images. So […]
Posted by admin on June 20th, 2015
Dull title I know but I thought it would be an interesting experiment to look back on the games I have played this year, turns out there are quite a few and I have no doubt I’ve missed some out. The full list is at the bottom of the post but there are a few […]
Posted by admin on January 1st, 2015
Really Adrian, Really? Yeah why not – I love Christmas. I’m on-call over this Christmas holiday as well but I’m still looking forward to it. The plan this year is to spend Christmas lunch with my family, Christmas tea with Caroline’s family and then spend Boxing day just on our own chilling out and eating. […]
Posted by admin on December 23rd, 2014
I backed Elite Dangerous on Kickstarter what seems like a long time ago and I’ve finally had a chance to play it properly even though I had access to the early single player release. The game is at a Beta 3 level now and from my initial look it seems pretty polished which bodes well for […]
Posted by admin on November 10th, 2014