Creator Platforms
Beam has opened to the public but, with several exceptions. When you go to sign up for an account, you are presented with two options. One is to continue as a viewer, allowing you to watch and interact with the current streamers on the platform. The other option is to
Newsletter
Week like this makes one think about how and where one conducts their business. To focus on a single platform in growing a community that is within your niche is a great start but, you do need to plan for the eventual fall of that platform. What happens when the
Creator Platforms
In a move that came out of the blue this morning, LiveSpace has announced that the service will be shutting down on May 1st, 2024. Giving creators and streamers very little warning as to the future of the platform. Even now, no one can spin up a stream as the
Community Update
Continuing the move in bringing everything underneath the 2TonWaffle brand, our current Owncast instance sits at indiebasement.live. After the announcement last night during the Deep Dive stream, our new Owncast instance is going to be at live.2tonwaffle.com. I know that starting from scratch regarding followers stings a
Newsletter
This past week has been pretty busy. There has been a lot of news on the indie game side of things. The Triple I Initiative had its showcase event, in which over 30 game announcements and trailers were shown in under an hour. Which I have to say that there
Indie Games
Some sad news today the Indie Game Collective will be closing down. I've been personally involved with the group and have created many indie game showcases that have been a joy in doing. Many don't realize in that providing the service many other creators were able
Indie Games
The Triple I Initiative just showed off their showcase stream consisting more than 30+ announcements in under an hour. There were so many games shown, it's hard to narrow down one being better than another. Going to look at some of what I thought stood out from the
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Hopefully, you all survived the great Fool's Day of 2024. There were the usual shenanigans from many large tech companies and those "pranks" from creators who tried their hand at the fun, but it didn't land how they thought it would. Typically I find
Wanted to spend a few days going over the recent announcement of Canva acquiring Affinity by Serif, the developers of Affinity Photo, Designer, and Publisher. This announcement was something that I think, many of us never saw coming. The Affinity products were the triumphs of large commercial software that didn&
Wanting to say thank you to those who are subscribed to this newsletter, it means a lot to me. Sharing the knowledge and experience of what I've been finding with a wider audience is somewhat therapeutic. Knowing that I can help just one person is enough. I also
The open-source podcast hosting platform is now showing up within the Softaculus section of many shared hosting providers' C-Panel installs. This is great to see, as it provides those who are use to CPanel or even a shared hosting provider a way to get into the open-source world of
In this episode of the Independent Creator Podcast, Josh dives into the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on content creation workflows. He emphasizes that AI is not something to fear but a tool that can significantly streamline processes like podcast editing, video editing, and more. Josh introduces
Ecamm just released version 4.2 not that long ago and, already we're getting some more improvements to the overall experience. Here's what's included in v4.2.1 * Adds a new warning message when disk space is getting low while recording. * Fixes an issue
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Cloud gaming is still a viable method in enjoying your games on the go, as long as you have a decent internet connection. Perhaps this may be the iniative in which gaming is no longer tied to a single platform or console. A way for gamers of all types can
The latest update from the live streaming platform, Shareplay, is a great quality of life update. We’ve overhauled the leveling within SharePlay! You will gain Experience Points as you interact with the platform. In order to see what your current XP is, simply click on your profile photo in
This week the fine folks working on OBS have released the latest version of the broadcasting software. There have been a lot of bug fixes and even some new features within this new version. I would definitely update your copy of OBS to mess around with these new changes. OBS