If you are not subscribed to Streamlabs Prime - you can get Ticker by subscribing to Streamlabs Prime by clicking on this link. If you are already subscribed to Streamlabs Prime - you can download Ticker on the App Store portion of your Streamlabs OBS, or just follow this link. Streamlabs Prime is Streamlabs’ new subscription service that, among other things, grants streamers access to all apps on the App Store, a custom website creator, and merch store, themes, and more. Ticker is provided free of charge to all Streamlabs Prime subscribers. Streamlabs OBS for PC comes built-in with an App Store where devs (such as myself) build apps that streamers can use directly from their OBS to improve their stream. Streamlabs OBS is Streamlabs’ implementation of OBS, a piece of software streamers use to record and broadcast to websites such as Twitch, YouTube, Mixer, and Facebook. Ticker is an app on the Streamlabs OBS App Store. Besides, as written below, this is not the only use for Ticker. To be fair, having messages rotated in a news ticker still does not guarantee the audience acknowledging them, but I believe that it increases their chances to do so. The streamer would put it in the bottom or top of their stream and will be able to edit the text that’s being rotated, making it easy to communicate announcements, commands, stream-specific instructions, and memes. The solution - implementing a horizontal text slide, as they do on the news. The bio is long and essentially made invisible by the stream (as it sits below it). Chatbot posts are easy to miss (especially if the viewer has their chat closed). The stream title is quite short, and can only convey so much information. That got me thinking - how can a streamer show the audience what’s going on at a glance? Streamers typically use the stream title, chatbots and the bio/description to tell the audience what’s happening. “I have answered this question just 2 minutes ago, I am not answering this again”, “For the Xth time this stream…”, are expressions I hear far too often in streams. However, the fact that the streamer has to answer the same questions over and over causes frustration for everybody involved. They indicate that the audience is interested in the content. These questions themselves are a good thing. A phenomenon I keep seeing in all kinds of streams is repeating questions from viewers: “What mode are you playing?”, “Will you be doing a Halloween stream?”, “How do I play with you?”, and so on. A part of what makes live streams great is the interactivity between the streamer and the audience. Ticker, a customizable news ticker app that I’ve been developing for broadcasters, was conceived in that exact manner. Being someone who watches streams, develops software and generally likes to solve problems, I often find myself thinking about recurring problems I see in streams.
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