In this thread, I wanted to make a list of people who stream themselves TASing a game. This is to encourage viewership and community growth. Because TASing takes a lot of time and effort, it's nice to have people to interact with who are interested in what they're seeing. My goal is for people to see this thread and find someone who TASes a game they enjoy. I can't speak for everybody on this list, but I've gotten several viewers who had no idea what TASing was. This is a good opportunity to help grow the community and get more people interested in watching and making TASes. I also hope to encourage more TASers to stream themselves working on their projects. If you know of anybody that streams TASing that wasn't included on this list, post a link to their stream and I'll add it. Also, let me know what games you TAS and I'll list them (up to maybe 3 or 4 games)
Name:
FitterSpace
Twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/fitterspace
Games: GoldenEye: Rogue Agent and 007: Nightfire
Name:
theenglishman
Twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/theenglishman
Game: Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions
Name:
Mavalock
Twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/mavalock
Game: 007: The World is Not Enough
Name:
tasMalleo (Malleoz)
Twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/tasmalleo
Game: Paper Mario and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Name:
Weatherton
Twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/weatherton
Game: Mario Kart 64
Name: Link_7777
Twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/link_7777
Games: TASMania
Name: DwangoAC
Twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/dwangoac
Games: TASBot
Tips for TAS streaming:
Because TASing isn't the most entertaining thing to watch, I recommend playing some video game music in the background. I find that video game music works better than real life music since it appeals to a more general audience. People are more likely to enjoy listening to music from the game you're TASing (or similar games) than random music from a playlist.
If you're streaming to Twitch, be sure to set your community to "speedrunning". The Speedrunning community on twitch exists to make it easy to find speedrun streams, much like SpeedRunsLive. The moderators of that community encourage TAS streams, which is good. This increases viewership because there are tons of people who scroll through the list to find a game they like. This is a good opportunity to introduce TASvideos to a wider audience.
Use a mic. As a viewer, it's hard to be interested in a TAS stream if i'm only seeing the game itself. Without a mic (or webcam), viewers who are unfamiliar with TASing are unlikely to care about what they're seeing.
Assuming you stream often, you will get viewers who don't know what TASing is. I've mentioned it several times in this post, but this is a good chance to introduce the concept of TASing to a wider audience. Explain what frame advance is, explain savestates, explain TAS input, explain what you're trying to accomplish, explain everything. The more they learn about it, the more interested they will be, and they'll be more likely to watch more TASes that people work for months, or even years, on.