Hello and RescindentArchives Roadmap!

Welcome to the first entry in my Project Blog, devoted to progress updates on my various projects, be they software, literature or art.

RescindentArchives

RescindentArchives is a passion project that I have used to keep my programming skills ticking along. It has also given a new purpose to the archive server I built to store old video from the various games I have played, now broadcasted on the channel for all to see. While the video may not be that exciting to seasoned gamers, it is a window to the gaming worlds I have visited over the years. I keep telling myself that one day these unedited videos will be interesting for others to reflect on, but only time will tell!

You can watch and vote on the channels below:

• Twitch
• Mixer
• YouTube

The story thus far

• 0.1 - Integrating Video with the Twitch Chat Bot
• 0.2 - Iterating on the Voting format
• 0.3 - Launching on Mixer and YouTube, via Restream (restream.io)

There are a lot of solid foundations in the present version, 0.3.4, to build upon. The chat bot is well integrated with Twitch and Mixer, with some issues on YouTube. Organising the video content has also come along well and is worthy of a future article.

Roadmap

0.4 - Schedules and Events

The current format will be going away and replaced by one familiar to anyone that has watched television. Instead of voting for what you would like to see at this very moment, viewers will be scheduling, or rescheduling, the next event.

0.4.1 - To mute or to unmute?

Some of the video played on the channel has private conversations mixed into the audio, making the sound a bad candidate for broadcasting. Others are completely free from such restrictions and could have the audio broadcast. Video will be vetted and the Bot updated to allow appropriate audio to be played.

0.4.2 - Vote for your soundtrack

At the moment viewers have no control over the music that plays in the background. This version will introduce a vote for soundtracks.

Pretzel (https://app.pretzel.rocks/) is a nice solution to broadcasting music without fear of copyright claims, but there are many great royalty-free soundtracks on other platforms. Another aspect of this version will be trying to expand the variety of music available.