Tyler Witkin · Lead Community Manager, Austin

Oh, yeah. I think now's a good time. So in the past, we've had opportunities given to our developers and to CIG staff to appear on various YouTube videos or livestreams for members of our community. Now, as our community continues to grow, so does the need for us to streamline this process. And so this is actually really exciting. So in the past, the way it's worked is people from our community would tweet at us or send in a support ticket or try whichever avenue they could possibly get through to see if they could get somebody from CIG to appear on their show. And what we've realized is that we love that we're getting invited to do these things. We want to do them more. So we're going to help facilitate an organized process to do just that. So coming soon, TM, to the website is something we've been working on, which is an Invite a Developer form. And what this basically is, is an opportunity for you to fill out a form that says, hey, what's the name of your show? What are you guys all about? What's your scheduling like? Because obviously scheduling is super important. Our goal is for this process to not impact the game's development in any way. So much so that a lot of our developers are going to be doing this in their free time after hours just because they want to, which is really cool. But in this form, you'll also be able to request things like, let's say that your livestream is going to be all about environment art or procedural planet technology. Well, you can actually put in the type of discipline that you're hoping to get from CIG to appear in your show, and we'll take that into consideration. Now, of course, as a disclaimer, I have to say there's no guarantee that we're going to be able to accommodate every single request that comes in. But I will say that our goal is to be more accommodating than we were before. This is going to help us by taking all the information, all the invitations, all the requests, being able to put it in one place for us to really evaluate how much can we do, how frequently can we do it, and for us just to make this process better so that we can get more involved and be more engaged with all of you.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Content Manager for Global Video Production

Yes, thank you for putting that disclaimer in there. Of course, always the highest priority has to be their work on the game. But I think it'll be a good step towards reaching even more communication platforms than we currently do now.