The future of Everyplay

Hello Everyplay devs,
I am curious if there is any plans to add new features to Everyplay and in general if there are long terms plans for it.
I am asking cause right now it seem development has kind of stalled and it is always more quiet here.
There are a lot of alternatives right now and some are even integrated in the os.
-Replaykit allow anybody to record in a frictionless way, and even live broadcast with any broadcasting app you have installed.
-Mobcrush let you live broadcast and then keep the recording in the portal, so it could also be used for simple gameplay recording. It also has chat and donations.
-Play games services has allowed recording and live broadcasting, although it's a little immature imho.

Any plans to step up the game? How about adding live broadcasting too?
The sharing workflow should be revised too in my opinion as it seem a little unintuitive.
I am integrating everyplay in my game since it's the only one who have a good support for sharing incentivization at the moment, but I wouldn't want to lay my eggs on something which has been dropped.
Right now it seem the focus is only to fix bugs, which you should know well on a competitive and fast changing market like mobile cannot work.

 

I agree with original poster. I used this for Mobile and my users were so upset with the functionality that they forced me to remove it.

My wish list, tho:
-AutoShare recordings without Prompting the player to the same domain hosting the client.
-WebGL functionality.

 

Hi Simo,
Thanks for your response.

Technically not true. I mentioned those because these are the most promising but there are also asian parties which fit these criterias like openrec and lobi( supported by giants like Monster Strike an Puzzle and Dragons).
Speaking of Asia, how is the localization going along? It's few buttons, not hundreds of line of text.
Using the latest sdk still show everything in english. Do you have an ETA?

I just tested an S4 mini with an unofficial Nougat 7.1 and it's not working. The same device was working with 6.0 and the video encoding acceleration is working, tested with another app and the logs also says everything seem fine. I am attaching the log.

Anyway things that should be revised to be an app of 2016:
1-Proper localization.
2-Allow login with sdk when available. Facebook has a nice sdk which simply call the facebook app when installed 90% of the time, why not use it?
Furthermore google says that webview oauth is deprecated and may discontinued soon, so youtube login may stop working soon. The proper way to do it is by opening the web browser so that the user can actually check the legitimacy of a request. For all the user know that webview could be a page storing all their credentials.
3-Allow to fallback to a software encoder on unsupported devices.
4-Allow manually clearing failsafe
5-Make the dialog all consistent! Right now there is leftover from even Unity acquisition.
The share UI use the new style, the edit UI use another old style, Facebook,Twitter login has the Everyplay icon from thousand years ago.
Thanks

 

I dropped Everyplay after years of "we are working on..." bs.
I was very excited some years ago when I added everyplay to my game and the potential it could have, but in all this time, the updates are mostly bug fixes. For iOS I moved to Replaykit and for Android i'm moving to Google Play. Not only because they work better but because Everyplay was creating all kind of issues on devices to the point my players requested to completely remove it and they would use other means to record.

Now, it would be nice if Everyplay was really cross-platform, but 2 platforms does not mean cross platform. I can easily use any plugin on iOS/android, what are important are the other missing platforms like mac/pc/windows8x. Which btw, had been requested a million times and "we are working on..." replied.

In short, Everyplay at this point is dead. If you go to their website and check your account (i just did after over a year without stopping by), you'll see there hasn't been a single change. No analytics (also requested and "we are working on...", no anything new whatsoever.

I hope things turn around but until I see more doing and less talking, I'm using other plugins.

Sorry for the negative post, and I hope someone at Everyplay finally gets the message.

 

from the replies and considering that it's been 2 months without updates or roadmaps... is this the answer?

 

It seems pretty alive to me - as ullatussimo said above, it's the only cross (mobile) platform solution with all the socials built in. It's cake to setup, interface is unobtrusive, web stuff looks nice and works well. And it's free! I can also report that it works well with arkit, hopefully arcore will be the same.

Mobile movie making is about to blow up with AR kit/core, and I think Everyplay is positioned to be a leading gateway for that kind of thing. The content compared to twitch just hasn't been as compelling, but that's about to change.

 

He last posted in November 2016. We are almost in November 2017. If that sounds pretty alive... still waiting for a roadmap or something somewhere

 

Any news? Roadmap? Localization?

 

I guess It's pretty obvious by now that Everyplay is not actively developed anymore and only maintained to the minimum to support new OS versions and devices.

 

Hi guys. I suggest that you check out the NatCorder API. We started developing it after getting frustrated at Everyplay's shortcomings (and Unity's slow response in addressing them). NatCorder offers more features than Everyplay, most significantly in custom recording resolutions and encoder parameters. It is still in beta so we are sharing it with as many developers as we can (for free) to get good feedback on bug reports and feature requests.

 

So it's that time of the year again:
Any update on Everyplay future? If it's being discontinued please tell us in advance, the last update was in September.

 

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Seems like your question has been answered: https://forum.unity.com/threads/everyplay-service-shutdown-notice.527525/

 

I just saw the email. I was honestly shocked at this. It seems that NatCorder came at the right time for developers.

 

Yes, and I am happy I took the risk on NatCorder even though it was beta and brand new in the market. Thank you for all the hard work @Lanre !

 

Thanks for supporting NatCorder. Please let me know of any issues.

 

A bit late to the "party", but would megacool.co solve any of your issues with the user experience flow, @00christian00 and @Blarp ?

 

No, because the point in my users recording content is so that I can spread the content accordingly through any social media channel or self hosted hub of my choosing. Not through an intermediary that micro-transactions the shares, which handicaps my ability to spread the content. Locked down sharing abilities basically defeats the purpose. You should probably find a different avenue to monetize that doesn't effect your ability to gain developer adoption.

This is like, what photon is to networking. Something to get a short term idea down, but then completely remove it when you have enough money to fund development to do it correctly.

Your product is something that I would not try past the initial research.

 

I thought I'd add to this since the Megacool service looks pretty interesting. We are considering adding GIF recording to NatCorder on only iOS and Android. If so, then you get GIF recording without all the overhead and restrictions that services like Megacool and Everyplay impose on developers. I'll keep you updated.

EDIT: We're adding GIF recording to NatCorder on iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS.

EDIT EDIT: We added GIF recording to NatCorder in the latest version, 1.3.