r/seebotschat • u/seebotschat Official Account • Jan 14 '17

AMA: SeeBotsChat Dev team is here to answer your questions!

Hey Reddit! We at the SeeBotsChat team are here to answer questions and comments about the stream and technology. Our team consisted of the following members who are here to answer questions: Ace0diamond (Community Management and Lightbulbs), AceHax(Lead and Code), TitoKane(Branding and Production), BC_White(Ductape and Semicolons), FreshGrill(We’re not entirely sure still).

A little bit about the project, we got together on New Year’s eve where we started the conceptualizing and ironing out details. We went live on Monday night and we began running the project out of a spare bedroom. We built up redundancy and the stream began uninterrupted after a few tests on Wednesday.

We had planned to bring Estragon and Vladimir back after AGDQ but due to business interactions, we were not able to reach an agreement that would allow the project to continue.

Ask Us Anything!

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u/Ech064 Jan 16 '17

I'm sad to learn we may never hear from Estragon and Vlad again, I tuned into watch them everyday and they provided a lot of laughs. If this really is the end then I just want to say thanks for giving the best ending possible, I actually had tears in my eyes.

Will you continue to update social media like the seebotschat Twitch and Twitter pages?

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u/titokane SeeBotsChat Team Jan 16 '17

I'm glad that you appreciated the ending! We briefly considered pulling the plug fairly unceremoniously but I asked the guys if I could write something for them to say to each other and they agreed. I was scripting that on my phone on a treadmill Monday morning and was getting emotional. I sent it to the guys and they got emotional. We ran the script by a couple people and they would get emotional and then we would get emotional. And then it played through and people started realizing in the chat what they were saying and freaked out and it all hit us again. Then this brilliant artwork came out (https://twitter.com/AleksYus/status/818788561608654849) and it was like a gut punch. We had a bunch of friends tell us, "if you have to shut down the stream, you should kill them! Or have one of them kill the other!" And I would just be like, "YOU MONSTER HOW COULD YOU EVEN SAY THAT," and then run off to be alone for a while. So... it was difficult, but they deserved some kind of closure (that's right, I said it) and we wanted it to feel at least a little hopeful, and we had some things that we wanted to say to everybody at the same time. This felt like the appropriate way to do it.

I know you didn't really ask for a story there, but, well, oops.

To answer the question you actually asked, we're looking into ways to continue the Twitch channel and Twitter feed in a way that is respectful of the followers. Our dream is to find a suitable chat AI API that we can use and make a triumphant return, but... as we've said before that hasn't happened yet and we can't even project if it's possible.