Spectate live games

[xoria]

Would be pretty cool if we could spectate live games. For example right from the main menu we go to "Spectate" (or "Live" or ... whatever) and get the list of live games which we can observe. To toggle our own current local game for spectating we press "Esc" -> "Allow spectating" (or "Disable spectating" if it's opened to close it). If we would spectate games we would see everything just like the original player except of mouse cursor I think. Of course all of this would be full of spoilers. But if you already know all stuff or just don't care why not? It will be "ToME TV" lol Sometime I search YT for games, but there are not so many of them and often they're out of date. Observing other's games in itself will populate game experience.

P.S. Don't know if such thing can be even possible from the technical side.

[bpat]

I doubt it'd be possible or realistic to implement, but players could always stream on Twitch.

[0player]

Due to the game architecture, it would be ...interesting to implement, especially particle effects. The most economic way is sending the graphical data anyway; it's either that or send the entire game state each turn (-> it's like saving each turn), which is unrealistic.

[xoria]

As the viewers I believe we don't need all game data, just those for being able to see the screen.

[jenx]

Why not a simple screen share facility like you get in Skype etc?