Along with many other popular and easily accessible multiplayer games, Minecraft is a commonly chosen medium in which many smaller video makers and players in general will make videos with. This can take the more traditional form of screen captured footage being edited into videos which are then uploaded the the video sharing website of choice or live events can be held in which the footage is broadcast to an audience ‘live’ with a few seconds delay. Both generally require the ‘camera person’ to own and be able to use additional programs that run alongside the game, and this can eat up a computer’s memory. However there might be a solution, for the livestreamers among us as well as the video makers in an indirect fashion.

Today Mojang announced that they are working with popular gaming livestream site, Twitch, to get “native livestreaming support” for both the Mac and PC versions of the game. Twitch has said that it will be a standard implementation with chat and both companies say that the relevant updates should be available to users sometime ‘soon’.

More details should hopefully be emerging soon, but as a video maker I think this could turn out to be a very useful tool. Provided any bugs can be sorted out quickly.