I noticed the streaming widget is absent from the LD website (don’t know if PoV plans to bring that back), but just in case I made a simple streaming feed app as my LD warmup exercise.

Let me know if you find it useful, or it sucks, or whatever

Here it is: https://openfu.com/ld/live

Be sure to check out the Theatre Mode as well, it cycles through all the active streamers in order, and shows you 60 seconds of each stream (with the ability to pause and jump forward when you want). It’s designed to be left running in the background and give a good overview on what everybody’s working on.

Update: there’s also a Tampermonkey script now that you can use to show a stream preview on the regular Ludum Dare site: https://gist.github.com/Udo/c9f2187d0a97773cff16842ed37512a8 – or, if you want to embed it into your own iframe anywhere, use this code:

<iframe style="border: none" src="https://openfu.com/ld/live/?preview-widget" width="280" height="180"></iframe>

And this is what it looks like, using the Tampermonkey script: