The APEs of Rival Peak
Greg Reinmuth, Game Designer II, and Joshua Lee, Principal Engineer, Pipeworks Studios As the first Massive Interactive Live Event, or MILE, Rival Peak is a unique opportunity for viewers of a quasi-reality TV show to participate directly in the action as it unfolds. Both collectively and individually, audience members can influence numerous aspects of Rival […]
The Live Operations of Rival Peak
Josh Downs, Live Operations Manager, and Kyle Umstatter, Deployment Engineer – Genvid Technologies The Live Operations (LiveOps) support for Rival Peak may be the most ambitious livestreaming effort ever undertaken, with thirteen simultaneous streams running 24/7 at launch – a dozen of which are each effectively dual streams in their own right. Using Genvid’s unique […]
The UI of Rival Peak
Hal Milton, Design Director; Pete King, Studio Art Director; Brandon Ulm, Game Designer; Tristan Burnside, UI Artist; and Matt Rowton, Art Lead — Pipeworks Studios As the first Massive Interactive Live Event, or MILE, on Facebook, Rival Peak uses the Genvid SDK to enable the audience to interact directly with the show’s characters and environment […]
The Artificial Intelligence of Rival Peak
Sol Sliwinski, Senior Software Engineer, Pipeworks Studios Rival Peak is a new kind of massive interactive live event (MILE) which lives entirely on a Facebook livestream and allows stream viewers to interact with what they’re seeing in real-time. By populating Rival Peak’s world with twelve AI-driven characters and empowering viewers to influence and impact that […]
The Art and Animation of Rival Peak
Peter King, Studio Art Director, Pipeworks Studios A unique, live, interactive entertainment experience deserves a unique visual aesthetic, and that’s what we set out to create for Rival Peak. From a visual standpoint, Rival Peak is part interactive cartoon, part reality TV series, and all different. In my thirty years working in digital art and […]
Introducing Rival Peak
“Starting December 2nd at 9:30PM ET/6:30PM PT, Facebook will be debuting a new interactive reality show called Rival Peak that’s powered by my company, Genvid, with design and creative by Pipeworks Studios and DJ2 Entertainment. You can find it at fb.com/rivalpeak. I could not be more excited to share this experience with the world. Rival […]
