Lion Productions livestreamed gameplay and neighborhood interactions from Iceland’s volcanic craters, waterfalls, and extra breathtaking distant places utilizing Blackmagic Design know-how.
Blackmagic Design introduced that Twitch streamer Amiomia, along with accomplice Albert-Jan van Leeuwen, CTO and co-founder of Lion Productions, executed an formidable Iceland Gaming Expedition for EVE On-line Fanfest 2025 utilizing Blackmagic Design know-how. The expedition reworked Amiomia’s EVE On-line gaming protection into an immersive, cellular broadcast expertise with greater than 200 gamers remotely becoming a member of stay battles hosted from a 6,500 12 months outdated volcanic crater.
“After a profitable IRL livestream from final 12 months’s FanFest, the place Amiomia introduced behind the scenes content material which the neighborhood beloved, this 12 months, we wished to take it a step additional,” van Leeuwen defined. “So the concept of the Iceland Gaming Expedition was born.”
Why Iceland? As a result of EVE On-line, a persistent-world massively-multiplayer on-line role-playing sport (MMORPG) with area because the background, was developed and revealed, in 2003, by CCP Video games, an Icelandic online game developer based mostly in Reykjavík. EVE On-line continues to attracts new avid gamers in 2025.
A scene from EVE On-line FanTest
Blackmagic Design shared details about the Iceland Gaming Expedition mission, stating that “by means of their firm Lion Productions, Amiomia, who can also be an EVE On-line accomplice, and van Leeuwen outfitted their automobile with Blackmagic Micro Studio Digicam 4K G2s and an ATEM Mini Excessive ISO stay manufacturing switcher. The setup was used to livestream gameplay and neighborhood interactions from Iceland’s volcanic craters, waterfalls, and extra breathtaking distant places.”
The cellular setup included three Micro Studio Digicam 4K G2s positioned all through the automobile, with one capturing highway footage and two masking host and visitor positions. “The cameras had been splendid as a result of they didn’t take up a lot area and had been largely unobtrusive,” van Leeuwen famous. “That was necessary since we wished to maintain conversations pure.”
An ATEM Mini Excessive ISO dealt with digital camera switching and shade correction by way of a laptop computer from the passenger seat, with the ATEM’s SuperSource important to creating image in image overlays integrating sport content material with digital camera feeds. “The switcher gave us the power to report ISO feeds from all cameras,” defined van Leeuwen. “We had been additionally in a position to shade all three Micro Studio Cameras utilizing the ATEM Software program Management on a laptop computer operated from the entrance passenger seat, which got here in helpful when the lighting contained in the automobile modified continuously.”
Regardless of difficult situations, manufacturing maintained connectivity by means of LiveU items and Starlink Mini for web backup. “There have been two places the place we misplaced all 4G and 5G. Starlink was our solely web, and it by no means fell off,” van Leeuwen stated. “We had at some point of nonstop rain. We streamed from below a tarp subsequent to the automobile, however the present went on.”
The expedition ended at Fanfest with Amiomia sustaining 12 hour each day protection from Reykjavik’s Harpa venue. “Folks appreciated seeing not solely the occasion but additionally the nation. This gave them a glimpse into what it looks like to truly be there,” van Leeuwen noticed. “We wished viewers to interact and really feel like they had been a part of the expertise, not simply sitting at house however to be a part of the expedition themselves.”
The strategy attracted sponsor curiosity and demonstrated how cellular manufacturing can rework occasion protection into immersive experiences. “As avid gamers would say, we touched the grass!” van Leeuwen concluded.
