For streamers

Maverick Skies is built to be streamed. Turn on chat play in Settings → Streaming and your viewers vote on your cards, your route and the boss, send help or trouble, and fly in the fight under their own names.

Yes, you can stream it

Stream it, record it and post videos of it, including monetised ones. The voices are ours, and the music is licensed for the game and for videos of it (the sources are on the credits page). If a video still gets a copyright claim, send the link to maverickskies@outlook.com and I'll get it released. The terms say so too.

Set up in a minute

Settings → Streaming. Pick your platform and type your channel name. That's enough to read your chat: no sign-in.
Pick a preset. Votes only (chat votes on your cards), Cozy (chat helps and decides, nothing it sends can hurt you) or Chaos (everything on, hitting harder). Or switch each feature yourself.
Sign in, if you want more. On Twitch: channel point rewards, Twitch polls and predictions, and votes posted in your chat. On YouTube: a YouTube poll whose choices match the vote counts as the vote, and signing in with Google lets the game start the poll for you (YouTube sign-in is still in testing with Google, so for now reading chat by channel name is the way in). On Kick: a Kick poll counts as the vote, and channel point rewards you create on Kick, named as Settings shows, land in the game.
Add the overlay to OBS. Add a Browser source with the URL http://127.0.0.1:47811/ (the game must be running). It shows the open vote and the hype meter on your stream; the game shows them too, so the overlay is optional.

What your chat can do

Vote on level-up cards by typing !1, !2… You can always pick yourself.
Vote on the route on the star map.
Vote on the boss: a fair fight, a weakened boss or an armoured one.
Help or hinder: every few minutes, a repair, a supply drop or a magnet against an elite, a drone surge or a raid wave.
Fly in the fight: enemy elites carry a chatter's name, and your wingmen fly with chatters' call signs.
Hype meter: when chat gets loud, the bar fills and drops you supplies.
Raids, subs, gifts and cheers land in the fight: a raid brings a drone wave led by the raider, a sub drops scrap round your ship.

Each feature has its own switch, and you choose whose chat counts for it: everyone, subscribers, VIPs or moderators.

You stay in charge

Off by default	Nothing reaches the game until you switch chat play on.
F9	Pauses all of chat play at once. Press it again to bring it back.
Mods	Your moderators can type `!mav pause`, `!mav resume`, `!mav ban name` and `!mav unban name`.
No hindering	One switch keeps chat to helping only.
Word filter	Keeps rude names off the ships.
Streamer mode	Hides your channel name on screen.

Chat play works in solo runs, never in co-op, Versus or the challenge boards. A run your chat changed is marked CHAT on its results, and your achievements still count.

Something to talk about

Box, the Maverick's flight recorder, comments on your run, and over 400 meme moments are hidden in the game for chat to spot. Speedrunning on stream? The speedrun page has the timer, splits and LiveSplit.