YouTube integration in games by Team Bondi

Gamasutra have a detailed technical feature with sample code on integrating youtube uploading functionality in your game, written by Team Bondi programmer, Claus Höfele. Many are starting to see youTube functionality as a valuable addition to the gaming experience as a way to encourage user created content and community building. Recently, games such as Spore, PixelJunk Eden, Mainichi Issho, and Real Racing (developed by Australia's Firemint), have shown some of the possibilities of the video upload feature to enhance the gaming experience...

(Claus Höfele) Adding YouTube upload to your game is straightforward, but requires some planning.

To start with, you need to decide how you are going to record the game footage. From the discussed options, a framebuffer capture is the easiest to add to an existing game, but recording game state or player input gives you more flexibility to apply changes to the recording. If you want to change the camera angle later on, for example, game state recordings allow you to do that.

Finally, an application can upload videos with YouTube's RESTful interface; a protocol based on HTTP. The demo application for this article comes with an implementation for authentication, search, and video upload requests that you can use for your own game.