Meow Wolf All Shrimps

Setup

Edit the Content Values for you event by navigating to the Content Management tab in the Site Overview Page.

Edit the Event Start Time to change the countdown on the homepage. Set this to the time at which you want your guests to be able to login.

Edit the Event Description to change the text that's displayed bellow the video player in the screening room.

Click Save to save your changes.

Once you've updated the content of your site, use the Preview buttons on the main page to preview you site content.

Publishing Your Changes

When making changes in the Content Manager, your changes will be available to review on Draft sites (accesses with the "Preview Button" in the last step).

Guests coming to your site will not see these changes until you Publish them to your live site.

To Publish your changes, click Versions on the Site Overview Page.

Versions tab

Here you will see a list of all previously Published versions.

To create a new Version with your latest changes, click Create Version.

Create Version button

Select "meowwolf.screening.live" from the dropdown.

Domain selection dropdown

Then click "Create".

Your version will appear in the Versions list. It will show as "Pending", then "Snapshot Complete", then "Deploying".

Version in the process of publishing

Once it says Deployed with a green checkmark, your changes will be live for Guests to see.

Successfully published site

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Running Your Event

The Show Controller has two modes.

Draft: Only Affects Preview Sites

Live: Affects Your Live Published Site

When running your live event, ensure you are in the Live mode.

The Show Controller has two modes, Draft and Live.

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To control your site during your event, click Show Controller on the Site Overview Page.

Here, you can control variables to change the state of your site, and fire Instructions to trigger shrimp confetti or notifications.

Shrimp Confetti

Guest view of shrimp confetti

To fire the shrimp confetti over the player, simply click the green play button on "Fire Confetti".

Notification

Guest view of notification

Change Notification Content

To change the text content of the notification, edit the notificationContentScreening field, and click Update.

Changing the notification text content will not trigger the notification to send. To send the notification, follow the Send Notification step.

Change notification text content

Send Notification

To send the notification to Guests, click the orange play button on "Show Notification"

Send notification to Guests

Ending Your Event

To end your event, change the eventStatus to EVENT_ENDED, and click "Update". Your Guests will all be pushed to the end page of your event.

Changing the eventStatus value

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FAQ

I see "Manifest could not be loaded" in the video player.

This typically means that you are not sending any stream to the RTMP endpoint for the channel.

I'm pushing buttons in the Show Controller, but nothing is happening.

Ensure your Show Controller is in the right mode.

Draft: Only Affects Preview Sites

Live: Affects Your Live Published Site

When running your live event, ensure you are in the Live mode.