VIDEOGRAPHER MODE IN ONLINE GAMES

A online gaming system may provide for a videographer mode in online gaming. The online gaming system may initiate an instance of an online game for players playing the online game in a player mode, establish connections to respective game clients of the players and to a videographer client of a computing device of a videographer, the videographer being a user participating in the online game in a videographer mode differing from the player mode, the videographer mode including capturing gameplay at least one of the players. Then, the online game system may receive player input data from at least one of the players, update a game state of the instance based on the player input data, and output respective game client data to the respective game clients and videographer client data the videographer client.