It's been like two weeks and I've actually kept up with my streaming schedule, every day that I've been home! It's actually been sort of enjoyable, just having people stop by and chill out with me. That's the kind of experience I've wanted to gain from streaming, and it finally seems like it's a reality. I guess I've grown to hate streaming a little bit less than I have in the past.
I've been working on Knights Contract every other night for a week or so now, and I think I'm about 2/3 of the way done with the game at this point. I'll probably end up streaming it on another difficulty after I'm done with Squire. I want to see if you can take your upgraded/unlocked spells with you when you move on to another difficulty! As my first complete Let's Play via stream, I think I've done pretty well with it, wouldn't you say?
I'm working on some special multiplayer streams, so stay tuned to my Twitch channel in the near future! Now that I have time to work on things and actually plan, I'm pretty happy with myself, and I think that's already spread to my work ethic as well.
Unrelated to streaming, but our little group has secured tickets to NYCC again this year, so if you're going to be going, let me know and we can try to meet up!
Thursday, May 14, 2015
Monday, May 4, 2015
IT'S GONNA BE MAY! Oh... I'm late.
Hey there guys and gals! I... um, I'm late again, but that's fine, right!? RIGHT?!
Anyway, wanted to catch you guys up with some more stuff that I've been working on! I'm super excited and I feel like I've finally accomplished something since I got my first payout from Fullscreen! I DID SOMETHING RIGHT IN MY LIFE GUYS, ISN'T THAT CRAZY!?
That's not what I wanted to talk to you guys at all about, this post is mostly going to be about Twitch plans for the near future. After I sat down and worked out what I wanted the next steps for YouTube to be, I went ahead and worked on what I wanted the next steps for Twitch to be! I've had that table up on my Twitch channel for ages, but I haven't actually used it, oddly enough. I figured that was something that was drastically in need of a change, so I sat down and schemed... MWAHAHAHAHAHA-- Um. I planned out what I'll be doing.
That's not what I wanted to talk to you guys at all about, this post is mostly going to be about Twitch plans for the near future. After I sat down and worked out what I wanted the next steps for YouTube to be, I went ahead and worked on what I wanted the next steps for Twitch to be! I've had that table up on my Twitch channel for ages, but I haven't actually used it, oddly enough. I figured that was something that was drastically in need of a change, so I sat down and schemed... MWAHAHAHAHAHA-- Um. I planned out what I'll be doing.
I don't know if this is common knowledge or if it's only widely known within Okamigakure specifically, but I'm actually not a huge fan of streaming. I legitimately began streaming because of Tethrinblaze, as he would not stop bugging me about it. Streaming is something that's actually really difficult for me to accomplish as my internet is relatively subpar, and well, y'know, there is my well, "aggressively stupid" family. The likelihood of me having a stream going off without a hitch is almost in the negatives, but, I should probably give it a real shot. I would love to have a community again, like we used to have on the now retired Okamigakure forums...
So how will I accomplish this? Well, first of all I separated and planned different occasions for all of the games that are in the table currently, and then I added a few more. I've got four different planned groupings for streams: Single Player streams, Full game streams, Multiplayer streams, and Co-Op streams. If you've been keeping up with my Twitch channel, you'd see that I've actually decided to tackle Metal Slug first. I've already played through Metal Slugs 1-5 & X as part of the Metal Slug Anthology on the Wii, so that only leaves Metal Slug 6. After that I intend to change games for a while. I'm not sure yet what i'll be doing next, but I plan on streaming every other day for the foreseeable future, at least an hour a day.
So how will I accomplish this? Well, first of all I separated and planned different occasions for all of the games that are in the table currently, and then I added a few more. I've got four different planned groupings for streams: Single Player streams, Full game streams, Multiplayer streams, and Co-Op streams. If you've been keeping up with my Twitch channel, you'd see that I've actually decided to tackle Metal Slug first. I've already played through Metal Slugs 1-5 & X as part of the Metal Slug Anthology on the Wii, so that only leaves Metal Slug 6. After that I intend to change games for a while. I'm not sure yet what i'll be doing next, but I plan on streaming every other day for the foreseeable future, at least an hour a day.
I think there's something about May, but it seems like now is the time everyone wants to start doing things on twitch, whether they be big or small. My buddy VinnyOmerta just began a 120 day stream challenge recently, and one of my favorite YouTubers, STAR_, just decided he was going to start streaming regularly as well for the foreseeable future as well over on his Twitch channel. Now just seems to be the right time to get into it, I guess!
While you already know the games in the table, as you've probably been staring at them for months, hoping I would actually play them, I'm going to let you guys in on some of the other streams I've got planned, in addition to the games in the table. I'll let you guess which of the four groups they're part of though.
What, you thought I wasn't going to be a jerk about it? 
Games not in the table that will be streamed in no particular order:
- Skylanders: Trap Team (PS3)
- Knights Contract (PS3)
- Star Wars Battlefront 2 (PS2)
- Blue Toad Murder Files (PS3 - I'm not sure if this will be a series of videos on YouTube or a stream, we'll see)
- EX Troopers エクストルーパーズ (PS3)