Me and a friend decided to make a channel on YouTube, just cause it seemed like a fun thing to do. The Channel itself isn’t too original. The entire premise of it is that we get super drunk and play video games. I’m really enjoying myself making the videos and all, but I was just wondering if any of you guys out there are content creators. Do you guys got any tips for me on how to stay afloat?
I’m not gonna post a link to the channel, cause I’m not aiming to self promote. Just want to get better at this pet project we have going on. I also don’t want to go through all these hangovers for no reason.
1) Try to stay regular; not necessarily like post everyday, but stick to a schedule.
2) If you already started, you will very soon or after a little while find what parts you are more good at, what kind of things you enjoy more and people like as well. Then you know what to do. It will be more unique if you wish, it's inevitable.
3) You will get better eventually; 'Never stop' is what you can do best if sometime you feel like you can't make some "cool" video like some "cool guy/girl" you saw.
4) What other people will tell you is what they think, and it might, but does not necessarily define your work. Some "almost cool" people like me will try their best to give more "universal" tips and/or feedback, but you almost always know better*.
5) Take inspiration for videos from games you play.
Everything(almost) in short; Try be regular and try to be better, all the time. Stay safe!
Thanks for the response! I've been releasing one video every day, since our sessions get us around 6 episodes or more. We're doing our best to keep a regular schedule. Before we published our first video we had a ton of content we never uploaded cause we just did awful. And we were trying to find our drunk "sweet spot" so we're not just yelling insanities at the mic (my friend). We always aim to improve, and the on thing that I'm constantly trying to be on top of is audio quality. I know how bad audio can be a complete turn off.
It's actually super fun to do. If the show, miraculously, hit's off I might make polls so people try to get us different things. Making this also gives me a chance to actually play through half the stuff in my library.
What games do you tend to play? While this might sound cruel, if you are good at some of the competitive games like CS:GO or w/e, getting a smurf (or not?) and doing that drunk creates some of the best stuff out there. Same with things like Planetside 2, a drunk platoon leader with drunk squad members is possibly the most dumb thing to do, and fun. Things like "broken angel" (everyone in a platoon finds the nearest cliff and jumps to their death, sometimes useful, usually not) get made up and there is a lot of... uhh... story telling. Yeah, story telling.
So we've been keeping it small with platformers, co-op games, side scrollers, etc. We don't have the best set-up right now (my desk surrounded by fluff, 2-3 chairs, and a blue yeti mic), so we can't exactly do game's that require more than one PC. At some point we might do a 2 pc set-up but we're still figuring out how we're gonna make it happen. Before any of that I might actually start playing console games as well, since they're easy to jump on and record.
I've also played competitive games while super drunk. I remember back when I was super into halo (when it was actually fun), and one day I decided not to give anymore f**ks. We got super drunk and went into big team battle and spent the whole match commiting suicide and making our team get a negative score. That was around the time when xbox live started getting infamous for being a cesspit of 12 yr olds who thought they were "MLG pro". That being said, their reaction was priceless.
I'd dare say Lokait has said it all. I've seen a few "drunken" "doing things" channels and a couple were actually very nicely done. For myself, remember to be happy to make fun of yourselves, and never take it serious. If its not fun from the beginning, its work, and that will kill the original concept. Good luck !
Unfortunately we stopped working on it. We just couldn't keep it together. You'd figure bullshitting and playing games is easy. Which it is. But my buddy would constantly just stop the flow of the conversation and read every tutorial out loud. He'd make sure he'd stop and read every text box. And he would get angry if we didn't talk about the game for long enough. Not to mention the way he went about reading stuff was about as interesting as listening to paint dry.
That being said I've just spent a few hundred dollars on a huge flop.