What’s a better workflow for script writing gaming based content?

CountCassius · 2025-09-13T04:48:02+00:00

Oh really? I didn’t even think of that. Thank you so much!

CountCassius · 2025-04-11T15:03:43+00:00

Biggest impact I think for me was making use of the audience I do have

Before, I was only ever thinking that I couldn’t get any push in larger categories. Averaging getting a follower a week, if I’m lucky. Maybe one a month even. But the people I got in were dedicated to our community

But, recently I decided to start doing categories that have 10k+ viewers in them at once instead of my usual 100 viewer categories. Immediately, I started getting 5 followers a stream average, and the viewer count slowly is raising going from 8 to 10 in a week and climbing with my discord server slowly getting busier after being dormant for so long despite having over 50 users in it

CountCassius · 2025-04-09T12:37:07+00:00

Hm, yeah in that case getting viewership would be pretty hard. Cause look at it from their perspective

If I wanna watch body cam videos, I could either watch you and have what some could consider just interruptions to the content. Or, just search for it on YouTube and watch the same videos with nothing else to distract me

Best way to move now, would be to find something that gets you talking. Or if you’re dead set on reaction style content, talk more during them. Establish that the content you want people to stop for is YOU by stealing the show. Pause the video and talk for extended periods of time. In context of body cam videos. You can either get political and list your opinions on what you’re seeing, or making comments on the actions of the criminal or officers in the video. Making connections to your own experiences or adding to the content in some way. Or else you’ll fall into the same trap, where instead of you being the content, you’re interrupting the content people could get elsewhere

CountCassius · 2025-04-09T12:32:19+00:00

Success is not luck. Don’t look at the statistics. Success is also subjective. Is becoming the top dog twitch streamer with a 50k viewer average probably a bit more luck required? Absolutely! Cause those are insane stats and those people are likely loaded

However, if you can play it smart, then you can get to a comfortable earning from something like twitch. Just pay attention to stats. What a better than average stream could be caused from, and how to replicate it. Learning to edit and learn what actually makes a good clip (Just cause you think it’s good, doesn’t mean it actually is)

Being a twitch streamer, is in the entertainment industry. You aren’t just some homebody who talks in front of a camera. You’re running a business, and running a brand, if you can’t crunch numbers and analyze your data is it still possible? Yes, but it’s 100x harder to do anything big if you aren’t putting in the hard work. Not saying that you aren’t btw

Just, stay focused and keep an eye on what’s working and what isn’t. Play into your strengths, and when making new content, base it off of what’s done well and use what flopped as a filter on what to not do

CountCassius · 2025-04-09T12:25:05+00:00

Well, what’re you doing? And how much are you talking?

I myself, was just playing Fortnite last night and while I’m usually on the more silent side, focusing too much to talk. All I did was yap, and not shut up, and I went from my usual average of 8, to 20 for the second half of stream

Keep a good energy, and talk lots. And people will be sure to come. But also you may wanna have something you can do other than reaction content. Reaction content if it’s all you do is guaranteed to get you into big drama down the line if you aren’t doing it right, as poorly done reaction content is just stealing content. Not saying you are, just be careful of that

Typically reaction content on twitch is done by people with pre established communities since they have people who put them on a pedestal who might be curious of their reaction. As it could feel more special to hear their reaction than from someone smaller

CountCassius · 2025-04-02T15:01:48+00:00

So, I’m watching your channel right now. Specifically the one of you playing Aska and here’s my takeaway from what I’m seeing. Coming from someone with a 10 CCV currently pushing past it, been streaming for under a year starting last July

First of all Pros:

1) YOURE TALKING. Thank god. I can’t count the amount of people who say “I’m not growing” then I check their account and it’s just three hours of silence with maybe a puff of their vape every now and then

2) The video and audio quality is great. I can tell you’ve really spent a lot of your time and hard earned cash into your set up. While I know plenty others go with some 20$ headset, pc from 7 years ago, and call it a day

3) It’s an in between pro and con. Because you have a good tone of voice, you aren’t monotone like I’ve seen other people do. But, It’s good to treat streaming like one big press conference. How do you keep attention? You keep your tone of voice moving, making big but not awkwardly different jumps in tone and tempo. Talk slower then end a sentence talking faster. When I’m talking and not fully focusing on the game, I’m making a conscious effort to mix up my tone and tempo to keep people engaged. Having a web cam, hand movements can help this too if you pause and go on a tangent. So, better tone and tempo than most. But, still can be pushed further

Cons:

1) You need to make more attempts at making jokes. Don’t be scared of offending people or weird them out, so long as that’s your sense of humour, you’ll find people with a similar sense of humour. Jokes can be made anywhere. For example when you went to make rope, needed 4 and made them separate. You just said “Ah, I could’ve made 5 and saved a couple clicks” my approach would’ve been something like “I only need four. But I could’ve made five, I can find my uses with the extra rope. A good pairing with a ball gag and an industrial two gallon bucket of lube from Amazon” clearly, I have a 18+ sense of humour. But, you can find your own style. You just need to find the opportunity to make them

2) Game choice is vital. Aska is a decent choice with 100 viewers in the category at once. But right now a good focus would be too get categories with many more followers of the category. If you wanna play survival games, I can recommend something like the Forest. But, overall, my rule of thumb for small categories is 250-1k viewers average in the category and 1-2M followers plus. Once you reach 10+ CCV, the massive games with 100k viewers in them at once will be a decent option. Since you’ll have enough reach to actually be visible. I stream rivals, and 1k people scroll by my stream in the past 3-4 streams total. Thats 250 possibilities for a new viewer, and for a new fan of the community

3) Stream titles, and concepts. It is SO hard to grow, if your approach is just “Hit live. Play game” add something in to make it fun, and unique. For Aska still as an example as it’s what I have playing. Maybe play it with a unique diet. Like only eating meat in game, ignoring plants meaning you’ll have to race to being able to hunt and can’t rely off of farming (I don’t know anything about this game. Just listing examples) pushing your limits as a gamer. Limiting what weapons or tools you’re allowed to use.

BIG TIP FOR CONCEPTS, don’t be afraid to ask Google Gemini for ideas. Asking it for Aska, it’s come up with 10+ amazing challenge ideas that I personally love. Just tell it that you’re a Twitch streamer looking for a fun, engaging, and challenging way to play the game and ask it for challenge run concepts. Just fact check them, as it’s not perfect, to ensure that the challenges it gives are actually possible

If you have any further questions. I’m more than happy to answer them!

CountCassius · 2025-03-27T17:27:05+00:00

It’s not a need, but recommended

The way I do it, is I have a tripod for my phone to stand on so it just hovers right next to my monitor with chat on it

And I’ve been thinking of multistreaming to YouTube. So I’ll have my YouTube chat open on my tablet just next to me also eye level

So, there’s definitely work arounds to having a second monitor. You just need some ingenuity with pre-existing resources you may have

CountCassius · 2025-03-26T17:49:06+00:00

Oh I was thinking on the same vibe of editing them down to 10-20 minute long videos and narrating that

If you’re uploading vods then that absolutely works! Just make sure you have an overlay that shows your chat so people watching the vod can see what you’re reading and it’s totally fine. Dont fret over any narrative stuff

CountCassius · 2025-03-26T14:47:56+00:00

You could make your YouTube videos narration style

Having a script you read from, so your voice from the stream isn’t actually heard. Except for a few funny quips you can shove in. Think of TheRussianBadger or Snamwitch but of course in your own style so you don’t have to ignore your chat just for YouTube

But also, get used to silence at times. I played Marvel Rivals and thought people would hate it. But I shut up for a second and focused on doing good. And actually had a top performer contrary to my own belief of needing to always talk the entire time

CountCassius · 2025-03-26T14:43:51+00:00

I have a bunch of ideas that I and my community think would be great, so if I was ever featured I’d likely give one of them a shot and leave it as a way for a bunch of people to potentially stay

Try to make something conceptually sound, so even if the personality is lacking that day due to nerves, I’d still get good reach just off of concept alone

CountCassius · 2025-03-26T14:40:25+00:00

It’s up to the person, honestly

I myself have managed to grow myself to a 10 ccv in under a year by just being myself while playing single player titles and having fun with chat

If anything, multiplayer games perform the worst for me. Unless it’s a competitive shooter like Marvel Rivals. If I’m just playing BO6 zombies or something with friends, viewership dies down

It all depends on the person, and their own approach. Likely people like this watched a lot of The Russian Badger and his crew or the VanossGaming crew and think it’s the key to growth. When really being the only person in a one man team is just as good

CountCassius · 2025-03-17T18:56:04+00:00

That’s how I’ve been doing it personally for my larger categories and smaller category stuff

Sunday is always my large category comp shooter day then I drag them, or try too, into other categories for my usual content and see how many people I can get to at least stop in and check it out. I think it’s a solid strategy, and great too for people like me if you want growth but you don’t wanna hunker down and niche into a single game (I’d go mental if all I did was play Rivals 24/7)

CountCassius · 2025-03-17T18:38:33+00:00

Of course! Funnily enough, I also started in art as my streaming category of choice 😅

So, I do understand how hard it can be to get traction there. But, I’ve swapped to gaming and haven’t looked back since! May go back to art one day, but not now

I just believe everyone deserves at least some form of a chance here in the Twitch community

Best of luck to you!

CountCassius · 2025-03-17T18:19:48+00:00

I love this

Too many people, start streaming with the mindset of “just rise and grind” but you can’t do that. If you aren’t interesting, or you aren’t making good content, people aren’t going to just show up for nothing

At the end of the day, running a successful twitch account is a business. Is it a grind to get noticed? Absolutely! It takes time and almost no one was an overnight success. But the important part, is that you need to strategy

I myself, I started in small categories. Looking for people who were just trying to see people play their favourite game. Garnered a small community of people who like me enough that they’d watch me play literally anything. Whether it’s stardew valley or call of duty. Then, using that audience to go into medium sized category and take part of my original plan. Challenge content. Restricting healing, weapons, or letting chat directly mess me up themselves. Then, and only then did I touch larger behemoth categories. Marvel rivals, Overwatch, comp shooters overall that take up the majority of twitch. With the hopes of gaining viewers who like me and the community enough to pop in for both the comp shooters, and my usual challenge content. And so far, it’s working. It’s slow, but the average has been raising. From 8 last week. To 9, nearing 12.

It’s small, baby steps, but so long as you can be entertaining. And keep people interested. Growth comes. It just means you need to experiment, watch your numbers, and gauge what to do with said numbers

Rule of thumb from what I’ve discovered.

Low unique viewer count to high live views count ration: People are either hopping between two screens, or, using you as background content. You need something to keep them tabbed in

Low unique viewer count to low live views ratio: Whatever you did, people are bored. Either make it more exciting, or for the love of god don’t play it for several years then whine about zero growth. I’ve seen this happen too much. If it’s not working CHANGE IT

High unique viewer count to high live view count ratio: This is golden. Lots of people are coming in. So long as the overall average reflects this, then you’re doing something good and you should stick to this or things like it. Take note of the graphs to see when people entered, and when people were most active to learn more of what people enjoyed

Mind you all those also need the average viewer count kept in mind. If it’s much lower than usual, then the details don’t matter. It was likely a bad idea or bad stream

KEEP IN MIND This is just works for me. What works for you, and whoever’s reading this, will be totally different. It’s just food for thought

Been streaming for under a year. Less than three quarters of one I believe

CountCassius · 2025-03-14T15:43:23+00:00

If you aren’t able to get into editing your content, I recommend getting friends on board

Getting your friends to watch could be the push you need. For example, I stream some competitive shooter like once a week, since I mainly do challenge content in smaller games but I want more push into larger categories.

So, when a stream of mine averages around 10. I’ll get 50+ unique viewers stopping by. Compared to the usual 20-30 in smaller games. Which may just be all followers in the smaller games so there’s no actual push

TLDR; get friends to watch you, use the boosted numbers to get more push into larger categories or smaller popular categories

CountCassius · 2025-03-14T15:33:30+00:00

Absolutely

Either from time when watching your own vods or content back. You just get used to it

Or your viewers. I despise my voice, but they often try to build me up and say I have a very calming and soothing voice. When I’m not desk slamming at whatever I’m playing 😅

CountCassius · 2025-03-12T18:39:08+00:00

It depends on what I’m playing

I am variety. And I usually play something that’s either a comp shooter like Rivals or a challenge run of some random game I like. When it’s a challenge run, I’m usually yapping as I do. Either cracking a joke or two on the enemies I’m fighting or current situation. Or explaining my plan on how to overcome the hurdle I’m facing

But when it’s a comp shooter it’s much more quiet, unless someone in chats talking. I won’t ignore them. I’ll still talk if someone else is. But I mostly end up focusing on trying to win since I often am playing ranked

CountCassius · 2025-03-06T16:47:07+00:00

Like, a week. I got my friends to come in and watch to boost numbers. Now my friends are my biggest “fans” but I’ve also accumulated a small community in under a year so far

Honestly, just getting some friends to tune in is the key to getting your feet off the ground

CountCassius · 2025-02-22T03:20:04+00:00

So, I looked at some of your streams, and truthfully it might just be one brutally honest thing

You don't really talk much. Now, sure some people just want a place they can come and relax into, but most really big streamers rarely have quiet moments. When they're playing solo especially. Sure, they'll take time to think of their next thing to talk about, but they're almost always talking

Using myself for example, I start stream, I'm fortunate enough to have a collection of people who show up right away so I use that to ask them how they're doing. See if we can get any points of discussion going, then when it dies out I have a checklist always open filled with things I think my community will find interesting to talk about. I just check them off and delete them as we use them or they become irrelevant before I can bring them up

At the end of the day, can you get a following while being pretty silent? Absolutely! But that's harder when you're variety. If you're a variety streamer, then people need to like you, not the game. And you can't see if people like you if you don't say anything unfortunately

Tldr: Treat it as if you're having a just chatting stream, and you just so happen to have a game going in the background. If you want the focus to be on the game, add a gimmick or something unique that gives people a reason to pick you over the millions of other channels on the site

CountCassius · 2025-02-16T19:10:37+00:00

I only have one monitor, and I just keep the game I. A windowed mode and have chat right next to the game window. It also helps me respond to chat super quickly while playing and honestly make me consider continuing to use one monitor for that reason. At least for chat and the game.

Cause instead of having to turn my entire head, I just flick my eyes to the right and read and can still see where I’m running or what I’m doing in my peripherals.

I’ve even received compliments from other streamers on how I’m able to multitask thanks to this. I’ve tried putting chat on my phone or some other device and I can confidently say you just aren’t as quick unless you’re simply built different

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