An End to Streaming! Final Stream Friday, Jan 25th!
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My final livestream will be this Friday at 9:15PM Eastern time! If you're interested in getting updated on all things I do across everywhere, subscribe to me on Twitter, Discord, or join my newly created weekly newsletter, which will contain one update per week with everything! https://tinyletter.com/chris-weekly-u... or at my weekly blog: https://www.chrisplaysgames.com/weekly/ For those interested in specific topics: - This channel for gaming content! - Chris Plays Gourmet for cooking (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgG4...) - Chris Produces Gadgets for 3d printing, laser cutting, and more (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ6a...) - Politically Unbalanced for Politics (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkSg...) - Christopher R Schmidt for drone videos (https://www.youtube.com/user/crschmidt) Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/crschmidt Join my Discord: https://discord.gg/SaFs6ar Hit me up on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chrisplaysgam... For the past 3 years, I have focused a lot of my creative energy on creating interesting twice-weekly live streams centered on video games. I always tried to share more than just a passion for gaming: I talked politics, technology, creator tools, and more. I put a ton of passion into those creations, and I loved it, for years, and I’ve built up a small-but-dedicated audience who have kept it fun and interesting for me as I’ve played more than 355 games across 20 different gaming platforms. The problem with live streaming as a platform for me is that the ideas that I have are always half complete thoughts. I get far enough along to talk about them with somebody – whoever is in the chat, usually – but not far enough along that I actually feel like the thought is complete. I end up repeating myself, both as I think through it, and as I share it with more people who might wander in mid-conversation, and not making much progress on finishing thoughts. There have been exceptions to this. One of the videos I’m most proud of on YouTube is my intro to FamiTracker and how the NES does music – but the reason I was able to do this live is that I spent more than 20 hours prepping for that one 45 minute period of my livestream. Today, I wouldn’t be able to do the same thing, because I have drastically ramped up my other commitments, without cutting out something that I feel obligated to do. More and more lately, I find myself wanting to complete those thoughts. In the same way that I am transitioning more from short-form Twitter status updates to longer form blog entries, I want to do the same with the half-baked thoughts featured in my livestreams. Currently, my live streams typically take somewhere between 10-12 hours per week of creative energy: typically an hour or two of work outside of stream, and 4 hours of streaming, twice a week. In the past, I had a lot of passion for this: I felt like I had a ton of retro games that I loved and really want to share with people. These days, however, I find that I no longer have that same energy: I find myself struggling to identify games I want to play, especially ones I haven’t played before. Overall, there’s a lot of energy that I put into these streams, creating and sharing half-baked thoughts, and I want to redirect that time into completing the thoughts: Doing more work on more concise storytelling, both in text and in video. What this means is that I’ll be bringing an end to my weekly gaming livestreams. For three years, I’ve been saying that I am “The Chris Who Plays Games, playing retro games every Monday and whatever I want every Friday at 9:15PM Eastern time” – but it’s time to hang up that hat and work on redirecting that energy into cooking, political advocacy, tech labor organizing, and more. None of this means that I will never stream again – I’ll certainly be happy to consider playing new games that strike my fancy, and I hope to mix in gaming content as part of my ongoing effort to tell completed stories – but it does mean that it will no longer be on a regular schedule like it has been for the past three years. My final regularly scheduled livestream will be a “going away party” on Friday, January 26th at 9:15PM Eastern; join me if you can! My opinions are my own and not those of my employer.
Chris Plays Games
• 6 years ago
All day today, I'm gonna be hanging out with some of my friends who are streaming for Charity as part of the Extra Life Day of streaming! Right now, @Stingray Gaming is playing European Truck Simulator; at 4pm Eastern‪@SoyBomb‬ will be playing Kirby Super Star, tonight at 8pm, I'll be playing Return To Zork, and after that, we'll watch Leif The Revanite playing Stein's;Gate! Tune in and help support these folks playing for the Children's Miracle Network of Hospitals!
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Chris Plays Games
• 6 years ago
Tomorrow, I'll be playing Grand Theft Auto San Andreas. We likely won't make it far into this game, but it's the GTA Game I've probably spent the most time with, so I'm interested to play it with an audience! https://youtu.be/IFeDBUoVyHQ
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Chris Plays Games
• 6 years ago
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