From knowing absolutely nothing to understanding just shy of perhaps something. — I started a gaming community called Strats.co in 2014. In the past couple years, it has had its ups and downs. Currently it serves as a pretty great group of mature gaming regulars who frequent our various channels from our Forum to Discord. 1. If you build it, they (may) come Just about every single entrepreneur or startup…

How I learned to love the aimbot and simultaneously hate multiplayer PC gaming — I used to absolutely despise playing a first-person shooter with a controller — partly because I was terrible at it. I had grown up playing Doom and later Quake on the PC. In my Quake days, I was working at a local cyber cafe (remember those?) and we would have…

One of the biggest questions streamers get asked is “how do I get more Twitch viewers?” — As with any question that exists about streaming, your mileage is going to vary in a number of different ways. Each stream is different and how you handle yourself as a personality, entertainer, and broadcaster will always be the deciding factor. …

Lessons learned from Preorder.pro — This is a brief summary of my short experiment with an app called Preorder.pro. It later grew into something more but I thought it would be helpful to someone out there to report on those first 30 days of trying out an idea and then killing it. The Idea The idea was…

TwitchCon is almost here! Here are some useful tips to maximize your time in San Francisco and help you make valuable networking contacts. 1. Your TwitchCon elevator pitch This first step to maximizing your experience at TwitchCon is to perfect your pitch. Who are you? What do you stream? What are your streams like? …

Ready to get into recording video game footage? Maybe you’re looking for a new package to test out. You’ve come to the right place. Gameplay Recording Software These tools will allow you to capture gameplay video on your PC. …

At the core of any good product is quality delivery. For streaming, that means making sure your bitrate, resolution, and frames-per-second is set up correctly. Asking other streamers what they’re running will only get you so far. …

I’m a perfectionist and it has taken many years to unlearn my habits when it comes to getting work done rather than getting it perfect. — Over the years, it has meant that I haven’t completed some projects — especially personal projects where I was the client. I wouldn’t ship until I felt my widget was worthy of bestowing on the eyes of the internet. …

If you don’t know, your community will tell you. — This is the story of the founding of a simple gaming forum called Strats.co and how focused communities can be utilized to deliver ideas for future endeavors. I’m documenting the evolution and creation of a new project here on Medium. This is the first part of that journey. I’ve had…