My Twitch Channel

I’ve been creating content online since 2009 from different channels such as BlogTV, YouTube, and Justin.TV. Twitch became a place in which I found a community and I wanted to create a space that’s best described as “sitting in the living room with your brother/sister watching them play games” and have a safe spot for people to hang and vibe.

Managing my own Twitch channel has come with its challenges, both in creating the content, managing the members, and promoting myself.

Overlays

Most of the overlays created on the Twitch Channel myself were pieced together myself using assets from other video games or through commissioned art, such as the Arcade background that I use in a lot of my content currently. Below are some of the overlays I’ve used through the years:

My most recent overlay featuring a Victory Royale. This overlay I lowered the intensity of the background from some input from a survey I gave to my viewers

Overlay using the Arcade background. This pattern was created by Joey BlueJ

I tried my hand at using a webcam overlay with the full screen game in the background at one point.

Using a jigsaw puzzle background shaded blurple, I created an overlay that was a little closer to what I wanted for an overlay

During my Cuphead Overlay I tried my hand at an overlay that was a little simpler and included information like my death counts

I made an overlay based off the Splatoon UI since at the time I was playing a TON of Splatoon 2.

Community

My community is constantly growing and with that comes its own set of challenges. I have a Discord Server in which I can have day-to-day interactions with the community when I’m not live on Twitch. I also have some other attempts like a subreddit and a Facebook group, but Discord seems to be the most used.

Social Media

I have reused my clips from Twitch Streams on social media, like Twitter, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, etc. I also upload all of my Twitch Streams to a separate VOD channel on YouTube to archive my streams. I also in the past have created campaigns to promote different events on my Twitch Stream, examples below:

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Promotion on Splatoon 3 Streams on Instagram

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Stream Schedule post from 2021, used Adobe Express to create

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Post promoting the “Road to Banjo” campaign that I did on my Twitch channel back in 2019, playing all the games that Banjo and Kazooie were in before the release of Banjo in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

The Twitch stream is an ongoing project, and I’m always finding ways to optimize the stream and everything that goes with it when time and bandwidth allow!