Mah-Dry-Bread

Sounds good, thanks!

Here is my vlog where I talked about 0 AD a bit, thought you might be interested. I've had a few viewers tell me they've since tried and enjoyed the game and they're looking forward to my stream of it! Sorry about the lower than usual microphone quality in that video. It was the middle of a heatwave so I had to have the A/C full blast and that caused the white noise removal to mess with the "S" noises of my voice a bit. Also I had some mild heatstroke.

Alright, it's been about a month and I've had two heatwaves and a throat infection. That was pretty awful. Now that I'm back to 100% though, I think I'm finally ready to start on some 0 A.D. stuff in the coming week. After thinking about it for a while, I'm thinking that perhaps I'll use monday's Vlog to set up a day where I'll stream the game and anyone is invited to play it with me. Since the game is free I'm sure we'll get quite a few people who want to play. I think that would be a good way to garner some interest in the game from the people already on my channel to start.

I might do that soon just so that I get something on the channel 0 A.D. related. The sooner I start attracting people who are interested in 0 A.D. to the channel, the sooner I'll have people around that would want to participate in 0 A.D. related things. It's a shame that I'm having technical issues connecting to the Hitbox servers at the moment, because I bet streaming live matches with fans would be a big hit. My viewers always have a ton of fun when they get to play games with me on the live stream.

That's common on YouTube, that the players will be average. It's usually because they play so many different games on the show that they don't have time to really get good at specific ones. I think what matters most is that they stay consistent. If the channel is based around high quality gameplay, they should take time to focus on a game and become better at it, and if the show is mostly about the personalities or showing off new games, being average at the games is just fine. What matters most is that people find new games through their channels.

Hey everyone, just as an update, I've been having awful internet issues recently and I've been troubleshooting them with Rogers, my ISP. Seems like the cables in the area may have gotten messed up after some high winds. It's delaying my job a bit since I can't stream like this. I still keep this window open every day to make sure I'm easy to context if you have any questions or want to throw ideas at me.

SerugiuHellDragoonHQ emailed back, he just said: " Regarding your private message you sent me via YouTube. I don't know why they sent you to me. I am playing 0 A.D. from time to time but I have no Official link with them. " I get the feeling that means "I'm not interested" considering I never asked for him to have any official link to you guys, but I'll try and clarify it with him anyway.

Mandi is a voice actress and she is fluent in German. I don't know how comfortable she is with the older forms of the languages, but knowing her she is always up to trying new things. Want me to direct her to this thread? Also I'm more than happy to do voice acting if you want me too, but I literally only speak modern English so I'd need a ton of direction, so I'm not sure if I'm what you're looking for. My fiancée is fluent in Arabic and French if that helps.

My composer friends? They don't really do online stuff. They do voice acting for some Flash Games and sometimes soundtracks for indy games, but they don't do YouTuber stuff. If you're looking for voice acting or more music I could put you guys in contact with them, but if we're just talking about video stuff, they don't do that.

I appreciate the offer, I might take you up on it at some point. I use Adobe Audition for all of that stuff, and I've got a couple of friends who are experienced with that type of thing, as one is a composer and voice actress and the other is an audio engineer. It never hurts to get more opinions from experienced people though. Thanks!

Hey, just an update. I may or may not have strep throat coming on. My fiancée has it and I'm starting to feel a bit sick, so I may be getting it but I'm not 100% sure. If so, it might be a week or so before I can record again, so the test tutorial type thing might take a couple weeks. I'll try and get it done much sooner if I dodge this bullet. In the mean time, this is a tutorial type thing teaching the very basics of a game about a year ago: That's the one that ended up netting me the first result on YouTube for the game. Also about half of the first page of videos on YouTube for it are mine, strangely enough. darn fun game by the way for anyone who hasn't played it. Also my audio quality is a lot better now than it was in that video, I've been learning a lot about audio engineering and I just got a new proper studio headset earlier this week to help me with EQ.

I can try, but you'd be blown away at how many YouTubers just don't respond to other YouTubers who are smaller than them. Most just either don't have the time to look into their channel to see if they'd like to hang out and play games, or just don't want to.

I actually have next to no friends in YouTube who are even remotely as well known as I am, and I'm very small fry. I have tons of people on my show who are my friends, but most either don't do YouTube stuff or have under 500 subscribers. I'd love to do big collaborative videos on strategy games like this with other big YouTubers, but I'm a complete nobody. Unfortunately on YouTube, some channels get big after a year and some stay small for over 6 years. I have some very hardcore viewers, just not a ton of them.

I think that's literally the first time I've ever been called a professional. Usually I just get snide comments about not having a "real job" or cynical people who just assume I just want publicity. I feel like I speak for a lot of smaller YouTubers like myself when I say that most of us just love video games and want to give back in some way, and that's why we try to find games that get less attention that deserve more.

I could do that. It helps that I've played those other series so I know where people are coming from. I'm a huge Age of Empires fan, I played quite a bit of Empire Earth 2, and Rise of Nations is criminally underrated.

I'm useless when it comes to modding and making maps, but I could do a video series following the development reports if you'd like. When you say well commentated multiplayer matches, are you more interested in a live commentary while participating in a match, or a shoutcast of a game from an observer perspective? Also just my anecdote, but I personally look up tutorials of games somewhat frequently on YouTube. I tend to play a lot of obscure strategy games and often they don't have the best built in tutorials, so online ones do well. Actually one of my all time most successful video series is a tutorial series on The Guild II: Renaissance that both teaches you how to play, and then teaches in depth on every class. I'm actually the first result on all of YouTube for "The Guild II Renaissance" because of those videos. I'm also the second result on YouTube for "Age of Empires 3". My video that just teaches the basics of The Guild II Renaissance has nearly 50,000 views, and it's not even a well known game. Some people just really appreciate a good video tutorial.

Don't worry about constructive criticism, reading 10,000 YouTube comments a month is part of my job. There is literally nothing you can say that can hurt my feelings, by all means criticise whatever I make to death. Criticism is the most productive form of feedback, it's the only way I can improve. Well, what would you like to see most for a test tutorial? I could do something very basic like one just teaching how to move the camera and order units in a quick 5ish minute video, or I could do a video on general things to help people who have the controls down, but are still pretty new to RTS's and stuff. You know, stressing the importance of building a strong economy, teaching good rules of thumb to keep from neglecting one's military, showing how imporatant control groups can be and convinient ways to set them up, stuff like that. Really I'm up for whatever you guys are, I'm just spitballing ideas. Also if you ever want to talk to me in private either to know me or to plan things, You're more than welcome to contact me on just about anything. Email, Skype, Discord, whatever works best for you.

I could do that. What would you like me to showcase specifically? A test tutorial?

Here is an example of what I mean by a video with commentary on the official YouTube channel: The person very much seems to know what they're talking about, but the gameplay's footage is choppy and they seem a bit microphone shy. Like I said, if I were to be doing videos on the official YouTube channel, it would most likely be tutorials. My typical playthroughs don't seem like they'd fit on a company YouTube channel, but I've done a ton of things over my near 7 years on YouTube, not just playthroughs. I'd probably do guides for individual teams to show what is unique about them, tutorial videos to teach people how to play, and strategy videos to teach people strategies they can learn to start handling harder difficulties. Don't worry, you wouldn't be bound to any streaming service for associating with me. According to my contract, it only applies to me and the only restriction is that I personally as an individual can not host a stream where I play video games on a non Hitbox.tv service. I can still stream anything where I don't play a game on any service, and I can also participate in a stream of any kind on any website that I'm not personally broadcasting. By the way if you're interested, I'm sure Hitbox.tv would absolutely love to have you make a streaming channel with them, with no exclusivity of course. They like to work with indy game studios to promote them, including representing them at conventions to help spread the word. I've got a direct line of contact with multiple of the higher ups at Hitbox and they're all extremely friendly and always looking for devs who want to work with them. Thanks again for your time and consideration, I appreciate it!

Hello! I'm Mah-Dry-Bread, I've been doing video game videos on YouTube for going on 7 years now and currently do it as a full time job. I also do some voice acting on the side. I wanted to offer to help out however I can. I've been a lifelong fan of RTS games and 0 A.D. really caught my interest after a fan told me about the game and I gave it a try. I went to the official YouTube page and saw that not much gets uploaded there, and the few bits of gameplay there seem to be a bit choppy, and seemed to be recorded by someone who wasn't the most comfortable in front of a live microphone. I wanted to offer my help. I'd be interested in doing some regular videos on the game, both for the official channel and for my own channel to help promote the game. I'm not asking for pay, I just want to do my part to help the game grow. Despite being in an alpha state, it's genuinely better than some RTS's that I've paid quite a bit for. I'd be more than happy to do tutorial videos, gameplay videos, live streams, and even voice acting if there is a need for any of that. My only rule is that if we are to do live streams, I can't do them on Twitch.tv. I'm a Hitbox.tv first party partner, so I'm not able to stream video games on other websites. That said, Hitbox.tv has a large international viewer base so it might actually help in spreading the game to people who aren't native English speakers more than it would on Twitch. If anyone involved is interested, just let me know! I tweeted at your official Twitter earlier and the person running it told me to come here to discuss this. Thanks for hearing me out everyone, and have a nice day!