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Yu-kai interviews Blitz, veteran content creator, and VR enthusiast, and asks about how he started his career in content creation and his journey since.
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everyone and welcome to another episode of vive influencers today we have a very special
guest blitz who has a very popular youtube channel where he
plays lots of games all vr games a lot of other very exciting games among
us lots of things in minecraft how are you today doing good i’m doing quite well thanks for having me thank you
so why don’t you tell tell us about yourself and your channel sure um so i’m blitz i started
i’m a professional engineer to begin with i started i went to school to become an engineer i
did that for nine years and towards the end of that um towards the end of that career i started doing youtube on the side and
i always thought um i had i’d have two monitors open on my desk and on my left monitor i’d be
doing my work and on the right monitor i’d be watching people play minecraft or do other games and i always thought like why don’t i try to
do that because i can be funny i can play games and i could try to figure out how to
record it so i did and um about three year overlap and then
i resigned as an engineer and became a full-time content creator in i think it was 2017 um
2016 or 2017. i can’t remember the exact exact date now but about four years now
i’ve been doing youtube full-time and i do a variety of games from mobile the old flash games the newest
some triple a’s um vr pretty much anything and everything that catches my eye
how did you pick your uh first few games i just copied what other people were
doing it seemed to work um the yogscast the old yogas cast channel was one of those
that were doing a lot of indie variety games and there were so many in 2016 2015 there
were so many really amazing indie games that came out and that was back when steam was heavily
curating and all that fun stuff so there’s a lot of really really cool games that i just kind of caught on to and my channel grew
from surfing from one game to the next how do you balance um basically making content that
you feel like is trending people want to see versus just things you want to do
expressing yourself that’s that’s the hardest um because if i were to play the games
that i always wanted to play myself i wouldn’t the the market cap for those games is so much lower than
a variety of games that i play now so um kind of understanding my audience trying
to figure out what they want to see and then moving uh pulling in other games to that content too
i like to do a lot of times like cross games if i find a sandbox game that i can add other content to and mix like
minecraft with something else that’s popular and trending so yeah it’s tough it’s a tough balance to
make content uh that the audience is always going to be interested in
what was the beginning days like for starting your channel and as you know a lot of uh people want to
be youtubers and majority of them don’t get a big following dozens or hundreds of people
you know how you know at the beginning how was it like and you know did you have big
aspirations of your channel or you just kind of want to do it for fun you know it was it was all for fun to begin with um
and i did look at your profile too and i saw you played a lot of the old blizzard games um diablo 3 you remember diablo 3 when
it came out and it had the real money auction house yes so i made like 130 on that and i was
like i can make money playing video games and um i tried finding other ways so it was
kind of cross where i wanted to learn a new skill and have fun doing it and then i moved from basically
uh learning the skill into realizing that there could be a career there yeah i think that’s a big thing with the
uh people thinking making money from video games in general esports um like the money you made 130
from playing a game sounds like a lot but if you consider the hourly time you put into it that hourly wage is
probably not that impressive oh no not at all it was it was a lot of
grinding um to sell a few items i did get one item that was like 75
um but it was yeah it was below way below minimum wage for what i did but it was fun like i was
having fun playing a game so why not make a little coin on the side
yeah for sure and of course later on there’s you know there’s more and more opportunities to
actually make a living with gaming whether it’s creating content or competition all that stuff so
it’s nice that the industry became more mature um at that point what was the moment where
you suddenly felt like hey this is catching on this is probably going to be a big thing that’s going to
change your life when you’re doing your youtube um i had about 400 000 subscribers at that point and i
was i would not recommend to anyone to do the path that i took um working a full-time job having a wife
and a son at home and trying to do youtube on the side i remember there was one week where i had literally
27 hours of sleep and seven nights total so it was averaging under four and a
half hours of sleep a night and it was really bad so my wife and i sat
down and i said just give me six months and let’s see what happens at the end of
six months and my channel grew from 400 000 to i believe 1.2 million subscribers
and i changed the way that my my videos were produced uh went from straight
let’s play videos to more edited highlighting multiple games rather than just doing long series of
individual games and at the end of that six months um they offered me a promotion
at my job i had my engineering job to be a supervisor and i sat down to schedule the interview
with boss and i said i’m gonna decline this interview and here’s my one month resignation notice
and his face would just absolutely sheet white lost all color and um i started doing youtube full-time
i will say that it’s quite impressive that during those six months where you’re trying to push your your channel
you you did such a good job at your work also that you had this promotion opportunity so that
is pretty impressive yeah i had a a perfect eval at the end of the year and i i know i was a good engineer
but it was i couldn’t do both and i started when i was young as well so i
still had a layover period where about five years where i wouldn’t damage my career to leave the
engineering so i could come back and still retire on time so i just wanted to try it out and i was kind of bored so moved on from
that what did you want to do when you were growing up
it’s a good question um i always thought of being an engineer
i was i always took the math and science classes i always loved it and enjoyed it but as soon as i was done with my homework i
would play video games so uh it kind of moved on from that where yeah i always just
wanted to have fun and be creative and explore and build things and
now i do that digitally rather than physically yep and you mentioned your uh one of the
big things was going from 400k subscribers to your 1.2 but obviously getting to 400 000 is
already a very difficult achievement most people don’t get there so was there a time in the early days where you feel like hey
this is actually going from just a fun hobby to it’s going to be picking up to become a serious channel
kind of like a lot of people watching you know i honestly never look back and saw what
i had i never sat down and reflected on what was going on i just
worked and worked and worked and worked and worked and then once i finally resigned my engineering
job and sat down and looked back i recognized what i was missing out on because i was overdoing too much
so yeah i never recognized it i saw the paychecks that
were coming in and um it kind of dawned on me that’s why i even had the idea to quit
but there’s always the uncertainty with online content creation like one day
that with gantz culture the way it is or you know youtube accidentally doing something or a channel getting
hacked like it couldn’t cut your knees out from under you and
i think we kind of hit that with just globally this last year with the virus how
a lot of industries were absolutely gutted and it changed how everything works and surprisingly this
last year has been really good because people were stuck at home so that’s kind of changed the way i’ve
thought of it of youtube not really going anywhere and it’s becoming more legitimate in
a lot of industries now too yeah online entertainment is uh is essential during
times of crisis and covenant right yeah what was your first experience uh using
vr oh man i don’t remember the first one uh i okay
i remember the first time i ever heard of it uh when i was a kid back probably
mid-90s we went to a science museum and there was a demonstration about vr uh
and it was like an old giant clunky headset and they put it on a couple people and they walked around
and basically a open sandbox but later on
the first headset i got was htc vive and there’s a couple games that i played right away i know one of them was uh
crazy fishing vr i always liked fishing so i thought let’s go fishing in vr and it was a lot of fun i saw some of your
videos there my most popular video on my channel is crazy fishing
yeah which is a little surprising sometimes it’s like like have people want to watch someone
else play a fishing game right yeah so the old adage of like
parents telling their kids well why are you playing a sports game like go out and play sports with your friends
or then you can ask the dad why the dad is sitting down on the couch watching a soccer football game instead of going
out and doing that with his friends but yeah it’s a it’s fun like vr is a totally
different experience what excites you about 2022
for yourself and for the world in general man 2022. yeah i have a hard time looking
this year yeah i have a hard time looking we’re actually starting a few different projects here
at the office i’ve got a handful of people that work with me um starting up a bunch of different side
things we have a 3d printing channel that’s starting next week um we’re doing
the shorts youtube’s always finding some sort of new feature surprise that they’re rolling out so kind of just
growing on what we have and then adding a few other side things to it 3d printing’s one
podcast is another helping other people learn to do youtube and kind of maybe a
mentoring system so still need to flesh that out in my head but
this uh 3d printing niche as a new channel um is that a passion interest you have
or one of the people you’re working with uh both so i’ve always liked the idea of it i
mean it’s the new technology you go from you know digital online content to
newspaper the the people below me in our office building was radio station and now their peak
listenership is lower than my lowest time of viewership during
the day so and i think that kind of works with 3d printing too
is you move from old systems into a new system and then new technology
is getting a lot more consumer friendly now so 3d printing is just fun in general
yeah i think 3d printering i don’t know if you’re familiar with gartner’s hype cycle but it has that cycle same with vr so
there’s things where it just got really really hyped up and everyone is investing money into it and uh and then they call then they have
a term i think it’s called the the trough of disillusion where it’s like oh it’s like over invested it’s not solving
all our problems yet it’s just a hype buzzword and then it drops to the bottom and then it slowly elevates black
back again you know the uh something of the light men says okay people are actually figuring out the
real use cases and it’s actually growing a more sustainable rate and i think um
you know 3d printer back in the day just like vr right had its big hype moment and it’s like hey maybe it’s not ready yet um and now it’s
building that so i don’t i haven’t i haven’t looked at a 3d printer for a while are there any really exciting things that happen
that’s been developed in the last three years yeah they’re medical technologies is going
really strong in it um i just heard recently that they’re ct scanning like hip joints and then
getting a build of it and then 3d printing out of titanium the new hip sockets and then using that as a
transplant so it’s an exact model of the person’s hip bone rather than just trying to
come up with something that works um but i mean even for consumer level stuff they’ve
made wood filament now so you can make wooden sculptures and they’re starting to get into
dissolvable so you can create things that dissolve so there’s all sorts of really
interesting technologies that are blossoming from it do you see uh explore a intersection between 3d
printing and vr oh that’d be interesting um i think the problem with that is the
time with with vr like you’re in it um it’s real time with 3d printing some of
the prints take 13 14 100 hours to complete and watching something for that long
might not be good uh but there are things like even just controller stands uh headset stands that
you can build which help out a lot because there’s not really that many products coming out from the
the hardware companies that are for storage so that’s kind of one way to do it yeah
i think potentially in the long term like 10 20 years out we’re talking about
vr connected to the metaverse nft blockchain and potentially that has an opportunity
to say hey when you have this nft it gives you exclusive right to print something out via your 3d printer
right and you can obviously license that so other people get printed out but
so i think there’s some kind of interesting way where it can all connect together the other thing is um what what
blows my mind is that i feel like humans are still so behind on material sciences you know
when we look at a spider right and i think most people know that spiders their silk is supposedly stronger than steel right but
what they don’t think about as often is these spiders they just eat insects right they just consume
protein and they just spit out these the steel material at mass every day at room
temperature right right it’s like we have a machine and we just throw a chicken in it and then suddenly like
elastic steel comes out every day very quickly and you know we we we are not even close to
understanding how to create something like that you know right we can’t even really effectively create
you know something where it absorbs sunlight water and then produces and co2 and produces oxygen
right that’s not even something we can effectively make so i i do think it is interesting how
much closer to it the understanding has become now though rather than you think like even a
hundred years ago how much difference in technology and these things like there is hardly
running water and electricity in a lot of areas and how far we’ve advanced as a society since then
so adding things like the the vr and 3d printing to it and even um
using um genetically modifying i’ve heard goats to to produce spider silk within
their milk like there’s some crazy cool things that are coming up yeah and i’m just wondering if uh you
know 3d printing taking dozens of hours to print something will
uh will will it be massively better than that in in the next five eight years or
we we anticipate it’s to still be pretty slow um cool let’s go back to your channel so
were they were there days that you just felt extremely discouraged and just wondering like why are you
still doing this or if you should keep doing it and if there are those days how do you deal with that yeah um when i had about 5 000
subscribers i was ready to quit uh i was ready to throw in the towel and say it’s not
worth it it’s the market’s over saturated and you got to remember this was like 2015.
market’s oversaturated there’s too many channels youtube’s never going anywhere and i got a comment um
from somebody that and i don’t even remember their name now but it was basically like hey i love your
videos keep it up just something that i get 200 times a day now but something about
that back when i was just early on and starting how how much different it felt so that was one
time there and with the overwork and exhaustion in that last that final overlap between
engineering and youtube there were times there where it was very difficult to get up and go
to my day job to come home to do my night job so there were a couple times there’s also
uh just kind of recently where you kind of get into a lull where there’s no interest in games coming out
and nothing too exciting to play just like man i’m gonna go find you know
minecraft mod number 700 and and play it or you know those are always fun but it’s
not really something you could sit down and sink hours and hours into to actually play so there is the difference
between creating content you enjoying creating content for your audience to enjoy
i can pretty much enjoy any game i can play so make sense that day that you quit your
job so you can focus on on your channel um how did that feel and where you’re like
all right now i’m just gonna every day for the next i’m just on fire on my youtube channel or you’re like hey i’m gonna take a
small break and just go out and relax like how did it took that experience it took three months
of of recovery i guess uh mental health recovery i was
getting extreme nightmares at night of kids that would come up to me like in an interrogation chair and a kid would
just materialize and say your channel’s nothing you’re gonna die i was like
[Music] but yeah um after both three months uh it turned around and it
started to get into the groove and it was a lot of learning um even just editing i have zero background
in audio and visuals thumbnail creation making unique titles
and all sorts of things there’s so many things to learn but once you get in a routine of it and
looking back to see what’s worked before and what’s working for other people then it turns out pretty good you haven’t
learned those skills uh prior to quitting your job
yeah somewhat um and i mean i was learning over time and i did take some graphic design in
high school but nothing formally i see so before that i mean again
building to 1.2 million subscribers right that was you know people would assume you already
mastered a lot of those technical things but it sounds like you didn’t share good content and then afterwards you’re like hey i’m a full-time pro i
really got to pick up these things and then you have three months too so i’ve got
where is it right behind me here my first microphone i still have behind me and that’s like a
that’s all i could afford is like a 35 microphone and i swear it could pick up a mosquito
buzzing from a mile away as it picks up everything and you can go back and listen to my old videos back then and
how bad the audio quality is but i didn’t know any different i didn’t register it
i didn’t think of it and that’s the first thing i did was bought this new mic
so yeah there’s a lot of a lot of learning and i think if you sit
down and you look at every video as a learning experience you look at the
analytics you see where people stopped watching it you look at what the click-through rate was maybe the topic of the video was wrong
or maybe it was really really right and if you keep moving forward rather
than sitting back and looking at what you had in the past just keep
growing and constantly getting better at what you’re doing so yeah that’s that’s tough
uh it is hard when you have zero experience doing it but the only way you get experience is by
continuing to do it yep you mentioned the uh you know when
things were down and one positive comment just really lift up your spirit
and and was the field to push you forward um how do you deal with negative and
troll comments especially in the early days because as you know youtube is this unfiltered anonymous
place where just people just manifest all the worst parts about themselves and um like so how do you deal with those
and early on when people just say of course now you probably deal with it in a much better way right
early on i found the youtube comment filter and i just started putting words in
there so anytime someone said you’re copying such and such channel i would just add the name of that channel
to my filter so i would never see it i’ve got something like a hundred thousand comments that are blocked
right now i could pull up the analytics and there’s there’s well over a hundred thousand
comments that i’ve never read and they’re toxic and they’re full of cursing and
spam comments that get past youtube’s automatic filters so that’s the the first way i did it
and just doing that and also recognizing that the people behind the comments like
you’re you’re producing free content like they aren’t paying for it you don’t owe them anything
but you’re still trying to entertain them so um the com combination of recognizing that
you don’t know this person and they don’t know who you are plus banning all of the bad words really
helped out that’s a very good uh tip just
utilizing a type of a function of youtube to just do it and that is the mental trick i’ll be
honest too one of my favorite things to do is banning someone
i i love it um there’s toxic comment i click down and hide that user they can
make all the comments they want to and they will never know they’ll see their comment on there but they will
never know that you didn’t read it um it’s it’s just a guilty pleasure so
so they will see their own comment but no one else will see their comment right or yep you hide their comment so
so there’s another little bubble of of them being a troll but it’s like an illusion
yep it’s fun there’s just something very satisfying about sitting back and knowing that they can
vent all they want to in their own little echo chamber i would think this imaginary scenario
that’s more satisfying they do this trolling for like years and years and years and then one day they finally realized
that no one ever saw any of it and they just wasted such a big passion part of their lives
i see on other social media too or people come in and be like youtube is suppressing the comments on this video
and really like it’s not suppressing comments at all there’s just probably caught in the automatic filters
because you’re being toxic so i think it’s funny yeah and of course their toxic comments get
filtered so they get upset and they could go somewhere else to be toxic look how bad this thing is it it does
it’s all about blocking things out well let’s move on some uh some more of
the positive stuff so what would you say is the most exciting highlight moment in
your youtube career that moment where it’s like just happy for so long jumping for joy you know there’s there’s
a one of the pr people that works for kind of a double a indie studio out of london
um and i’ve met them it’s one of my favorite studios to work with they’re great they make great games and
um his son is autistic and i met him um at
i forget why i was in london no is is e3 they were in e3 in la and he’s like hey
i bought one of your shirts i want you to sign it so my son can have it and it was like
this thing where you know we make this content we recognize it from behind the scenes and
and his son couldn’t even wear the shirt because of the way it felt on his body but he just wanted
my logo on a shirt signed by me and then he it’s one of his most cherished possessions
so i think that’s cool there’s a lot of i get a lot of emails to you from fans um thanking me uh more personal
stuff um that’s why i have like a lot of the fan mail behind me here of things that people have made for
me just remind me that you know i really do you could have a really bad day and then
at the end of the day you can still go and try to escape watching my videos um
i know it’s it’s small and it might sound cheesy but it’s kind of nice that it doesn’t matter where you are who you
are like videos will always be there for you to watch so yeah bringing joy people’s life i
mean that’s what people work so hard to do i find happiness and joy so right yeah youtube is uh and videos
is uh is a pretty reliable way and easy way to just bring some more delight in your day
yep yeah uh what’s something that you are proud of in your life that isn’t obvious
to others [Music]
it’s a tough one i mean my family obviously i got a beautiful wife and two great
kids today is actually my son’s last day of kindergarten so that’s kind of cool it’s amazing to
see like the family unit growing up together and how great the kids are and um just the ups and downs
of the family i guess that’s one of my proudest things that’s great i have uh twin daughters symphony and
harmony and they’re cool they turned uh they’re three and a half now and so they’re already debating me on so
many things i have to really watch my logic when i talk to them i have to be consistent like they’ll catch me if i’m seeing something consistent to
something i said a few days ago so it’s fun like my kids are they’re six
and three and they’re complete polar opposites my son is passive and bright
like you can tell he’s a thinker and my daughter is super aggressive and
she’ll one of her favorite things to do now she’ll run up to you and just grab onto my neck and say daddy i’m not gonna
stop unhugging you and she will latch on for like 15 minutes straight you just have to walk around with her um
yeah and she’s three yep that’s a lot of persistence for you know they’ll say like i’ll never do something but then
after a minute they’ll give up but no she’ll hang on for 15 20 minutes just not letting go wow
so that’s great sounds like as long as she set her mind on something she’s got a path of success in front of her she’s
very driven uh what’s a piece of content that you feel very proud of and you thought it was great when you’re
making it but then it wasn’t as appreciated as as you hoped it would be that you
just want people to look at it more yeah i think the coolest project we’ve been in
uh is this one um the the caterpillar video that’s the channel trailer it’s uh
caterpillar flew me out and my editor videographer to illinois and we played pac-man with
real skid steer loaders at remote control 6 500 pound machines that we had remote control over
in a 250 foot by 250 foot pac-man board and uh it’s gotten good reception um
but it’s always like the proud moment where you just want to see a couple more people watch it so actually that was the video
that kind of legitimized my job to family members where they finally recognized that it’s
you know it’s something sustainable if caterpillar likes your channel then of course you
have a good channel right right yeah well where do you think vr would be in 10 years well
you know there’s a lot where i see vr going is more of the experiences
and less of the hardware side i think we’re kind of in a stage now where
there’s been a lot of really really good indie games that have come out we had bone works last year
[Music] and of course half-life alex that really changed the whole landscape of it
and then oculus is working on a lot of the big
the big experiences too and i really think that’s where it goes um i did a video for the
climb too at a local climbing wall where i i climbed the wall and integrated that
into the video playing the game and if we have more experiences like
that where we can take real world events and bring them to people who can’t really get into that position like
i i don’t expect my grandma to be up 1500 feet onto the side of a mountain
climbing it but putting her in vr and having her go through the same motions and
experiencing something that she would never have been able to do in her life and that’s that’s where i see vr going in the
future um and you can even do that with educational settings and and other
things too where you’re connecting people with uh dreams
that they never knew that they had that can be realized in a virtual world so speaking of which
[Music] for people who have elderly family members who don’t really
know much about vr and let’s say you have like three to four minutes or less to just say hey put this on and
be it wow and amazed what would you think is the best content for those three four minutes
gorham the uh the gladiator arena game like it’s it puts you into a
completely fictional world with over-the-top gladiator battles and and i’ve put my
own family members in there i put my mother-in-law in there and watched her get annihilated by another
gladiator and just that experience like it shows how
cool vr really is but yeah goran is the one i gorn and beat saber are the two that i
usually put people into if they’re testing it out do you think you’re uh in law being uh defeated so brutally
would be like wow this is amazing i want to do vr more or like wow that was traumatizing maybe i should stop uh
yeah both uh she enjoyed it um she could see the draw of it and how
interesting it was my wife if she plays she goes into beat saber all the time
and and that’s a really good one too of you know you always have that feeling and the progression of wanting to get better and better and better at it and
the songs are catchy and fun and yeah those to the two that usually put
people in right so we’re gonna wrap up soon last question for you
what are some top unexpected lessons you have acquired in the past three years
things that you didn’t expect that you would learn going into into it could be three to five years
maybe three to five years okay um yeah
i think the the biggest thing for i guess my business and if you look at youtube as a business
rather than a hobby um that’d be one of the things is recognizing that it’s an actual
career and then you can have a successful career doing it
right here in my office we’ve got four employees and those are other
unexpected things of having to understand taxes and payroll and accounting and
there’s a lot more to it than just recording a video and scheduling it like keeping track of receipts and invoices
and making sure there’s money in the bank account so that’s the whole side
and i think the other one too is if you i heard a stat lately
uh that was something like 30 of all middle schoolers their career hasn’t even been created
yet and i know you work a lot with the gamification and i remember when that was starting to
first become popular how um you know we have a lot of things
right now that are are so cutting edge and so new that another 10 years like those new things now are going to
be old you think i remember back when facebook started when i was a freshman in college and now
you know it’s more of for middle-aged people to use rather than teenagers and college kids so
i think that’s another lesson i’ve learned is to kind of keep track of what’s going on in
the future and you know it’s not too late to make a career change if you’re going to work hard and take care
of it and if you know what you’re doing but also recognizing that
it might not work out and always having a backup plan too yeah i do think that uh to the younger
generation facebook is for me for us like the yellow page phone book right it’s just like how how
grown-ups keep in contact yeah it’s useful but it’s not that interesting i think we had to have uh a
dot edu email address just to sign up for facebook yeah like it was invite only at the time and
yeah so i was i was at a ucla 2004 and that’s uh we did have to have edm
remember when it opened up to every school everyone was rushing in right because of that scarcity like you’re not allowed now you’re allowed i never want
to go yeah but you know people asked me if i majored in gamification
and i was talking well no there’s there’s no such field when i started right now now some schools have it and they’re
using my book as as either textbook or supporting text but you know
back then it was just patch for games and thinking about how games could uh make the real world better you know
learn from design and so like you said um a lot of a lot of
real careers out there aren’t created and might not even be imagined at this point and i think
that goes also to your previous point you made that’s very interesting which is you know you talk about the youtube
where you feel like oh there’s so many channels saturated right and i feel like there’s so many things people feel like
it’s saturated everyone’s doing it but then there’s still that opportunity if you come out you have good content it’s
unique you’re passionate about it you’re persistent uh you still stand up i mean inst when instagram became big and sold i was
surprised because like people have been doing photo apps and and websites for you know i feel like that’s a fully
saturated field right and then you have a company 12 people came out and just did this thing and sold for a billion dollars
it’s like hey you know if you do a better job than everyone else nothing’s saturated it seems there’s a
book kind of in that same sphere that you’re in called outliers by malcolm glad gladwell i think it is yeah
and uh they forced me to read that as part of the leadership development program at my engineering job and i looked at it and i said if i’m
going to become an outlier here in this company i’m going to have 20 hours extra work a week for a three to five percent raise
and that’s kind of that same time where i was like i just made 170 dollars selling
armor on diablo 3. why don’t i try to become an outlier in
a different area and that’s what i did um and i think my channel is kind of an
outlier it’s one of the like i play a lot of indie variety games and my channel is one of the top
in that market so that’s pretty cool like actually do indie games specifically go
to you and say hey you know we know you like indie games and we have one would you be interested
i get about 30 requests today matt 30 per day quite a bit yeah and how do you pick and choose
between those 30 per day uh title and the topic
um actually a lot of comes down to the camera angle too where some games just can’t be presented
they might be amazingly fun to play but um having to understand what my audience wants and having a good feeling
of that now after doing it for a long time uh seven years so yeah it’s
it’s it’s tough because you see the the work and the the effort that these people put into
the game that they make and it just doesn’t work for me so
and i know how much publicity can come from one video to a game as well but you can’t play them all well even if
you enter 30 even just evaluating them you know two minutes per per game is an hour gone from your work
day so a lot of times now i can even tell what the game is about just by watching reading the title of
the email so become an expert on this filtering out indie games
it’s weird that’s a weird skill great so i think we’re going to wrap up
here is anything else uh you want to conclude on just to share with the audience you feel free to plug anything
you’d like yeah i guess you can check out my channel just search for blitz on there uh we’re also on the
about page you can see the different links tiktok twitter instagram’s growing
too we are starting out with the podcast called the creative mode coming up here pretty soon and then the 3d channel 3d
printing channel is blitzworks uh you can all find that on my vote page or get to twitter it’s all on there too
great thanks a lot for your time and i look forward to seeing a lot of great content you will make in
the future see you later thank you bye
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