Making a Youtube Channel to Build an Audience with Noa Calice (BlackthornProd) | GduX.me

[Music] all right stripper so as you know I'm gonna be making I'm gonna be talking about how to get make a YouTube channel to build an audience so yeah we all want to make a great video games obviously and sell them to the world and have millions of people loving it it's a very cool goal to have but it isn't easy so obviously there's the massive challenge of making a great game so you're from arts to programming to music and design your games are complex things to create for sure especially if you're an indie game developer where you need to be good at lots of different things if you hope to ever finish a great game so yeah to finish the game is an incredible feat even a small free web game it's yours and your lots of passion and hard work was put into it and you deserve to have people play it but a huge majority of games sadly are released and just completely ignored and I was one of

those developers the first six or seven games small web games I made were only played and reviewed by my family and a few friends they weren't groundbreaking games of course but that absolute silence and lack of feedback did feel a bit weird and discouraging at times so I realized that knowing I need to you know keep improving as a developer programmer artist and game designer but if I wanted to turn this hobby into a full-time thing I would need to find a way to you know share my work with the rest of the world and get people knowing about me and caring about why creates so in this talk basically I'm gonna be covering the fundamentals of making a YouTube channel making YouTube videos is not only a ton of fun really is but of course I'll help you build out that passionate audience that will support you and pull your game when it does come out so when it does get released so we'll cover why making a youtube channel is awesome and should

seriously be considered to build up an audience obviously we'll also take a look at how to start a YouTube channel from the equipment needed types of videos to create building a cool brand and lots more and finally we'll take a look at the few downsides of making an up keeping a youtube channel it's not all sunshine and rainbows of course but yeah it mostly is but yeah there's a few downsides that are important to keep in mind so yeah first of all a bit more detail about me so I'm Noah again I'm 19 years olds and yeah I have a youtube channel called black from France which has their over a hundred thousand subscribers now and it's although game dev of course so I seriously started making games almost three years ago which isn't that much but ever since opening up unity I've just been in love with game creation and this hardly being a day that goes by without me just programming making game are creating videos about game day or you're just fiddling with units and so on so I've completed 31 games and all most

of them are small some are a bit crap but one thing is for sure each one has taught me a lot and this helps me know improve as a game developer and currently I'm playing I'm finishing out my very first commercial game called the dreadful whispers which is a 2d platformer about overcoming your fears so yeah I'm really excited about that and of course I have a YouTube channel black from Prague which is focused on game Dave and lastly I'm also udemy instructor which means I made two game dev udemy courses with my brother so I thought quite a lot of things but so yeah this talks can be focused on my YouTube channel and how that helps me to grow this audience and really improve as a game developer so that is the first question we're gonna be asking is your why YouTube so there are literally hundreds of games getting released every single day as we know has a results you know when you release your own game it can be very very hard for it to get the attention it deserves

unless your game is absolutely phenomenal or incredibly innovative if you haven't done any marketing for it and release it with nobody even knowing about it before hands that your game is very likely to be completely ignored and that's pretty awful especially in the game it's good and you've put so much passion and hard work into it hardly anyone plays your game you will also be able to turn gamedev into your full time job and you'll also find it a lot harder to improve because you won't get that precious and feedback from players and that structured criticism from players because your has a developer it can be hard to spot your own games flaws is the game too easy maybe for you the developers is because you've been playing your own game for hundreds of hours but for the average player your own game I mean the game might be ridiculously hard and you won't know that unless you get feedback and your criticism and stuff from players so yeah having ologists audience is really

important you want your games to be played especially if you want to turn game net into a full-time job and not just a hobby you want to improve as a developer thanks to player feedback and understand what people like about your games also what they dislike are unfair and of course having people player game can be very motivating and keep you excited to continue working on your craft and improving your skills so there are obviously lots of ways to build up an audience Pacus in this talk on the only way I'm experienced with and that's through YouTube so yes having a youtube channel is a great way to build up a passionate fan base people play whatever you may can give you feedback and supporting you throughout your game depth journey marketing yourself with YouTube can be lots of fun it's also a way to stay completely independence you're not relying on some publisher and you're not working for a big company you're building up your very own audience and yeah people who just care about you and what you make which is really awesome so YouTube can mean being

independent yes and you can also be a source of income while you work on your game for example you can enable ads on your videos which will give you a certain amount of money every month depending on how many people watch your contents initially with only a few hundred views per video you'll hardly get any money from ad revenue but the more your audience grows and the more views you get the more money you'll also receive obviously and you can also set up a patreon page for passionate supporters of your work to give you monthly donations you can open up a merch store or even look for cool sponsors to earn some extra money while you work on your game projects I have a whole video on my channel and exactly how much money I earn which I recommend you check out after all these talks of course so yeah YouTube is an awesome way to build up an audience stay independent also earn some money so you don't starve yourself and maybe even your family while you work on your game and for a lot of other reasons as well see

throughout this talk so so how do you start this YouTube channel what equipment do you need what types of videos should you create and what else will YouTube give you so first of all a name your YouTube channel you've got to give it a name my channel and company name is called black firm prods which is weird and pretty hard to pronounce for some people but then I'm stuck with it and I've grown to really like the name despite its quirkiness so yeah ensure the name of your channel won't really make or break its you can name your channel after your real name or find a cool stylish company name just do whatever feels right to you next up and die importantly make videos of course the only way you're going to start building up a passionate audience is by uploading great videos consistently so since the goal here is to get an audience that will in the future buy your game you should make videos related to game dev or the gaming worlds don't start posting gardening or wildlife or dance videos because your

audience might not be interested in making in playing games of course so what are the types of videos that you should consider making on your YouTube channel to build out that audience so the first type of videos that you should definitely think about making are tutorials that's how I started my youtube channel I made lots of tutorials on programming game arts animation and more basically I helped a lot of people I shared all my knowledge and experience for free and because of that people began to feel really thankful towards me I was being generous and helpful towards them and they thanks me by subscribing to my channel leaving really nice comments and even just donating a few dollars on patreon so tutors were a way for me to give and eventually people will give back and turn making to trolls were also a way for me also taught me a lot and made me a better game developer it's amazing how teaching can just help you learn as well

for example people may request I make a random dungeon generation tutorial series I would have no clue how to do that but since so many people were asking I had the motivation to learn how to do so and that's our pressure helped me learn faster and bigger stuff outs it was kinda like a good pressure and then teaching to others why I've learned firmly anchors that knowledge within me plus having people regard me as a wise very knowledgeable teacher even if that wasn't at all the case made me feel and starts to behave like one they gave me confidence and removes a lot of doubts in me which again helps me improve and grow faster second video type are dev logs now these videos in these videos you basically documents your own gaining that journey you basically share with them your yeah your journey you could talk about what tools and software you're using the progress

you've been making on your game new cultures and features added and so on it's basically like a blog but game developer style so you can either focus on your game dev lifestyle or focus more on your game or both now I love making dev vlogs and I love watching these it's really cool so by watching you make your own game your viewers can get motivated to make their own they may also really relate to the sorts of life you're living and feel closer to you and as a result be more supportive share the progress you make in a dev vlog video is also a great way to get people really excited about your game and eager to buy and play it when it eventually gets released now during each dev vlog video make sure to ask your audience to let you know what they think of your game and the progress you're making or ask them for advice or suggestions for example should the end boss be a dragon or a Giants let me know in the comment section down below so this way people will feel even

closer to you in your game because they'll actually be interacting with you and feel like the natural parts and the creation of this gamer and of course the dead logs you'll be getting lots of feedback if you're a cool guy and respect mmm and respect your audience and show passion and enthusiasm for what you're making then that feedback will tend to be very positive and encouraging it could also be very helpful she'll be able to improve your game and of course running a dev vlog makes you accountable you can no longer just give up on your game project nice and quiet with nobody knowing because if equates hundreds if not thousands of people will know the acquits so we'll definitely think twice and you'll procrastinate a lot less too if you don't make any progress people will also know because you'll have nothing to show in your weekly dev vlog video or whatever but yeah the most important is that you have fun so 2,000 dead logs are great ways to fill up an audience for sure also prove as a developer however you can also make legs

play videos or analyze your favorite video games and talk about their design and what makes them so cool just do whatever you want wherever you find the most fun to create because if you don't have fun creating the videos then you'll give up and all this will be for nothing of course ok consistency now of course consistency is key especially when starting out you need to try your best to upload videos regularly on your channel to build up that audience if you can upload one video per week that's awesome if not try at least one every two weeks now quality is more important than quantity so one great video per month is a lot better than two crappy Russian videos per week but just keep in mind that the more videos you upload the faster your audience will grow again considering that what you upload is actually interesting or helpful and entertain manga now if you're very inconsistent especially when just starting out people will usually quickly forget about you and your work and YouTube won't promote

your videos as much so be consistent and yeah quality over quantity very very important I just said lots of crappy videos wouldn't get you very far at all so make videos that you yourself would enjoy watching now this doesn't mean you need super expensive top-notch quality of equipment of course not but what you say ensure in your tutorials or dev vlogs for example should be interesting and entertaining or helpful of course and keep your videos relatively short especially tutorials they shouldn't be longer than 20 minutes max the best thing being between 5 and 10 minutes in my opinion so viewers don't get bored or lose concentration and stop watching your video before as even ended also you must avoid at all costs making a video where you're mostly mumbling or even making mistakes and fixing those during the video about 5 years ago when I was 14 I started a YouTube channel and uploaded to trolls to it on how to use a 3d application called Maya and I would

basically just hit the record button and begin talking and showing people how to make something with no preparation beforehand so despite knowing and understanding the tool the tutorials were terrible because I was mumbling hesitating and making mistakes due to the fact that I hadn't prepared firsts and so I would upload this 13 minutes mess that no any you watch thankfully so here's a quick guide on how I make a video nowadays I start by writing down a word for word everything I'm going to say in the video of the entire scripts this way I can find the right words figure out the best way to explain a certain concept or tool and I'm working on a tutorial and ranking the video relatively shorts engaging and even entertaining though I'm doing all this preparation work beforehand so I'm not freestyling my way through a video this guarantees that there won't be any mumbling hesitation or mistakes during the video then I record my voice several times if if need be until I read the

whole script perfectly with a clear voice and no stammering or mistakes and once that's all done I can begin editing this is when I find or make bits of footage to match up with why I'm saying so if I'm making for example a tutorial on coloring game characters and Photoshop and I says some points in the video color of this to an orange then I'll record the screen showing myself coloring a character and orange and plays that bit of tooted to match up with my voice now of course making a video this way it takes a lot more time and energy but you'll get better more polished results this method works especially well for tutorials of course if you're creating a dead log you probably want to make your video this way you might record anything interesting you're doing during the day and talk about it and then just assemble all of that for your video and of course if you're creating a let's play video you'll just capture your on the spots unedited reactions to keep the video cue the video fresh and farma now making a

great video will of course just take practice and everyone is going to have different ways of doing so did your editing and creation is a whole skill in itself so yeah just keep out and keep practicing and you'll get better for sure okay equipments now again you don't need really expensive equipments and software's to make great videos I do recommend however that you spend just a bit of money on buying a decent microphone so that your voice sounds good I'm using a blue Yeti microphone which costs about $150 I've had it for a year and a half and it still works brilliantly it's a great buy for sure if you want your voice to sound clearer and crisper to edit my videos record my voice and capture footage I use Camtasia Studio naima which costs about $200 but you could of course use free software's especially when starts now it's for example light works or audacity to record your voice and if you plan on building yourself or your surroundings

for example for a dev vlog then you can just use your phone or a cheap camera and you really don't need Ultra HD quality images to gather a following and get people interested in what you make yeah don't make that an excuse for it all starts right now of course there's nothing wrong with getting great equipments if you can afford it and really wants and really wanted to other quality of your contents it's just not a prerequisite you you decide what you want to do all right now I have some miscellaneous tips for you to make a really great video so first of all keep the intro shorts I see quite a few tiny youtubers make videos with intricate mmm sorry intricate super long intros I myself was guilty of that the first videos on my channel have an intro the lasts 10 seconds that's way too long especially since mine was pretty boring so yeah I keep the animated intro no longer than three to four seconds or don't put any at all and don't promote

anything at the start of the video especially when starting outlets so for example don't go asking people to follow you on Twitter or support you on patreon as soon as the video starts do all that at the end of the video especially again winter starts and when nobody really cares about you because yeah we live in a time where there's just solid content coming out to YouTube every single day and the attention span and patience for most people is pretty short so if what you make isn't almost immediately interesting or helpful then a classic viewer won't hesitate clicking on another video another cool and easy thing to do to make your content better and more interesting mmm is add some quiet background music so no singing boys just instruments normally we'll distill in the moments of quiet in a video like you to trill for example but we'll also add more atmosphere and a feeling of Polish to your video considering the music isn't too loud of course or fast-paced or annoying the

last thing you want is to stop people from being able to concentrate because of bad music also try and sound motivated and excites is an extra making a very serious or a sad video but you should try and sound happy especially for tutorials which can be pretty boring so yeah it's sounding happy and enthusiastic will generally make people like you more and enjoy your content more as well plus some of that passion and motivation in your voice will pass on to your viewers and they'll start to feel the same way too now you don't need to sound super excited and motivated either for your viewers to like you and your content there's something called relaxed caring or a bit of funny could be has effective and cool just avoid sounding angry sad or boards they're often I'll watch tutorials or even dev logs where the developer sounds downright boards and that's a sure way to also bore your viewers and lose on potential supporters and last but very important little tip be unique try and make content that can be found

anywhere else that's really how you're gonna build up that audience so if you're making tutorials try and make tutorials and topics that have hardly ever been covered before or if you make a tutorial on a very well-known topic still try and make the video unique and interesting by explaining it's in a different way here from a different angle or a humor to the tutorial or explain a tricky topic with cool pictures and cartoon characters so we have be aware of what's already out there analyze existing videos so that you don't just end up making a copy of existing contents all right here are some tips on growing your audience so as we talked about before you need to be consistent people will begin to look forward to your next video and of course the more videos you have the more likely people are to find out least one possibly subscribe and watch lots more and then there's YouTube that tends to promote your content more if you're consistent you want to make great videos obviously and that will take time and practice again like with any scale the

more you do the better you'll get you also want to add Goods tanks and titles to your videos definitely your make them description fun I won't get into that in this talk I recommend you do some research on how to write good video titles and tanks to get more viewers and have youtuber promote your contents more also make sure to post your videos on various league aimed at forums on reddit Facebook or even on discord servers and slowly but surely establish a cool brand for yourself that people will recognize and learn to lava so use a certain color or fonts and all your videos thumbnails that people will recognize as yours or have an awesome mascot character that represents you and your channel they're establishing a brand takes time but you need to consistently work on it make your brand unique and have a reflects your personality or video style so thumbnails should have your own unique style that people will spot when scrolling through and long list of videos same thing for your channels banner and logo of course give it your

own style and be consistent with that style so people don't get lost looking for your content and understands that all these videos come from the same creator again making a cool brands would take a whole talk so I can't go into any further detail right now I just recommend you do some research on that before starting your channel all right last but not least don't give up now we can go on and on about best strategies to grow your audience but in my opinion the most important thing you can possibly do is not give up for an enormous majority of youtubers your channel will grow very very slowly at bursts now even if you make amazing original videos you're still very likely to only get a handful of views and subscribers during the first few months even first year it took me five months to get my first 500 subscribers but if you keep working on your channel keep improving the quality of your videos and bettering your brand and gamedev skills then you'll

eventually reach that audience you deserve of course and the good news is yes your channel will grow very slow at first but if you don't give up it will tend to grow faster and faster as time goes on and you have more and more videos so it's like me five months to get 500 subscribers and then a month later I add doubles reaching a thousand subs and six months later it's ten thousands and ten months after that I reached 100k so yes it's great to have followers and lots of views but those ones come very fast initially so it's important to not get discouraged and focus instead on enjoying the video creation process and cherish the few subscribers you do have and remember running a youtube channel is more than just about building up an audience that will buy and play your game yes that's an important factor and a great reward for the hard work you put into your channel but as we've seen you'll learn a lot by making videos and you'll acquire new skills like video editing and being consistent and

establishing a brand and yes don't obsessively compare the amount of views or subscribers you have on your channel compared to some other channel doing so is usually just a very good way to feel discouraged and begin to measure your self-worth and the self-worth of others based on numbers which is obviously very wrong which brings us to the couple down sites that come with having a YouTube channel so first of all YouTube can be a lot of work if your determines to build a great channel you'll have to put in a ton of time and energy nothing great comes easily of course and that course means you'll have less time and energy to spend on actually making your game or relaxing or spending time with friends and family so it's very important to not overwork and completely burnouts which has happened to me on a number of occasions having thousands of subscribers is not at all worth it if you're stressed out and exhausted your

physical and mental health are your greatest priorities of course always remember that secondly dev vlogs aren't always the best no making dev vlogs is great as was as we've seen in this talk but it might not be a great way a great thing to do for every type of game the games are very linear or red shorts or rely heavily on secrets and player discovery or plot twists will be difficult to cover in a dev vlog without spoiling the experience I'm making a game called the dreadful whispers which is a short puzzle platformer and so when making my dev vlogs I was torn between showing everything I had done that week and not showing anything because I was worried I would spoil the experience so yeah keep that in mind before making a dev vlog or yeah I really just try and design a game that would be great to cover in a dev vlog unlike what I did show a puzzle platformer not the best another downside to YouTube is getting addicted to numbers like your subscriber

counts as I said before or views per video and losing science of what really matters which is making great games learning and having fun while doing so like all avid social media users you'll almost certainly go through periods where you'll obsessively refresh your channel page to check for new comments or subscribers and spend just hours poring over analytics and comparing your numbers to the numbers of others it's just a power the YouTube journey you'll have to learn how to stay disciplined and not fixate on these things that aren't nearly as important as you might initially think and won't bring you more happiness like when I had hundreds of treiber's I used to think that having 10,000 would be amazing mind-blowing and make me very happy and fulfills but then I reach that number and that was far from satisfied like I wasn't satisfied really I already wanted 50,000 and when I got that I was still unsatisfied and so on basically your money subscribers views you can

live in a state of constantly wanting more and that will leave you feeling very unfulfilled and unhappy so don't focus too much on that easy to say a lot harder to do of course and lastly you'll sometimes have to deal with haters or unfair criticism but avoiding it completely is impossible if you're trying to make or do something great there will always be people to doubt you or say negative things about you no matter how nice you are no matter how great what you make is just ignore it and realize that they don't really hate you they're usually just angry at themselves for either being lazy or having given up on their own passion or goals so to conclude that's the basics of making a YouTube channel to build up on that audience that's so important really so there are some downsides to it as I just mentioned like with any job really there's always going to be a few downsides but I think the positives of having of having a YouTube channel helped sway largely the negatives

you'll earn money get players that care about your game and give you feedback learn new skills have fun and be more motivated and disciplines the main takeaway here is if you're consistence if you don't give up and if you keep trying to prove your contents then you'll build out that audience for sure it's certain if you really hate or find the process of making videos boring and only wants big view counts lots of subscribers and money the new truth is definitely not the right thing for you do it to build up an audience but not only it also needs to be because you like doing it and are open to learning and being disciplined and patience remember no matter house how things are or gets you're already miles in front of everyone that isn't even trying I just love that quotes just if even if you make a little bit of an effort every time you're already doing great okay thanks so much for listening to this talk hopefully you found it interesting if you want more from me and learn more

about my beatings my youtube video with my team that courses just check out my website www.themanufacturingmentor.com

[Applause] [Music] strand build up the subscriber base and people will be able to find it without going through all these ad loops or anything like that and it is the video platform for anything that you want to publish video with that being said let's get to the questions all right we have a lot so again for anyone you can ask and twitch YouTube Twitter wherever you're watching we do have moderators we have our little birds over there to help fill the questions to us so this comes from funny mushroom the question is how do you be unique how do you make really interesting content for users well that it's a very tough very very tough you I think it's very

hard to be unique when you're just starting out you can't find that uniqueness the more you do it so initially maybe don't so obviously it's good to strive and try and unique but don't stress about it too much just try and do a great job try and have fun what in what you're doing just really trying to enjoy the process and the more you do it the better you're gonna get the more original you're going to get also it's about you're analyzing the videos and games that already do exist and trying to just be different from them so if you see like some guys teaching something in a certain way and maybe you think that can be improved by adding pictures I'm illustrating what the guys saying or again teaching it and being a bit funny or even making a game teaching people how to make games there's all kinds of ways to be unique so analyze other people what they're making and yeah just try and and be different from them it's yeah it's it's

tough being original it just it comes with experience I think and really enjoying what you're doing that's okay next question I have comes from left-handed Heather Heather thanks for returning for day number two I recognized the name from yesterday question number one from her is how do you feel about consistency versus style or wait hold on let me okay how do you feel about consistency of style versus the variety of styles so for example all of your videos are about game development but the content changes right because one game may be very cartoony with simple gameplay and then another game you may be working on later is more elegant and has like a higher emphasis on story etc so that will probably change the type of content that you're showing so what's your strategy for being consistent throughout even as your content types to change so where I think it's important to be consistent is yeah first of all and how often you upload videos in the quality of your

content and also cover the style so each like thumbnail should have that you know recognizable art style or recognizable sponsor mascots so people know the guys from the same creator but obviously if you're too consistent you know what you make so if you're always doing the same type of game or the same kind of tutorial and stuff people are going to get bored so it's important to be consistent for certain things but also be very intensive and try and be always different for other kinds of things so you always try to make different types of videos and different types of games you're from the same creator but calc yeah just in innovate and that otherwise you risk you run the risk of getting your viewers feeling a bit boards of what you're making you yourself will get boards if you always make the same thing so yeah try and be innovative on that side of things if you want to make your you making shooter don'ts are making 10 shooter games just to be consistent you just do other things alright so the next

question here is from Freddie Aloha the question is how do you deal with haters I don't know what that is do you have any yeah I know some people that quit YouTube because people have been very mean for no reason how do you deal with this yeah if you have like a dagger in the heart piece of advice like even more so than like towards the end that you had luckily luckily I have not had too much hates really not at all much like most the the community is just being social supports that ever since I started this journey so I've really not had that many haters I've been lucky on that front afterwards there of course I have had some and either way I just ignore it because I you know there's write a mean comment for example and and I see you and you're just no no nice answer it really it's is no point fixating on that one bad comments when you've got hundreds of other great ones it just is useless

afterwards if you've got haters that are close to you like maybe even friends or neighbors or even your family that can kind of be very doubtful towards what you're doing at first or even like how hates of what you're doing I have not had much of that soul but some I guess it's just one two yeah not pay that much attention to it just stay true to you do what you feels right and again know that these haters they're just very I think very like they're not really happy with themselves I don't think any really successful and happy person will hate on somebody else is not true so just know that that person is just probably not feeling good in size and is taking out on you or all his insecurities about you know what you should do in life and star coming out to you so yeah just just ignore it they're really not that important it's um yeah just that that's really about it yeah that's that's key right there cuz you know a lot of people will like to project they'll see someone else failing or doing something like a

small thing like what this guy bought is mom $100,000 car here's ten reasons why this person will not be successful and like are you kidding me like this person just bought their / - no their mother hundred thousand dollar car like relax are you sure they're doing well no I definitely sign off on that - just to add on I think a lot of haters want attention obviously I think that's first a priority on but as soon as you start talking to these some of course most or some or untalked about but I feel like a good portion just wants to have an interaction with you and this is the way they kind of reach out and get attention because it's true you kind of browse pass all the nice comments to look at the haters to see the negative comments see what you're doing wrong right which is kind of backwards and it's something that we need a fix is this I actually I'll take one moment before I ask you the next question no I think I was watching like a Joe Rogan podcast clip and he was like you think Michael Jordan leaves YouTube comments that put it in

perspective he's like someone successful is like the incessantly like a good life yeah the last thing that they're doing is trudging through it's true especially if they're secure yeah so anyway yeah I've got a comment comes from ex fitzy it looks like it says uh let's see how do you do with the slow growing period like how do you keep motivation to keep making good videos and deal with the YouTube growth system which is really bad for small content creators who still make really good content something I've been having trouble with I think all youtubers go through phases where again they start fixating on number subscribers views but as I said you know you're going to go through periods where things are very slow and it's just about not fixating on that knots you're putting all your efforts all your energy into caring about these numbers yes their importance but what's so much more important is what's so much more fulfilling in the long run is enjoying what you're doing so if you have fun doing what you're doing what you're doing if you enjoy

making gains if you feel like you're learning and if you know that your content is dudes then I mean you're doing the most you can and like if the YouTube algorithm is not on your size then sure you try all those prices many clickbait videos and that sort of stuff to make this go faster again but I'm not sure that's the best I think really just don't think sakes on it I truly believe and it's been working well for me so far I just believe that if I keep on trying to advance myself keep on trying to make better content and really just focus on enjoying what I am what I'm doing I know the long run I'm going to you get that audience I deserve I think if you put in the work the the universe is gonna deliver the order in the ends it's just it's just a fact so door if you if you deserve it and if you're putting in that work you'll get there and I love your attitude and outlook I I want more success for you because I think you're the type of person who has a great audience and you're gonna be continuing

to help benefit people like that type of attitude is key and I think more people need it so anyone watching this go support please go follow Blackthorne prod on youtube go learn something go follow this guy make games before while after doing that come back here and listen to the answer to this question so this comes from left-handed Heather again how do you maintain the balance between game dev YouTube and real life I'm keep on learning like again I've just been doing this for three years so I clearly have I think lack of balance when it comes to my account the real like social life you know just doing sport and stuff and work because I'm just so passionate I just love making games and videos so much and on top of that I'm getting rewarded for it's like I'm earning money and getting these all these nice comments so it's very easy to film the trap of just working your ten twelve hours a day and just you know like realizing when the

Sun is setting that you've not steps a foot outside you haven't done any sports it's something that I'm working on I'm really trying more and more to limit the amount of time I spend on the computer and trying to maybe even take your sunday off completely and it really does are you a lot of good I know for sure that you're if you just work all the time you're gonna burn out and then you're gonna lose a lot of time in the long run so it's good and again I mean game dev is awesome work is awesome achieving things as great but it's its soul it's like not has importance has your physical mental health and just spending time with family and friends going in holiday I mean that's really where a lot of happiness comes from also so don't sacrifice your your life or just so to make great stuff again I'm learning I am keep on I burn salads like this summertime because I just worked so much and yeah that's an eye-opener and

eye-opening experience I realized that if I don't take breaks I'm not gonna get anything anyways so yeah it's really important to have a balanced life and you're killing it dude another question for you from avocado bro this one is why would you focus on building an audience of developers wouldn't a gamer audience be more beneficial for your final product thing that's related to the game world so yeah like gamers or even game developers it's gonna be beneficial to you me I start I account builds this game developer origins and it wasn't really a conscious thing it's just I did it because I I liked making tutorials I liked sharing my gaming experience so that's why I did I could have obviously made lights play videos or videos more targeted towards less players towards papers I mean but I don't think I would have enjoyed making that sort of content as much so there you have it but yeah I

guess there's more gamers and there are game creators so you would probably benefit more but you probably get more sales and more abusing subscribers if you made if you try to build a gamer audience me again I just did that because it was a more rewarding thing for me to to show people I make my games and and also I love the game creation community because these are all people that that are making games for they understand each other and they can help each other out and it's just a really nice community all in all and I'm just so happy to be a part of its really alright man we love you being a part of it so this is the last question for audience go ahead and keep asking maybe no it will drop into twitch and answer it or maybe not but here it is silent he end hero asks what are your feelings on teaching stories for subjects you're still learning yourself this is actually a pretty good question I've heard advice that sometimes that's a good thing because experts tend to forget and what it's like to be a total beginner in

their subject well totally totally I I'm such a beginner of myself I only started making games seriously three years ago and so that was one of my goals when I started my youtube channel is really make tutorials for beginners because I remember just feeling so frustrated and not understanding how to program in C sharp because the tutorials back then seemed so complex I just could understand what was going on he's programming has easily been the hardest thing for you to learn so when I started to understand programming more and more I really felt his needs to share that knowledge with others in a very easy way which is why I've made so many to children programming and I made to you to me courses and my brother as well so yeah it's um I think has a beginner like there's another thing I was very hesitant also to make my youtube channel on one side of me wants it too but the other I didn't did you want sucks I thought I wasn't good enough I thought I was a beginner and so I had no rights to teach others how to make games because I

did not do it myself but that's silly because you can learn I think beginners probably as you said you will learn maybe in an easier way if another beginner is teaching them because you're that beginner doesn't say anything for granted he's gonna teach everything from the ground up in a very slow easy way where as experts as you said you only might because they've been doing this for so long they might know lots of things and think the other viewer knows it's as well even if they don't so yeah if you wanna start YouTube child even if you're a complete beginner you can do that and as I said in the talk you'll also learn so much by by making videos you're gonna improve like crazy and Noah we appreciate you taking the time to help all of us be better YouTube content creators but also breaking down your own strategies which a lot of people in this day and age when it comes to a self run business and making money there's a lot

of people who don't want to share their tips and success because usually it means that the competition is going to get an extra step up or two right you're creating more youtubers more people who are watching this our game developers who may be stepping into your waters and that's not any sort of like ominous like warning it's more so me appreciating how open you are about helping a community of like-minded individuals in an age where a lot of people don't really do that and so you know kudos to you thank you for being a part of this you're so happy that you know you and Brad Keys are helping us get this going glad that we got in touch and from day one we knew that you're special man so thank you for proving that's right and helping us support us man thanks again the youth reached out to me and yeah well thank you so much Donna if there's any last plug I think people kind of know go to YouTube channel but if there's any thing else you want to give a shout out to the platform is yours I think

yeah just visit my websites there you'll find your links to my games my my you to me courses I made to pull you to be courses teaching others how to make games with my brother Leon so if you want to support me and if you also want to learn how to make games then definitely consider checking out those courses and also I have a little break now but ten minutes I'll probably be in the black of of discord server did you want to ask me more questions on where else all right here to here first black dorm pro discord service you can ask no a couple extra questions there yeah there you go thank you so much Noah all right guys [Music] you [Music]