Streaming, YouTube, & Graphic Design
Looking back, everything really got started when I began streaming video game Let's Plays through my YouTube channel. The channel in and of itself was something I started working on because I enjoyed the idea of being able to share my enjoyment of something that I was passionate about with other people. It all began with a Dragon Age: Inquisition stream back in 2016 and has since evolved into a multi-platform endeavor, spanning across both YouTube and Twitch. My passion for Graphic Design started in the folds of video content creation, sitting in front of my laptop smashing conceptual collages together for video thumbnails and other graphics. Funny that my enjoyment of telling a story through my work started off as an attempt to make visual jokes out of things that happened during whatever stream I happened to be doing that week, right? |
Podcasting, & TTRPGs
Really, both my work in Podcasting and my work in TTRPGs are entirely intertwined, joined by a similar origin. Back in 2016, I started watching the soon-to-become internet phenomenon Critical Role, a live-streamed D&D 5e actual-play show starring some pretty big names in voice-over work for anime, video games, and cartoons. During the two months that it took me to breeze through upwards of what was then just 80 episodes, I became exceptionally passionate about the potential for table top roleplaying games like D&D to be a stage for grand storytelling. A couple years later, in 2018, just as Critical Role began their second campaign, I started my own actual-play show, Dungeons & Doodles, originally streamed live on my Twitch channel. Now in 2021, the Dungeons & Doodles name no longer belongs to an amateur streaming set up but is rather an umbrella title for a young actual-play network producing two separate shows, both of which I am the DM, producer, and editor for. Outside of podcasting, I've also started working on original TTRPG concepts, including a game called Convenience Stores & Casinos, an open-world sandbox heist simulator inspired by Grand Theft Auto V and the Achievement Hunter YouTube channel. In addition, I'm also working on a game called Before Your Eye, a modern fantasy game about death and what it means for life to be a story that you get to choose the ending for. |