STACK #161 Mar 2018

GAMES

NEWS

enjoyed the video. Or how they were having a tough day or dealing with something in their life, and that my video (something I made for fun) helped cheer them up, even if it’s only for a short while. It’s almost like a drug to me, I need to check all my comments and socials the first thing when I wake up. That probably sounds extremely clichéd [laughs]. PTesh's Top 3 YouTubers: videogamedunkey NakeyJakey SparkleBeast is quite easy. But just because a video is 10 minutes long, doesn’t mean that it takes 10 minutes to make. Another misconception is that it’s treated like a full time job. I like to argue that it goes even further beyond that. You honestly have to be dedicated! You don’t get to choose your hours, and you work until your video is done. Some videos I make take around an easy five hours just to edit, and some others can take anywhere up to an exhausting 30 hours to edit. The rest fall somewhere in between in terms of time. I remember when GTA V (finally) released their heists. I recorded it (which took a few hours), edited the footage until 5am, woke back up at 10am and spent the entire day editing. It added up to around 20 hours of straight editing to come up with something I was proud of to share with my viewers. With that being said, there’s always the kickers. Sometimes you could spend a good 15 hours editing a video for it not to get the views you thought that video deserved. But I try not to let it get to me, which is ever so hard when I play a numbers game... How many hours a day/ week do you devote to producing videos/ streaming content? A lot of people like to think that making videos

PTesh

We’re profiling some of Australia’s biggest content creators to see what really makes them tick. This month we spoke to PTesh from Perth, known for his Call of Duty, PUBG and Fortnite videos!

What do you think is the best part about being a content creator? The money. Kidding. That’s a joke because that’s what the media normally covers when it comes to the gaming industry. On a more serious note, it’s insane to see people’s thoughts on the videos I create and share with them. I schedule my videos to go live at 2am, so it’s always awesome to wake up and respond to comments of people telling me how much they

Fortnite

us purchased a capture card, and we make a few skits here and there. I only really started making videos on my own a few years later when the first Black Ops came out, through the theatre mode share feature which allowed me to upload my clips to YouTube, as owning a capture card to record your gameplay was fairly expensive. Especially as a 15-year-old...

When did you first start out makingYouTube videos? I first started making videos a really long time ago with friends on Halo 3 . I remember it being 2008 and a few friends and I wanted to make a “machinima” ( the practice or technique of producing animated films through the manipulation of video game graphics ) kind of like Red Vs Blue . So we scripted something out, one of

Read the full interview online at stack.com.au

Call of Duty: Black Ops

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