After spending years as a fan of youtube channels like Metal Jesus, Happy Console Gamer and Pete Dorr, I decided that I wanted to join the community and start producing videos. Right now I am starting out with literally no equipment; recording the video on my Iphone, lighting with desk lamps, and editing using some free software I found on the web, but I am having a lot of fun doing it, and I want to keep putting out new videos.
I had been kicking around the idea of starting a channel for a long time, but never did because of the numerous reasons I kept telling myself... too crowded of a space already, no equipment, social/public speaking anxiety... and then not too much later, at the end of March, Metal Jesus released his video about getting started on youtube and it pushed me over the edge and I decided "you know what? screw it, I'm going to do this for me, because I want to, and if other people pick it up, then great. Everybody's gotta start somewhere". I gave my self a month to get things put together for a May 1st launch, and then release videos every week from then on.
I based my channel around a problem that i have some times, where I stare at my game collection and think to myself "What should I play?". I decided to offer other suggestions to others that may be stuck in the same situation.
It took a lot of learning, and there is still more to go, but the videos are getting better every week, and I met my self-imposed launch date and have been keeping up with my weekly 10:00 AM Saturday morning time slot (which was chosen both as a homage to the Saturday Morning Cartoons of the past, and to my two biggest influences, MJR and HCG who release on Friday and Sunday morning respectively). I have 4 videos up so far, with 3 more in editing, and a number more in the conception/scripting phase, so I don't plan on going away anytime soon.
