r/youtubegaming

I'm very frustrated with the current situation regarding Mixtape on both the defenders and especially the haters end. To me it's a mid interactive narrative game that does a lot wrong but also a lot right, especially artistically.

I have no dog in America's political fight, so I just want to give the game an honest look as a gamer for other gamers unrelated to all the drama.

The way I want to structure the video tho, calls for the licensed music, period. Since the music IS part of the game, does youtube not have more relaxed rules for that? It's not like I'd be playing entire songs, it's just showing the scenes without the accompanying music doesn't feel right, especially the way I want to film my video.

Not looking for my channel to blow up and become the next sensation. I’m just trying to get a great supportive community going. Most of my views and subs come from shorts. I do Full Game Longplays and First Playthroughs and etc. livestreams are always at 1-2 viewers. I’ve had my YT channel for 8 years now and my sub count is only 278, it’s a gaming channel not dedicated to a certain niche because I play anything, I’m a variety gamer/creator. My goal isn’t big time or anything but it gets exhausting and frustrating uploading daily and doing Full Games only to get no traction on YT or help the channel. It started off as a hobby and just for fun but I’d be lying if I said it didn’t get lonely most times and had me feeling like why do I do this and who am I doing this for? Who’s even watching? Maybe I’m just overthinking it but any suggestions/ideas from people who went through the same would be appreciated. I don’t have a PC, I’ve always been a console gamer, Nintendo and PlayStation

Hi everyone not sure if this is the correct place to ask I record and post video game play through tutorials I'm looking for suggestions of video editing software I can use to blur out imaged in the video something that could let me circle the spots frame by frame would be great I mainly use my pc windows 11 to do most editing and i record the play through with a fee different apps or sometimes a ipad pro when it's available thanks in advance

I record gaming videos using Elden Ring and other tools, shooting on CQP 17 and editing in DaVinci. The results are very clear, and I export them in HD, matching my screen resolution. However, when I upload them to YouTube, they are blurry and unclear. I don't know what the solution is i tried everything so help me plz…

Hello everyone. I'm completely lost and don't know how to achieve optimal quality for my recorded gameplay. I record in 1080p and then upscale it to 1440p. But I have no idea what bitrate to export at. The answers I found online are completely different. Some say a 20,000 bitrate is enough, while others say at least 80,000 is needed. I don't have the opportunity to test different options and evaluate them visually. So, my only hope is you. What options do you use for exporting video? Constant or variable bitrate? Or maybe constant QP? I need both static and action scenes to look as good as possible, with file size being a lower priority.

I was wondering since I started posting Minecraft gameplay since 2 months ago

For the past 5-6 months I have been running my Live games channel on YouTube. These are mostly word & puzzle games, where, when people reply in Live Chat, those messages are sent to the game backend via the YouTube Live Comments API, and show up in the game. Most of the Live streams are between 1-3 hours.

As a conscious design-choice, I have kept the aspect-ratio vertical (9:16).

Turns out, YT pushes traffic from the SHORTS FEED, even for non-Short but VERTICAL LIVE streams.

So pretty soon, we ended up seeing 100-1400 Concurrent viewers/players in some of our streams.
But after a typical MAX traffic day, the next day, the SHORTS-FEED traffic would come down to near-zero!

No explanation.
So I'd read up on forums, chat with the AskTube AI (that's actually pretty awesome!) -- but no tangible answer/direction.

But our core players (30-40) would turn up everyday due to muscle-memory!

Then, slowly the traffic would build up. And in a couple of weeks, the traffic would again MAX out (e.g. 250,000 views!) -- And the next day -- again ZERO traffic from Shorts Feed!

Been through 3 such cycles. The third one coincided with us getting monetized. But, now we're getting zero Shorts Feed traffic for more than a week now. Tried changing the names of the streams, timings, durations, supplementing with actual short videos etc. But nothing's working now. Meanwhile, Live streams with similar content type are getting YT Shorts Feed traffic regularly.

So basically, there's some sort of marker/flag that's been put on my channel, that puts it totally out of the YT Shorts Feeds.

Anyone has any insight on this (apart from the motherhood and apple-pie advise like 'focus on your content', 'first 3 seconds..' etc.).

Thanks in advance!

Let's help each other out. I get visibility and you get content :)

My game's demo is on Steam and is called HELL YEAH: GUNSLINGER

Wishlist too while you're at it!

Hey. So I’m currently unemployed and I absolutely love playing games. I’m considering making a YouTube career live streaming games, however my anxiety means I’m somewhat nervous about this prospect as I don’t have much confidence in myself and can quickly give up if I’m not seeing progress.

I play on my ps5 and don’t have any specialised streaming equipment or anything like that, so at the moment I literally just stream and talk.

Yesterday I had 21 views on a live stream, but no one commented and no one interacted in any way.

What would your advice be on my next steps? Is it even possible to make a career out of this? I recently renamed my channel and made a cool new logo, new bio etc but I’m sure there’s a lot more I could do. Any suggestions appreciated. Thank you

I’ve been uploading long form gaming videos for about a month now and was wondering how you guys meet and network with other creators within the community. I’ve been trying to look for people on TT and IG, but I’ve had no success. Where and how do you make these connections?