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Alexander or BattleDrum, caught our eye due to his consistent streaming schedule and amassing almost 40 hours of streaming in one week. To say that he is determined would be an understatement. We sat down with Alexander briefly to hear a little bit about why he got hooked to streaming, what he’s learned, and more. Read on for the interview.<\/p>\n
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>What got you into Streaming?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Alex:<\/strong> Around my Sophomore\/Junior year in high school, I started to see this “thing”\u00a0blow up on YouTube with people posting video games\u00a0in videos either to inform, educate or entertain. Since then, I have always wanted to do exactly that, but I lacked a decent computer, and\u00a0I didn’t know how to capture video games or edit videos. After I had graduated high\u00a0school in 2010, I started to get more into it by subscribing to channels like Roosterteeth or Machinima – where a\u00a0lot of these video game videos were featured. In 2012, I finally built my own computer powerful enough to be able to record and edit footage for my YouTube channel that I made soon after. For the next year or so, I posted, \u00a0“Let’s Plays” of me playing Warcraft III, one of my favorite RTS games, Assassin’s Creed III multiplayer matches and Halo 4. Though I didn’t expect to get a lot of traction posting these videos, it was more to see if I wanted to do this “thing” on the internet. However, it wasn’t until summer 2013 that I saw a channel I was subbed to on YouTube uploading something about him streaming on this website called Twitch. I was intrigued what streaming was so I hopped over to the site, and I couldn’t describe this sense of “wow”. There’s just people here playing video games, and doing it “live” instead of recording. Now, something about me is that I can definitely be lazy. It was hard for me to schedule time to record something, figure out what I wanted to record, how to edit it, and just a lot of thought about making videos. On Twitch, all I had to do was press “Start” and from then on I wanted to do it live, not just because it was easy, but because the interaction that you have in a live environment is just way more fun.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n > What kind of streams do you put on?\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Alex:<\/strong> Personally, it’s all about the variety of games. I love playing so many different genres that\u00a0it’s hard to find the commonality between them all, but i’m a sucker for a great story, great characters, and gameplay that makes me feel like a badass. For the most part, \u00a0I play a certain game in bursts – meaning i’ll play this new game that just came out and after I’ve beaten it or got bored of it\u00a0I would\u00a0move onto something else. The same idea would apply for continuous games like Overwatch or similar titles where the game gets updates and changes rather than sequels. Variety is definitely key to my stream, but I try to pertain to my audience to satisfy their gameplay needs as well as my own. In a normal stream however, i’d expect to see me playing 1-2 games for the entirety of the stream, I try not to switch to too many games in one stream just to keep the day\u00a0consistent.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n