New Hobby
2011
So I decided that I was going to start doing YouTube videos. I thought maybe doing a playthrough of a game would be a good idea. It would get me doing something somewhat creative and get me involved in the YouTube community. I have always admired the YouTube community as it has started (and still hosts) a lot of very entertaining people.
I watch Toby Turner, Philip DeFranco, iJustine, EpicMealTime and many others. My favorite at the moment has to be Rooster Teeth though. They just do great content and it comes out every day. From Podcasts to YouTube sketches they are unstoppable. So, kind of inspired by all of that, I made a couple of videos of me playing Terraria. Terraria is kind of like an arcade version of Minecraft. I did a review of it on shoryuken.ie if you want to check it out. I came up with a format called a “skipthrough”. As the game involves a lot of grinding, I only show the best bits and cut the rest out. So in the end I got about 12-15 episodes for a complete playthrough of the game.
I’m going to post them in groups and see how it goes. I had fun making them, its an interesting game as there is no linear path to take. So you just get to see the unique parts of the game in random order. There are a couple of boss battles throughout so that’s how I decided on the ending for it. I’ll keep playing but I don’t think there is any good content in looking for the last items of the game. My next project is to do a step by step of my development of a Minecraft mod.
So, if you want to find out what’s going on, check out http://youtube.com/garyongaming or http://gog.garycregan.ie.
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