Mark's streak app isn't done, but his attempt to build longer streaks of consecutive livestreaming days is paying off. He's published 5 videos within a week and its effect on his YouTube traffic has been remarkable. The rolling 28-day numbers are as follows: views +77%, watch time +75% and reach +109%. It hasn't translated into more money (yet), but that's not surprising given that YouTube views are high up in the Alchemist Camp sales funnel.
Justin's still making gradual progress on refactoring his Roblox game, Slider. He's added more instrumentation, gotten some expert advice and planned out some changes to the
We also talked about the equal pay for remote work topic that's been trending, the scalability of membership sites, Mark's Black Friday, and the psychology of pricing.
Today's Topics include:
Livestreaming
Analytics-driven game dev
Remote work
Scalability of membership sites
Black Friday
Pricing
Mentioned
Garry Tan on competition and gatekeepers (https://youtu.be/5siggWM8faY)
Phoenix Igniter (https://phoenixigniter.com)
Matteo (https://matteomosca.io/)
DNC pocast (https://dnc.show)
Trends.vc (https://trends.vc)
Mark's goals for next time
Stream at least 3 days
Do the Black Friday email campaign
Start the new ebook
Justin's goals for next time
Create "the player shaker" for Roblox
Video version here (https://youtu.be/K8G-xJztlog)
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Recorded on 2020-11-18
25 Jan 2021
#36 –The livestreamers
The results of Mark's livestreaming are in! It's taken some focus and effort, but it's greatly increased his production per hour of work. The quality of the screencasts is slightly worse, but his YouTube views are up by 50%, watch time is up 83% and he's picked up 11 Twitter followers.
Justin has continued working with Chris, the Roblox dev he mentioned meeting last episode, and it's been productive. He's changed the way Justin approaches the entire game. He's now taking a much more analytics-driven approach to increase player retention at every subsection of the game. A key part of this is looking at each player's success to failure ratio at each portion of race tracks.
We finished the talk with an extended discussion about livestreaming, working in public generally, why it's hard not to be self-conscious and how there can still be a big upside.
Today's Topics include:
Livestreaming
Analytics-driven game dev
Roblox
Matteo
Working in public
Livestreaming
Mentioned
Phoenix Igniter (https://phoenixigniter.com)
Matteo (https://matteomosca.io/)
DNC pocast (https://dnc.show)
Twitch Studio (https://www.twitch.tv/broadcast/studio)
Mark's goals for next time
Finish the streak app
Livestream for 5 consecutive days
Justin's goals for next time
Run a CTR experiment on Slider (and do the dev to prepare for it)
Video version here (https://youtu.be/UgyGl2h-0Ls)
Comment at https://reactor.am/podcasts/36 (https://reactor.am/podcasts/36)
On Apple Podcasts at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/reactor/id1500109358 (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/reactor/id1500109358)
Recorded on 2020-11-04
20 Jan 2021
#35 –Mentored by our youngers
Justin has met another interesting character in the Roblox dev space. He's released about 100 games, has interned at Roblox itself and has over a million monthly players on his own games. He's been checking out Slider and giving Justin some advice—primarily to make the game less linear.
Mark has also been inspired by a game dev on YouTube gotten some useful takeaways from him. His name is "The Cherno" and uses livestreams as a way to create graphics engine development screencasts for his audience. He records very long livestreams, gets what he wants to screencast figured out and then does them live in just a couple or usually in a single take! The quality of his screencasts dropped when he started doing this, but the recent ones are very good.
Justin also went on Startups for the Rest of Us for an interview, Starlink has some very eyebrow-raising clauses in its TOS and the NTD is getting strong.
Today's Topics include:
Roblox dev
Making non-linear games
Recording screencasts during livestreams
No code
Self-driving cars
Jurisdiction in space
Mentioned
Heyhi (https://heyhi.io)
Replayhero (https://replayhero.io)
Alchemist Camp (https://alchemist.camp)
The AI Podcast with Lex Fridman (https://lexfridman.com/podcast/)
The Cherno (https://www.youtube.com/user/TheChernoProject)
Mark's goals for next time
Record 4 screencasts
Livestream or otherwise build in public every day
Justin's goals for next time
Work out the game mechanic changes for Slider
Video version on YouTube (https://youtu.be/ASLdMXKLGR4)
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On Apple Podcasts at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/reactor/id1500109358 (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/reactor/id1500109358)
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