Continuing on the theme of awesome things happening in my life, lets go for #3. I have always been interested in video games, obviously. Since I'm getting out of the industry, I've been thinking about ways to stay involved. I also love to teach. So, combining the two interests, I am going to start erring involved in eSports. In particular, as of today, I'm going to start streaming. Some of you may not know what streaming is, and for many of you it won't be interesting in the least. Streaming is basically playing video games live and broadcasting, with commentary. It's a big business, and the main player is a company called Twitch. I'll be broadcasting there as my username, Maj0rDamag3. There isn't anything up there yet, but soon. Hopefully this weekend. My main focus will be my favorite game, Hearthstone. I like Hearthstone because it's beginner-friendly and doesn't require the sort of hand-eye speed that some other games do. But I'll probably also be playing League of Legends and Heroes of the Storm. I've built a little desk with a Surface Pro 3 and a dock and a ethernet connection to broadcast from, that's easy to move around. I'm trying to find an apartment up in Portland that has serious gigabit Ethernet, to make this hobby a reality. I don't foresee ever earning any money from this, but I do think it's going to be a lot of fun. I also want to start a meetup group up in Portland about eSports.
For those of you that want to know more, there's a great documentary about eSports that I'll link below. And for those of you that want to watch my stream, that's below as well. Happy gaming!
