In 2021, I jumped on the Twitch streaming bandwagon. (I genuinely thought it would be fun, and I was right, but I also burned myself out, which was less fun.)
The branding is a nod to my first website, The Page with a Pineapple, created with my high school best friend. I used my established branding colors, picked fonts I felt fit the vibe, and drew the pineapple based on a style I had stumbled upon and liked.
I think my favorite part of branding is once the concept is fleshed out, there’s not a lot of problem-solving or recreating needed. You just take the assets you’ve created, use the style guide as your, well, guide, and off your go!
When streaming on Twitch, there are a lot of assets you need if you want to make assets for every possibility. (I tend to go overboard, but that way, I’m never caught missing something it turns out I needed.)
The Live Living Story commands were for the streams where I would write a story with my audience, live on stream. It was an idea inspired by my Living Story blog posts, a short-lived series where I would write part of a story, then readers could give me a character name or description, piece of dialogue, an emotion, problem, prop, or setting, and I would incorporate them into the next part of the story.
Lesson learned from the blog series: it would probably be more fun with a larger audience. (I would only get one or two suggestions each time.)
Lessons learned from the stream, which was also short-lived: I need to plan better before each stream, and have most of the story worked out, having contributions be for details rather than plot points. (I’m embarrassed to say, the story was never finished.)
I also made emotes (below), but never ended up with enough followers to unlock all the spots.
