Are you a gamer, but not making any money from it? Then you are wasting your time! There are tens of thousands of gamers world wide that are making extra money in their spare time by playing games.
Here are a few techniques you can use to earn money gaming:
1. Live Streaming – You can join a life streaming site like
“Twitch” and start live streaming all the games you play, narrating it as you go a long. If you have an interesting personality then people would love to see you play. Look for a game where there is good demand. Games that people want to see you play. Make sure you have a unique take on it or a unique type of persona. Share your live streams on all fb groups related to your game, or related to live streaming etc, and start building your followers. Once you have built a following, you can let people donate to you, subscribe to your streams, or even approach companies to advertise stuff for them on your streams. At the very least you can get tons of free stuff to test out, if you promote it in your streams.
2. Gaming videos – Start a youtube channel and create screen capture videos related to your game of choice. ie. create tutorial videos, walkthrough videos, tips videos, how to videos etc. Videos that people who love that game, will want to watch. Type in related Keywords on youtube to see what people are searching for the most. ie. if you type “mindcraft” you will see that some of the most searched for phrases are “mindcraft house tutorial”. So then simply create tutorial videos on creating houses in that game. You can build a huge following this way.
-If you start getting lots of views, then you can join Youtube’s ads network, and start getting paid for your views. You can make $10+ per 10,000 views.
-You can advertise things on your videos and their descriptions as well. ie. affiliate links to gaming essensials.
3. Become a game tester – you can apply at gaming companies as a tester and test new games and get paid for it. This is usually an entry level job, but if its fun, why not? Just google for “apply for game tester” and you will see lots of links!
Well there you have it – playing games during lockdown and gettting paid for it!
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