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Lifestyle Gaming Twitch

The Complete Guide to Twitch Streaming

Choose the right gear, design your stream, build community, and market your stream to reach a wide audience on Twitch.
Bestseller
Rating: 4.5 out of 54.5 (662 ratings)
3,179 students
Created by LVLUP Dojo, Reinessa Gaming, Sam Murray
Last updated 9/2018
English
English [Auto], French [Auto], 
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • Discover how you can identify your personality as a streamer
  • Improve the overall aesthetic of your Twitch stream
  • Identify the streaming rig that best fits your budget
  • Explore the best practices when it comes to setting up your Twitch account
  • Properly use bots within your stream
  • Market yourself as a Twitch streamer
  • Discover the culture of the Twitch community

Requirements

  • Familiarity with Twitch and other live streaming platforms
  • Live streaming software such as OBS or XSplit
  • Twitch account

Description

About the Course 

If you are an avid gamer who has a Twitch account and is looking for new, creative, and practical ways to start, build and grow your stream, then this course is for you.

This course focuses on all aspects of live streaming on Twitch. The instructors are both streamers, content creators, and industry experts that have been in the gaming space since its inception. Whether you are a streamer that is looking for resources to take your Twitch channel and community to the next level, or just an an avid gamer with aspirations to broadcast your talents to a broader audience - this is the complete guide to Twitch streaming. 

Throughout this course, we will be covering topics that are useful and necessary for streamers of all levels. Each section will contain lectures associated with the topic being covered, and will be accompanied by actionable activities to apply what you have learned to your own Twitch stream. 

Course Sections:

  • Introduction to Twitch 
  • Getting Started - Setting up Your Accounts and Softwares Needed to Stream
  • Gaming PCs
  • Stream Channel Aesthetics 
  • Streaming Bots and Extensions 
  • Streaming Best Practices 
  • Marketing Your Stream
  • Communities on Twitch

About the Instructors

Sam "Squallmuzza" Murray
Squallmuzza is a partnered Twitch streamer through his company Senshudotv, there is a good chance you have seen him or someone on the Senshudo stream team promoted on the front page of Twitch. Sam has personally assisted a number of streamers in getting partnered and has been part of some of the biggest streaming communities since their inception. His company, Senshudo creates systems around Twitch to provide analytics and data to help streamers grow their channels and better understand the data behind Twitch. You can go an connect your Twitch profile and each time you stream, the Senshudo dashboard will show you valuable information about your broadcast.

Reinessa 
Reinessa is a full time broadcaster partnered on Twitch. She began streaming in 2013 with a focus on Dota 2 content and has been partnered since June 2015. Since then she has been involved in a wide variety of gaming content creation. This has included cosplaying, YouTube highlights, weekly gaming news shows, and streaming popular competitive games and interesting indie games. She works with various organizations such as DreamHack, GinX, and Chaos to create and host written and video content. She is a BioChem PhD student in her other life

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone who has the desire to stream on Twitch
  • Casual gamers who want to broadcast their personalities or game play to a broader audience
  • Twitch users who want to understand how to grow their following and social media presence
  • Beginning streamers who want to understand the hardware that goes into a solid streaming set up
  • Those that are looking to start and grow a community on Twitch

Featured review

Amy Evans
Amy Evans
208 courses
11 reviews
Rating: 5.0 out of 55 months ago
This is a fantastic course for everyone who wants to lay down a strong foundation for creating a new Twitch channel. I highly recommend it! I'll definitely be rewatching it again periodically to help keep my myself on track. Thanks for putting this course together! I've learned a lot!

Course content

10 sections • 72 lectures • 6h 13m total length

  • Preview04:42
  • Preview05:01
  • What Kind of Streamer Do You Want to Be?
    07:38
  • Activity: What Kind of Streamer Do You Want to Be?
    02:26

  • Setting up your Twitch Account
    07:46
  • Streaming Software
    02:51
  • Setting up OBS
    07:49
  • Setting Up XSplit
    15:52
  • Setting up Stream Alerts (StreamLabs)
    13:01
  • Streaming Cameras
    06:36
  • Streaming Microphone
    05:32

  • The Importance of a Good PC
    02:02
  • Pre-Build or Self-Built?
    02:54
  • Activity: Budgeting for a Build
    01:57
  • Introduction to PC Components
    00:41
  • Processors
    03:50
  • Graphics Cards
    03:59
  • Motherboards, RAM, and Hard Drives
    04:16
  • Peripherals
    04:09
  • Where To Look For Your Parts
    05:15
  • Activity: Designing your Gaming Rig
    00:59

  • Stream Overlays
    07:08
  • Adding Graphics to OBS
    05:50
  • Advanced OBS Settings
    05:25
  • Additional Graphics
    08:13
  • Activity: Make Your own Graphics
    00:52

  • An Introduction to Bots
    01:03
  • MooBot
    05:41
  • NightBot
    05:44
  • StreamLabs
    11:42
  • Twitch Extensions
    01:57
  • Gear on Amazon Extensions
    04:39
  • Stream Schedule Extension
    03:53
  • Stream Labs Overlay
    03:33
  • Game Specific Extensions
    05:46
  • Activity: Choose Your Extensions/Bots
    01:15

  • Preview01:10
  • Starting from the Bottom
    06:04
  • Where are the Viewers?
    11:17
  • Scheduling
    04:03
  • Consistency
    06:09
  • Activity: Taking your First Steps
    01:07
  • Growth
    10:51
  • Use of Gimmicks
    05:47
  • Networking
    10:14
  • Activity: Networking for Yourself
    01:25

  • Preview01:24
  • Twitter
    06:48
  • Facebook
    03:41
  • YouTube
    06:59
  • Instagram
    05:28
  • Social Media Management
    06:51
  • Leveraging Social Media
    09:09
  • Activity: Signing up for Social
    00:59

  • Streaming Culture
    01:11
  • Preview09:09
  • Activity: Twitch Terms of Service
    01:28
  • Memes
    06:50
  • Stream Teams
    06:38
  • The Rest of Twitch
    05:23
  • The Element of Luck
    07:09
  • Sponsorships
    08:08
  • Monetization
    06:47

  • Introduction to Communities
    01:47
  • Discord
    06:28
  • Chat Moderators
    04:13
  • Linking Things Together
    02:54
  • Rules
    07:08
  • Activity: Writing your Rules
    00:54
  • Chat Interaction
    06:28
  • Trolling
    06:33

  • Recap and Next Steps
    02:57

Instructors

LVLUP Dojo
Exclusive courses for gamers, streamers and content creators
LVLUP Dojo
  • 4.3 Instructor Rating
  • 3,643 Reviews
  • 12,258 Students
  • 19 Courses

We’re a community of creators dedicated to designing a roadmap to success for gamers, streamers, and competitors. We only work with the best at their craft to share their knowledge and insights on gaming success into video courses.

If you are looking to build your brand, make content creation your full time job, or find the best ways to break into the eSports and gaming space, these courses will serve as your steps in accomplishing those goals.

Welcome to the Dojo

Reinessa Gaming
Freelance Gaming Host
Reinessa Gaming
  • 4.5 Instructor Rating
  • 662 Reviews
  • 3,179 Students
  • 1 Course

Reinessa is a full time broadcaster partnered on Twitch. She began streaming in 2013 with a focus on Dota 2 content and has been partnered since June 2015. Since then she has been involved in a wide variety of gaming content creation. This has included cosplaying, YouTube highlights, weekly gaming news shows, and streaming popular competitive games and interesting indie games. She works with various organizations such as DreamHack, GinX, and Chaos to create and host written and video content. She is a BioChem PhD student in her other life.

Sam Murray
Twitch Partner & Stream Team Manager
Sam Murray
  • 4.5 Instructor Rating
  • 662 Reviews
  • 3,179 Students
  • 1 Course

I've been around on Twitch since before it was known as Twitch. I've helped multiple streamers make it to partner and even more through to affiliate. I've learned all of the pitfalls and all of the best practices through years of analysis and experimentation which I'm happy to pass along to you all.

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