Dive Into The Wonderful World Of What Makes Any Game Fun Part Or Not

Hi. I am AngryDucky. Duck from Russia and I like video games. I have been doing that stuff for more than a couple of decades now.
My podcast is called Duck in Games and it's - wait for it - about video games. The parts that are really important: gameplay, stories, experiences the game leaves you with. And not the marketing deals, PR stunts and game trailers. I do spend a lot of time playing games and analyzing them and I still enjoy them. Some games I stream on Twitch as MrAngryDucky and some I play on my own and then make a podcast episode on those. But the one thing is unchanged: I may like video game or not but I will try and get the most objective I can when analyzing any given game. Because games matter, gamers matter and - like it or not - video games are a medium of entertainment and they are not going anywhere anytime soon.

And it's awesome! If you are one of those admirers of video games of all shapes and forms or if you are just interested in this interesting relatively new interactive medium or if you are just can't have enough of a podcasts about video games, you are in for a treat! Duck in Games is just for you.

Tough question. Podcasts are a nice medium. I like podcasts because they make you feel like you are the part of the discussion instead of being just a bystander.

I wanted to share my knowledge of various video games I have experienced in my life. I want to share the love and appreciation of video games as a medium as much as I could and I wanted to do it in a form that allows me to be in contact with an audience. That's how Duck in Games was born in 2019. First episode took me just a few hours to record. I didn't do enough research and didn't expect me to be perfect in the first episode ever. Instead I tried to make it funny instead of informative. But as the time progressed the episodes took more work and more time. And I hope it shows.

The episodes used to be once a week, but the more complicated topics I tried to tap in the more time it took. And right now I take several hours per week to research some subject, then several hours of the other week to compose a script and a couple of hours on the third week to record the episode.

I have to take the time in the morning before my day job starts and sometimes it shows when you can hear tiredness in my voice. But it's worth it. Not in a money worth it. I don't really get anything for the episode. I do have Patreon and I welcome people to join it every episode, but I don't want people to be pressured into that kind of thing. After all, I am not doing it for money I do it because I enjoy it. (Although if you want to support me financially you are welcome to do so)

I didn't ever consider taking sponsorships but I might do it in future if the podcast ever becomes interesting enough for sponsors. So far I don't have any revenue from it.

But the podcast helps me to find good people all around the globe and share my love of video games with them.

First I do a research by playing the game, watching others do it, learning about the game development process and then - I write the script. It's a thing that requires very little specialized hardware and software.

For the recording and editing I use Reaper and the hardware chain goes like this: mic EV RE20 -> dbx286s -> M-Audio M-track audio interface. That helps me to get the nice sound. Although sometimes I do some experimentations with the audio.

And if I ever have people invited over, I use Discord. Usually I don't do invitations and make a solo podcast.

I have no idea. The podcast is out there. I try to collaborate with podcasters, streamers and people who are into video games. I have no idea where do I get the most listeners from because I don't bother a lot with stats, but I know that on every platform there is, there is a Duck in Games page.

I would say that social interactions with podcast creators brings in the most attention to the podcast. Some people get the episode or two and never come back, some people discover the podcast and even bother to write me something. I'm grateful for those people.
But for every episode out there I post a link on Twitter, Discord server and a link to podcasting subreddit.

On my podcasting journey I have learned that the numbers don't matter. You can have all the downloads in the world and still make a show you yourself find boring. The real meat is to like and enjoy what you are doing. Because when you have no listeners in the beginning it will be hard for you to see that 0 people took interest in your latest piece of work. That's when it helps to have passion for what you are doing. And if you don't - you are going to get discouraged pretty quickly.

Being a better podcaster is a journey and you will have to expose yourself to some good podcasts, learn about audio processing, maybe some video editing too. You will have to learn a lot and it might not be the subject you were interested in in the first place. But then again - if you want to be heard, you have to do it and you have to find some fun in it.

You can learn about audio gear on the Podcastage YT channel and you can learn a lot about audio processing from the BoothJunkie YT channel.

You can learn a lot about Duck in Games on the page that incorporates it all: duckracy.com

If you want to see my streams on Twitch, you are welcome to do so as well at twitch.tv/mrangryducky
Find more about me on twitter at twitter.com/ducky_angry
And - if you are so inclined - get early access to every episode on Patreon: patreon.com/AngryDucky

otherwise - you can always reach out for me by writing an email to mrangryducky(at)duckracy.com I read them all.