Extra Life 2016

We are extremely excited to announce our start of our fundraising for Extra Life this year. Last year was incredible and I was so happy that we were able to raise $511 for the Children's Hospital at Providence. Well this year we are going to be doing to bigger and better. 

First off it is a "we" this year, I will be joined with the personalities of your four friends play series and many more. We are also bumping up the goal this year from $400 last year to $1000 this year. We are also going to be setting up more rewards this year for different amounts raised.

$250 - The wonderful counter parts of four friends play are planning a surprise for this level. I, Stephen, don't know what this is.

$350 - Mystery Shots. When this is raised whomever is on stream are going to break away and go and make shots for someone else and we will drink them on stream when we are done.

$511 - Top donation shirt. This is what we raised last year, and after we do it again this year we will keep a look out for who donates the most by the end of it and the highest donated amount will be given a unique t shirt that is going to be created by us.

$650 - Shirts for everyone! After this amount is raised we will keep track of everyone who has donated over $35 and we will give them a Team Gotbeast Extra Life 2016 supporter shirt. Note that these shirts will be different from the top donation shirt.

$800 - A look at behind the scenes. We will have some extra people while we are streaming and we will have them filming us behind the scenes for set up and after it is done. Once it is all said and done I will cut together a behind the scenes video for everyone to enjoy on our YouTube channel.

$1000 - We did it! Once we have met our goal, we have had Nikki agreed to wax the legs of our male personalities. If we reach this before or during the stream then we will have the waxing done on stream, if after then we will have a separate video go up on our YouTube channel afterwards. 

$1500 - Stretch Goal. I have agreed to get my hair dyed a different color. If we raised 150 with in an hour of reaching this goal we will contact all who donate and do a poll of what color my new hair will be. 

$5000 - Born out of a bad decision. This is our far reach goal. If we raise this amount then all of the male personalities who are getting their legs waxed are going to get everything that we can show on stream/ YouTube waxed by Nikki. 

We have a couple on stream goals that we want to do and have rewards for it as well. 

We have been planning for a little while now and we have a pretty good schedule set up and we are excited to get going. 

We are starting from 3 pm on Saturday November 12 to 3 pm on Sunday November 13. Though we are accepting donations now and until a little after the stream ends. If you want to donate you can go to the front page of this website and there is a "donate now" link that will take you to the page for donations. Or if you want to you can get up with one of us in real life and give us your donations. 

All of the donations are going straight to the Children's Hospital at Providence. 

We all appreciate all of you in advance if you donate it or not, you guys are awesome.

Stephen  

Announcing Shows!

Alright, an actual post about upcoming content and not just ranting about technical problems! So I wanted to go ahead and write about some of the first shows that we will be releasing in the next few weeks, I have two confirmed projects, and one in the works at the moment. The plan as it goes right now is to hopefully be able to release at least one to two videos on the Youtube channel a week (you can find it on our external links page, go ahead and head over there and subscribe). 

So on to the shows:

Four Friends Play Horror

This show will be staring myself, Clarissa Evern, Jess Wilson, and Nikki Beck. We will sit down, turn off the lights, and play different scary spooky creepy games from start to finish, passing off the controller and doing commentary. The first game on the playlist is going to be Outlast, I have a few games on the list, but if someone has a good idea, or hears about a good scary game that comes out then let us know and we will play it.

Gotbeast Full Plays

This series will mostly be myself, every once and a while I'll have a guest on, possibly might go the route of having them on all the time depending on what people prefer. This will be all types of games and it'll be from start to end with me doing commentary. I have a bunch of games on the list for this one, but I'm very excited to say that the first game on that list will be the Kingdom Hearts 2.5 HD remake! Now to some that might not sound like a big deal, but for anyone who knows me pretty well then they know that is my favorite video game. Once again I have a pretty big list, but I am always open to suggestions. I'll try to alternate between games that I love to play, to games that have recently come out.

Team Gotbeast Squadcast

Myself, Clarissa, Jess, Nikki, and possibly guests if we have them will be recording podcasts once a week (if time allows) and then putting them on soundcloud (When we have our first released one then I'll have a link to it in the external links page). We will cover a range of topics from general talk to movies that we have watched.

STREAMS!

Well, I wish I had better news here, but fact of it is that I still have a lot of issues to figure out here. Where I am able to record game play, streaming it seems to be a little more difficult. That being said I'm going to be doing some testing when I get home and hopefully get that going again soon. Who knows, maybe I'll go back to using the xbox to do it. Once I get them going, I'm going to try to stream most days, except on the days that we will be recording.

Currently I am on slope sitting in my room as the weather is preventing me from working. I'll be up here for the next few days, then we will start recording when I get home. Hopefully not too long after that then I'll be releasing them. I'll give out notifications on facebook, both the page and on my personal one, and on twitter as well. Anyone that subscribes to the youtube channel will also see the notification when the first video go live.

That's all I've got so far, as always I love you guys, keep staying awesome.

Upcoming content

Instead of calling this a entertainment venture I really should call it a technical difficulties venture, because that's really all that has been happening since I started this. First my internet wasn't really good enough to stream on reliably, so I went through getting it upgraded and buying a new router, which wasn't the cheapest thing I've set money one for this. Then when everything should have been working I had purchased a video capture card, but the laptop that I was working off of decided that it didn't want to install the drivers, and wouldn't accept the ones that I had downloaded from their website. FINALLY after I fixed all of that, which wasn't difficult I'm just stupid (not really), I started to really worry about whether or not the laptop I was working off of could actually handle the streaming, and video processing and everything. So my brother offered to let me use his computer which could handle all that and then some. Only problem is: it is currently running windows vista. You know what doesn't work on windows vista? Every streaming program, well at least the ones that I plan on using. I know it sounds like an easy problem, just download or buy a newer operating system and install it, boom problem solved. That's what I thought too, so I bought and downloaded windows 10, figured I get it on the newest operating system. Little problem though, windows can't actually update from vista to 10, its too much of a gap. SO I need to update to something that is newer. So I'm not wanting to buy another operating system, plus they don't sell windows 7 in stores anymore, which is insane to me. I'm told that there might be a disk that my brother has with windows 7 that came with this computer, he just needs to find it.

SO what does this all mean? Well, to be honest, this is more of a rant just to get things off my chest. I've invested a lot of time, effort, and money in on this whole thing, and I'm only getting roadblocks at every turn. Though, its like they always say "nothing worth anything in this world comes easy". This is ultimately my dream that may or may not come true, so I know that I'm going to have to work long and hard at it. I mean, if anything I'll have a pretty cool website to look at by the end of this right?

This is getting a little long, so I'm going to wrap it up. The streams should be starting as soon as I get this computer finally running the way that it is supposed to be. Until then, I've recorded some podcasts and am currently working on editing so I can upload them and have at least a little bit of content out in the world. Thank you for reading if you took the time, you guys are awesome. 

Creating a website....

Okay, so I guess I'm going to start keeping a blog on here so everyone can keep up with me and everything that is going on. Right now I'm still learning how to use this to create a website. Turns out I suck at it. I have no idea on how to do anything on it. I just want solid colors! I'll probably edit this when I finally figure out how to actually do it, who knows. I think this is going to be good idea and a good way to keep up with my fans, if I ever have any. This is honestly more or less a test post to see what exactly happens when I post a blog. We will see how it goes. If I don't delete this post, or edit it, which may happen, then I want to thank you for taking the time to read this and actually follow what I'm doing. It means a lot