How to Make Money Through Online Gaming– Monetizing Your Hobbies
Have you ever wondered how much money you could have made for every hour you have played video games? I wish I had started doing these 7 things sooner to make money online. The video game industry earns billions of dollars each year. Gamers and developers all over the world support this industry with undying enthusiasm. Players can choose from free games, paid games or games that fall somewhere in between where you can make in-game purchases but are free to download. Let’s take a look at all the ways you can make money by playing video games.
Becoming a Gaming Content Creator
Making Tutorials and Game Guides
Playtesting and Quality Assurance Testing
Esports and Gaming Tournaments
Swagbucks, Mistplay and Freecash
Becoming a Gaming Content Creator
To film yourself playing and reacting to video games became a popular genre of YouTube videos in 2012. In 2015, YouTube launched Gaming YouTube as a vertical-orientation app to compete with the popular online streaming platform Twitch. You can additionally live stream on platforms such as YouTube, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook and X.
If you are any good at the game, your gameplay can help viewers pick up on tips and tricks and improve their gaming skills, or maybe they will just stick around for your commentary if you are articulate. Creating a strong sense of community among your viewers by actively interacting with them and giving them an insight into your life can help you create a loyal fanbase and regular viewers.
Streamers often receive donations and gifts from their viewers on such platforms. Growing your platform can help you find brand sponsors looking for content creators to endorse their products and brands. Paid partnerships, sponsored videos, as well as ad cents, are ways through which you can earn money on YouTube.
Making Tutorials and Game Guides
You can offer a subscription for your Discord server, where you make on-demand walk-throughs for newbie gamers who would appreciate these tutorials and guides. You can also use the Discord server as a way to interact with your audience better and learn more about their interests. This research can help you create content that more viewers will engage with and let you have a continuous flow of ideas for your videos. If you have the skills to make your website, you can also post these on the website and monetize it through Google Ad cents.
Becoming a Game Developer
If you have the skills to code, and the passion to create your own game, it is never too late to start. To begin you can start making game mods for popular games and with time you can expand to a whole game by itself. The developer of Stardew Valley (a very popular farming game), Eric Barone, started without the intention of becoming a developer. But his game blew up and was extremely well-received. There are numerous, single user-friendly game engines (software with a suite of functions that enable game development) Unity, is the most popular amongst them. Some others include Godot, RPGMaker, Unreal Engine, etc. A lot of these game engines also do not require you to know how to code extensively or have a very rudimentary knowledge of programming languages. They are great tools to kickstart your game dev journey and unleash your creativity, letting you share them with the world. A lot of the mentioned game engines are free to use.
Playtesting and Quality Assurance Testing
If you are a skilled gamer or know about game development, most gaming companies throughout the world hire Playtestefs and QA staff. Their job is to play the alpha (very early stage) version of the game, and find vulnerabilities, exploits within the game’s systems or bugs, and then report them back to the developers so these can be fixed. Playtesters are required to think outside the box and find numerous ways to “break the game”. They are also required to think of every possible thing an average player might want to do and then find any bugs within them so they can be patched. This can be a very lucrative and enjoyable way of indulging in the hobby and making a living at the same time. There are YouTubers like Let’s Game It Out and The Spiffing Brit who play video games on their channel to break the game’s systems and are quite successful.
Esports and Gaming Tournaments
Competing in Professional Esports leagues and tournaments may be difficult, but once you become a professional, your opportunities are endless. Contests held at local regional levels can be easier to compete in to start with. There are numerous BGMI, PUBG, League Of Legends, and Dota 2 competitions held worldwide. These players compete for a prize pool of USD 40 million in the top tournaments like The Internationals, with winners ending up earning millions. However, to compete in these tournaments, you mustbe extremely skilled at the particular video game. Several YouTubers specialise in training and providing tips to amateur players to level up their skills in various video games.
Swagbucks, Mistplay and Freecash
Completing offers on apps such as Swagbucks, Mistplay and Freecash can give you gift cards and PayPal Money. But beware of the bingo and casino games that ask you to pay to play each time, we highly advise against these kinds of games.
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Gambling
Although I would not recommend this one, there are multiple online games in which you use your mere luck. I found this list on a Quora post by user Nitin Kashyap, to make some money by wagering on chances and beating the odds.
- Dream11.com
- Paytm First Games
- Qureka
- Loco
- My11Circle
- Ace2Three
- 8 Ball Pool
- Pokerbaazi.com
- Rummy Circle
- QuickWin App
- Winzo
This was my quick and simple guide to earning money online quickly by playing games. If you enjoyed this article, do not forget to upvote it and share it with your friends who may also like it. Thank you for reading, I will be back next week with more internet chatter, comment below what topics you would like me to write about next month. Until then, goodbye!