![]() ![]() GR: But not officially, right? What was that transition like?ĬS: I didn’t become an official broadcaster for Caves of Qud until 2020, and when that happened, it meant that my broadcasts were being shown on the game’s store page. I started doing Qud chill-streams to a small audience that included the developers as often as other fans. GR: How did you end up streaming Caves of Qud?ĬS: I’d been watching Leigh Alexander’s Lo-Fi Let’s Play series on YouTube, and I was so enchanted by the idea of a video game livestream where the host didn’t shout or get mad or raise their voice. The design lead noticed my fanworks and liked them enough that he hired me to make them canon in 2017. It was about one month before I started writing bits of micro-fiction about the species I’d dreamed up based on my favorite character builds. GR: How did you end up working on Caves of Qud?ĬS: I started playing the game in 2015 from a gift code that the lead programmer gave me. I have with me here Caelyn Sandel, additional writer and designer for Caves of Qud, indie experimental author, and voice of Grahu-Rubufo, Learned Snapjaw VTuber. GR: What if I were the interviewer? We could switch. GR: You asking me that question is weird! You should be answering that question.ĬS: I can’t answer questions, I’m the interviewer. I finish my tea as I wait for her to calm down. Wouldn’t you say, Caelyn?ĬS: I would say. It lets us try out different versions of ourselves. For indie queer streamers in particular! I feel like that’s why you’re seeing more and more of us as we catch up on the trend. Since queer people often have their self-expression minimized by the society they live in, there’s a lot of appeal in that kind of radical bodily autonomy. What’s more, you can look however you want! You can have a costumed human avatar like Tiffany Witcher, or you can be that one Vtuber who’s literally a houseplant. High-quality streaming equipment can be really expensive, but simpler setups are affordable to individual streamers who don’t have a company backing them up. Vtubers Bakooka Bilbapot and Grahu-Rubufo team up for a stream together Image: Caelyn Sandel Folk who can set fires with our brains if we try real hard. Folk with a bite that can pulverize bone. ![]() GR: But there are plenty of us in the villages, too-decent snapjaw people doing their best. Depressing, too, when you realize how much pressure there is on cubs to be part of the pack. Gutspillers! Tot-eaters! Troubling, nothing-that’s scary. Thanks to them, 90% of the snapjaws a wanderer runs into are gonna be just, the worst. loose alliance of snapjaw warlords that’s basically just taken over the hills and vales on the West side of Qud. GR: Yeah, that’s all accurate, and of course it’s troubling. In Polygon’s new series The Next Generation of Everything, we’re looking at what’s blowing up in the worlds and fandoms we follow, and what the latest shifts say about where Extremely Online life is going next.ĬS: You’ve described your own species as “the trash mobs of Qud.”ĬS: You play a lot of Caves of Qud yourself, right? So you yourself are killing scores of your own people, if only digitally. Every day on the internet, new micro-trends emerge, only to become old news five minutes later. ![]()
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