7 ways to make easy money with gaming
By: Shivansh Singh
Tags: Money, Gaming, Live Streaming, Mobile, Careers

Exciting, isn’t it? Here are 7 sure-shot ways to earn money in gaming:

1. Start a YouTube Channel ▶️

Old is gold. With YouTube being one of the best earning platforms, creating a YouTube channel is one of the most lucrative forms of making money. The channel, Total Gaming is one of the largest Indian gaming channel with a net worth of $8.3 million dollars as of August 2020. It mainly consists of recorded videos and streams put together. But let’s talk about streaming a little later in the article.

You can make different kinds of gaming content like:

👉🏻 Using fun commentary to the games to make them more interesting.

👉🏻 Helping people improve their game with tips, tricks and guides.

👉🏻 Recording play-throughs of new and old games to help make the game

more immersive for viewers.

The money mostly comes from Ad revenue on YouTube. To qualify for such a partnership you need to have at least:

Once you achieve these milestones, you can start making money from ads on YouTube, which is one of the many revenue streams you can choose.

Some of the popular YouTube gaming channels are Tanmay Bot Army, Dynamo Gaming, PewDiePie and Mortal Gaming.

Here’s a video on how to start a youtube channel:

2. Become a Game Streamer 📶

Live Streamer is a person who sits in front of a camera and plays games in real-time for the world to see. The possibilities are huge for gaming as you can literally stream any game.

With a budding ‘E-sports’ scene and casual ‘Lets Plays’, the money comes from viewer donations and add sponsorships, making it a highly attractive career option as well.

YouTube’s donation service is called Super Chat .

Viewers can use small donations or “tips” to pin messages in your channel’s chat window, making them more noticeable. YouTube also lets users buy chat animations called Super Stickers, and you get a cut of each purchase.

. Viewers can use small donations or “tips” to pin messages in your channel’s chat window, making them more noticeable. YouTube also lets users buy chat animations called Super Stickers, and you get a cut of each purchase. Twitch allows viewers to “Cheer” using Bits

If you’re a Twitch affiliate or a partner, you get around a cent for every Bit viewers use when cheering. The viewers get to write a message that appears together with a special kind of emote, a Cheermote.

Youtube’s Superchats and Twitch’s Emotes

One of the biggest advantages of streaming is that it can create real-time engagement as compared to passive engagement in recorded videos and the direct interaction between the streamer and their audience makes their brand standout as compared to other mediums.

Some popular streamers are Tanmay Singh (A.k.a Scout), Adil Sawant (a.k.a Dynamo), and Samay Raina (a.k.a MaiSamayHoon).

Note: There’s something exciting around livestreaming for you at the end;)

3. Compete in Tournaments 🏆

Although, it’s not a sure fire way of earning money (unless you’re really really good), winning competitive tournaments in games like Call of Duty, PUBG Mobile, Fortnite, etc. can earn you a lot of money.

The PUBG Mobile Campus Championship 2020 is an upcoming tournament where the first place winner for the last tournament of ₹15,00,000 was bagged by the team “Terrifying Nightmares”.

With E-sports getting some steam in the last year or so, there are a lot of E-sports organizers which conduct daily scrim tournaments on a small to medium level and then take part in bigger tournaments with the best players.

Some eSports organisers/teams who conduct daily/weekly tournaments

You can always start small. Check out Instagram.com/turnip_live for exciting competitions and tournaments and earn exciting prizes.

4. Become a Game Developer 👨🏻‍💻

If you love playing games, then you may enjoy making them too. With the increase in popularity of mobile games, many gaming companies have come up in India to tap into this large market of Indians who love playing games.

Farmville, one of the most played games on Facebook, is created by Zynga, a company based in Bengaluru, India. The artistic, upcoming and talked about games like Raji: An Ancient epic, is developed by Nodding Head studios, based in Pune, India.

Y ou can also make a game on your own and sell it to a company like Markus Person, who sold his game “Minecraft” to Microsoft for $250 crores. 😱

5. Get Signed on an eSports Team 😎

Esports has always existed in India. Since DOTA (Defence Against The Ancients) came out. But it has opened up to a whole new level, ever since PUBG made its way into the country. As mentioned earlier, eSports is a field that is projected to generate $200 crore this year, and the Indian gaming eSports scene is definitely going to have a slice of that pie.

Some popular eSports teams that take part at the bigger level are:

Top: Team Soul; L: Team Orange Rock; R: Team TSM Entity

Real money gaming is also a popular type of gaming where competitors can pay a small fee to enter a competition based around simple arcade games. The winner walks away with more than they put in, while the losers lose their money. Many critics have called real money gaming a form of online gambling, and that is why you won’t find them on any app store.

6. Become an Esports Moderator 🎙

Much like how physical sports like Cricket, WWE, etc. has commentators, eSports also has commentators to keep their audience hooked with the game. While the work of an eSport commentator may be a lot harder than traditional sports, it is equally rewarding. In the same way, casting and moderating for streamers can bring in ad revenue.

If you can engage a crowd by doing some awesome commentary, then you can reach out to some eSports team to start your career in eSports as a moderator.

Hear Ketan ‘K18’ Patel and Ocean Sharma doing mind-blowing commentary for PMCO India (PUBG MOBILE CLUB OPEN 2020):

Credits: PUBG MOBILE Esports Youtube Channel

7. Create & Sell Video-Game-Merchandise 👕

Video games are a part of our culture, just like movies and tv shows. So if our friends can get a thousand different merchandise ranging from t-shirts, cups and props; why the hell can’t video games. We like to collect tokens from video games that are inspiring, emotional or just downright cool to look at.