Prepare yourself for an engaging chat with Ravynia, an amazing Twitch streamer who possesses a wealth of gaming expertise. Get ready for a stimulating and thought-provoking chat with a fascinating person who wears several hats. In addition to being a dedicated player, Ravynia also creates content, designs dice, does voiceover work, and is generally a joy to have around. In this fascinating interview with Ravynia, we’ll delve into the origins of her boundless love for video games.
Ravynia is not your typical gamer; she is an all-around formidable individual with a taste for horror. She’s made her own niche in the gaming industry as a gamer, content creator, Twitch streamer, designer, and voice actress. Ravynia is a joy to interact with on and off screen because of her unlimited energy and many talents.
Follow along as we go on an incredible adventure with Ravynia, learning about her many talents, her experience with MAZER gaming, and her undying commitment to her art form. Learn how gaming and content creation may mutually benefit one another and pick up some useful tips on how to create a strong streaming community and establish ground rules.
The interview was arranged as a podcast-style video interview. However, the interview has also been transcribed below so that readers can focus in depth on the different topics covered.
Without further ado, let’s get into it…..
Paul
Welcome to Outsider Gaming. You’re here with Paul. I’m a content writer for the website, and I am so lucky today to be joined by the wonderful Ravi. If you don’t know who she is, there she is. Hello, Ravi. To put it kind of in really short, she does everything! She is a content maker. She is a Twitch streamer. She is a designer. She’s into glitter. I believe we might talk about that. Definitely into dogs, a dog expert. And loves all things gaming just as we do. So, hello Ravy. Nice to meet you.
Ravynia
Hi, How are you doing?
Paul
Good. I’m good. Good to finally catch up, for the people out there, I know loads about you because I’ve been stalking you for the last couple of weeks on all your kind of socials, Yeah.
Ravynia
I’m so sorry. I’m so Sorry.
Paul
HaHa! But one thing that kind of stuck out that I noticed and something that you might wanna kind of cover with us today, if you can, mazer gaming, you’re involved kind of with support and content support for major gaming. So can you tell me a bit about what you do for them or, or even what is Mazer gaming, if You can?
Ravynia
So Mazer gaming, what drew me to Mazer is they are an eSports organization, but they didn’t want to just support people who are creating content around eSports. They also wanted to support content creators who just love gaming and love making content. And so it’s nice that we’re kind of a family in that way, so we can kind of, you know, lean on each other to help in different ways. Sometimes the eSports guys will know more about networking and going to events and how to make those kinds of things happen. Whereas content creators might know more about the technical side of things. Like we can spend hours making videos and editing graphics and doing things like that where the eSports guys need to be playing the game competitively and doing their thing. So it’s nice to have kind of like this symbiotic relationship that we have. I like that it’s marrying like a love of gaming and competition and it kind of brings both of those sides together. And I think that that’s really cool.
Paul
Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Mm-hmm. as you said, like it’s not something that they’d have a skill in or a focus on because they’re there to play the games and compete, yeah.
Ravynia
Exactly, exactly! And so it’s cool to get to have like a little team of us that we’re kind of their cheerleaders, I feel like. I feel like us content creators are the cheerleaders for the eSports team. And then the eSports team are like our buddies that come to us for maybe advice on technical stuff. We’re on the streaming side of things or that kind of stuff, to help support them doing their eSports stream. So it’s just, it’s just really, it’s a really cool little community that we have going on. And I love a lot of the charity work and stuff that they do. And that’s what’s kept me around these last couple of years. I’ve been with Maser for a few years now, I think. Maybe even almost three years now. Yeah.
Paul
Yeah. I can see even from the website, there’s a kind of growing team behind them, which is fantastic to see. You mentioned streaming, so I mean, we know you, you have your own Twitch channel as well, you’re Twitch streamer. You’re a voiceover actress. I know you, as we mentioned, you have your own kind of design. You do your dice stuff as well.
Ravynia
Yes! I mean, I, I tell, I tell everyone I’m a jack of all trades, but a master of none HaHa
Paul
No! No! I mean, I would say you have a finger in all pies, I suppose it’s kinda, yeah, A little bit.
Ravynia
Yeah a little bit, A little bit. Yes.
Paul
But how, how do you find the time for all that? Because that’s, that’s a lot.
Ravynia
No, I would love, I would love someone to give me that answer. I, I don’t, that’s the problem. Uh, that’s usually the problem. I feel like, uh, I’m interested in so many different things, which is really exciting. But it’s, it’s kinda like comparing it to loving a lot of games, right? You love a lot of games. Sometimes you get really addicted to one, so you focus on that one for a while, and then the other ones kind of sit to the side, and then maybe that one gets a little stale so you refocus on something else. That is kind of how my life is. I feel HaHa. So my main passion is voiceover. I love voiceover acting more than anything in the world. I got into streaming because of voiceover, because I wanna be a voice and video games. Video games have been a part of my life as long as I can remember. Like back to being a wee small child playing Alice in Wonderland typing game on a computer in like 92 or something like that. It was, I mean, it’s been such a huge part of my life and I love how voice actors have been able to make me feel, uh, through gaming. And so I realized, as someone who’s been a performer, I’ve been a performer my entire life. Once I realized that, that was like a passion, I was like, oh, I need to go for this. And so I kind of tried streaming, um, because my cousin was always telling me, oh my gosh, you play games all the time. You should just be a streamer. And I was like, no one’s gonna wanna watch me play video games.
Like, no one’s gonna wanna do that. And he was like, well, you could make connections with brands and developers and stuff like that and, you know, maybe get, get work. My passion is indie games, so I really wanna do voices for Indie games. And he was like, that would be a great way for, you know, you to get your foot in the door. And he kind of talked me into it. And then literally, I mean, the first week I was hooked, I was like, this is so fun. I was like, this is so cool. You mean people are just gonna come in and we’re gonna hang out and play games together and like, talk about games. Like, all right, this is amazing! Like but voiceover is definitely the passion that kind of led to all the rest of this.
Paul
That’s where it started. Yeah?
Ravynia
Yeah. That’s where it started. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I guess gaming’s where it started, but yeah.
Paul
Well, I mean, like streaming, I suppose you’re, you’re kind of building your online presence anyway. And you’re building a fan globe and you’re getting out there, you’re getting out on social media and stuff promoting yourself, I suppose. Um, so I mean, like, streaming season has taken off like crazy. As you said, you, you couldn’t have imagined, you know, and I was the same. Like, I think I remember watching PewDiePie years ago, and I realized then there’s something there. I could watch this guy for hours, you know? And, it just seemed to take off. Em, there are loads of people probably wanting to be the next big streamer, be the next PewDiePie, whoever. What kind of advice would you give someone just starting out say on, you know, Twitch for example, as a streamer?
Ravynia
Well, I think it’s important for new streamers to manage their own expectations, but also the big question that I ask anybody who wants advice and they’re new to streaming, is always, why are you streaming? Mm-hmm. why? And I think it’s an important question to ask, and so many people just are like, oh, well, you know, I just wanna build a community and hang out with my friends. I’m like, okay, well there’s a lot of great communities out there and there’s a lot of places that you could go and meet friends. So why do you wanna build your own? What do you think is missing that you wanna build? And, and sometimes I feel like I just keep prodding until they’re like, well, I mean, really, it’s just that like, I wanna make just enough money that like, I can pay for my game habit. And I’m like, okay, well that’s a good place to get to. You don’t have to be the next ninja. You don’t have to be, you can, you can be, if you’re entertaining and you love being on camera and you find people that love watching what you’re doing and you get enough subscribers that might pay for your game habit every month. Yeah. And if that’s what you want, then look at you, you’re successful. And I think that that’s like an important thing. The other side of it is that I’m always big on my friends and with new streamers is that you need to set boundaries for yourself and you need to learn how to enforce those boundaries. If you’re gonna be running a community, you need to early on say what’s okay in your community and decide what’s not, and then figure out how you’re going to tell people that and how you’re going to enforce it and what the steps are for enforcing it.
Because in the beginning, I know, like I was really loose about some of the things that I’m stricter about now, and it hurt me, right? Because people, when you go back on something or you let something slide for a while and then you’re like, Hey, like, that’s not cool, man. Like, let’s not do that. People get really angry and it can be really hard on your mental health. Yeah. And it’s important to protect your space and protect yourself. So you need to decide, what’s important to me is a way that someone can’t talk to me maybe, or something that someone can make fun of that’s okay, but maybe this isn’t. And you need to set those boundaries. Even little things like self-promotion and stuff like that on your channel. Like, it’s important to set those boundaries and know what you’re comfortable with. It is okay to change your mind later, something you thought you were okay with, and now you’re like, you know, and I’m not okay with that. Yeah. But I think setting those boundaries are really important. In the beginning, people are just so excited to have anyone watching that they’ll let people get away with anything. And it’s like, that’s not the best way to build your community. Like, I promise you the right people will show up if you don’t allow the wrong people to stay. Yeah. So, and that’s kind of what I tell people.
Paul
It’s not just about having those, you know, oh, well I’ve three extra people, even though they’re, you know, they’re toxic or whatever. It’s like, well, I’ve got extra followers. No!
Ravynia
Yeah, Exactly. Exactly. You need to build your community in a way that’s organic and real with people that you would actually want to spend time with, with people that you actually like to talk to. Not keeping people around just for their views or for their money either.
Paul
No, absolutely. Yeah, for me, like , I could never be a streamer. I just, I just couldn’t. When I play a game, I’m just, I’m in the zone, it’s my kind of, you know, end of day de-stress. But I’m generally, I’m, I’m completely antisocial. I can’t talk or do whatever I, how do you kind of multitask because you’re, you’re playing a game. But you, and I think you’ve kind of nearly answered, you’re not really, you’re more focused on your, on your chat and on your people and on the conversations going on there. But how do you fill that air? Like you fill that space? And you do it very well, by the way. You absolutely do!
Ravynia
Oh, thank you, y’know, there’s a few little tricks of the trade, of course, but I think the main thing is, I don’t know, I think it’s different for every streamer. I really do. I think you have to kind of find what your balance is because there are people who are more competitive and who do really focus on the game and their chat kind of knows they’re talking amongst themselves while the person’s actually in the lobby, or, in the scene, or, in whatever. And in those moments, they’re just talking to their chat about what they’re doing, about what’s going on in their brain. And that’s kind of the interaction. Then when the match is over, they take a minute to like, read people’s reactions and talk about it that way. For me, I like to read stuff in more real time. Not that I don’t play games that do involve me having to be focused for a minute. I do try to find even games like that, that have little moments of lulls, whether it’s between lobbies or something that I can do without having to look at my screen, that I can glance at my chat quickly. Um, I prioritize chat like most of the time, but I’m also not like a top tier competitive gamer HaHa! So it definitely makes a difference.
I try to choose games that allow me to read my chat. One of my little tricks though, I will just say is sometimes for those of you who struggle with it, I know some people have a hard time and they need to read each line, finish your thought with one person, even if it means skipping a couple comments to finish, like your response to them and their response, and then go back and talk to the other person. That way conversations feel like whole moments instead of going back and forth between talking to this person about what they’re doing in this game and this person about their dog. And, you know, to be able to finish that thought with that person and then go to the thought with the other person, that helps.
Paul
Yeah. If you’re jumping back and forth and one line answers that, one line answers for that. Yeah. It’s not so much a story for people. And then obviously the choice, the choice of game then for you, that’s quite important then, Is it like? Will you, always kind of go to like kind of low level casual or, like what’s your go-to? What’s, what’s, what do you enjoy?
Ravynia
I like multiplayer games. I love to play games with my friends. I do stream a lot of solo stuff just because it does work for that cozy setting to just kind of sit back and talk and discuss with everyone. I’m definitely like an entertainer performer first when I’m streaming and my game is secondary most of the time. Um, I like to do a lot of little indie games as well. We do a lot of demo-ing and a lot of looking at smaller games. But I think I kind of split my time, my community Okay. I’m gonna show you the spelling of this, so nobody gets any ideas! My community calls my content ‘Horsome’ Cuz it’s Horror or wholesome. I’m either like screaming my face off in a horror game, playing ‘Phasmophobia’ or ‘Dead by Daylight’ or, uh, ‘Labyrinthine’. I mean, there’s lots of horror games that I love, or we’re doing something cozy and cute like ‘Pokemon’ or ‘Stardew Valley’ or, um, ‘Animal Crossing’, something in that realm as well. I’m super addicted right now to ‘Disney DreamLight Valley’. That’s kind of like my current, hyper-focus. But yeah, like you said, gaming for you is a de-stress. Well, it is for me too. When I’m de-stressing at the end of the day, I’m often playing something like ‘Apex’ or ‘Call of Duty’. Those aren’t games that I stream because they’re too focused in the gameplay. They involve too much of my focus. Yeah. And not about talking to my chat. So yeah. It is kind of funny that Ravy, while, while I do play ‘Disney DreamLight Valley’ and ‘Dead by Daylight’ and stuff off stream too, I have lots of games that people have never even seen me play, that I play a lot for de-stress that I just for me aren’t good streaming games. Like, I just don’t stream them.
Paul
Yeah. Speaking of ‘DreamLight Valley’, I am completely hooked! Well, I’ve gotten to the point where I’m nearly off it now thankfully. But I keep going back!
Ravynia
Oh but there’s an update coming.
Paul
You see, that’s it! Anytime they do an update, I’m straight back in and I’m grinding that star path and I’m loving every second of it! Like, it was sneaky because I thought, oh, it’s on Game Pass, you know, it’s not gonna cost me anything. I have two little ones that, y’know, love Disney. I was like, ah, I’ll sit with them and I’ll, I’ll give it a bash. And seriously. And, you know, after they’re gone to bed, I’m still playing. That’s like, yeah. I need to, you know, go to Scrooge’s shop, see what’s new. I have an everyday routine and I have to, I have to plant my pumpkins, you know, I have to make sure.
Ravynia
Yeah, you gotta Make that pumpkin money!
Paul
I’ve got millions, but I’m still like, I still have to keep going, I have to keep going!
Ravynia
Oh my gosh. I love that! Keep going. I Love that! Yeah. I’ve actually been, um, I love that game so much. I’m a huge Disney adult. Like, I’m like a psychopath. Like it’s stupid. I have Disney pins. I used to be an annual passholder with Disneyland. I got engaged at Disney World and my husband and I renewed our vows at Disney World. I mean obsessive, obsessive Disney person. So this game was like everything I could have ever wanted And, uh, So I’ve been actually, uh, pushing, um, for them to make me an official creator for the game. And I’ve been asking them every day on Twitter.
Paul
I saw that yeah. Is that going anywhere yet? Have they responded?
Ravynia
Um, They have seen the tweets. They have commented on a couple of them or liked a couple of them. So I’m, and every time they do, I’m just like……they’re here!! Drop everything! So, we’ll see. We’ll see. Uh, they have a really awesome creator team that I’ve already gotten to meet some of them, and they’re, they’re really cool. So I’m hoping, I’m hopeful. I’m hopeful. We’ll see. We’re in, we’re in a day like, we’re after 50 already, so We’ll see.
Paul
I mean, technically it hasn’t officially launched. It’s still early access, isn’t it?
Ravynia
It’s still in early access.
Paul
Like they’re obviously still milling over ideas. You just keep giving them more. Absolutely, who knows, who knows! HaHa. A similar game, and you mentioned it earlier, ‘Animal Crossing’. So what’s your favorite version? Is it, you know, on the Switch or is it going back to earlier versions of it, or, you know, which one is your go-to that you’d play more often?
Ravynia
Well, I mean, I have to say, you know, Celeste is the best. Uh, she, she, she is the best. I actually have an animal crossing tattoo on my shoulder blade. HaHa That my community picked for me. And it’s still got Celeste on it. It is ‘Animal Crossing New Horizons’ for me. 100%. I worked in gaming for a while and I always kind of saw the animal crossing games. I thought they weren’t for me. Younger Ravy, pre streaming Ravy, was a first person shooter girl! I played all the CODs. I was a hardcore ‘Destiny’ player. I played, you know, ‘Gears of War’, ‘Grand Theft Auto’, though I didn’t really do cozy games. There were a few that I really got addicted to and I loved, I was a big ‘Plants vs Zombies’ fan back in the day. That was my go-to cozy game. Yeah. I guess it’s got zombies, but, you know, it was my cozy game. So when the pandemic and everything hit and ‘Animal Crossing’ came out, um, the new ‘Animal Crossing’, I had played New Leaf a little bit with my cousin when I was younger and stuff, but I had never gotten super hooked. And when I, when I say the ‘Animal Crossing’ saved my life, I’m not joking, Like, there was something about, and I think we all kind of felt it, the energy for this one was different just because of when it came out, here was something that had a structure in it. For a bunch of people who just lost all their structure. Right?
Paul
Yeah. It gave you a day-to-day kind of yeah.
Ravynia
It did, it did. I had my routine of getting up and checking the shop and going, you know, to this place and watering my flowers and talking to each of my villagers and bringing them each gifts. And, then maybe I’d go to my friend’s island and bring them something that I found in my shop or whatever. And that routine I feel was just so positive. Everything about it was happy. Everything about it was exciting. My friends and I would have, and people in my community, we would have birthday parties on our islands for each other and stuff, and throw parties, that kind of interaction and that ability to do that. Or even just the ability to digitally send a gift to your friend where they were gonna wake up in the morning, depressed, you know, from being inside their house for, for three weeks and opened up their little thing and have a new little couch to look at that they had been looking at. It was so wholesome and so wonderful. And I meant, I mean, I met so many of my favorite streamers during that time. Some of my closest friends in the community I met because of ‘Animal Crossing’. Most of my, like, my closest community members we met because of ‘Animal Crossing’. I’m so grateful to that game because of what it gave all of us, you know? So ‘Animal Crossing New Horizons’ will be in my heart and soul and love until the day I die.
Paul
Yeah. Yeah. Like that, I think definitely, the timing was perfect. Everyone had loads of time on their hands all of a sudden and it just came out right smack bang when we needed it. Yeah. Really, really good.
Ravynia
It did, right when we needed it. Yeah. And we needed something cute. We needed something sweet where we weren’t yelling at each other and shouting and dealing with toxic stuff where it was just literally sending your friends, like presents going over to your friend’s house and bringing them a flower and planting it in front of their house like it was, so, it was just lovely.
Paul
Well you could Realize could still be mean! You just, you just had to be creative about being mean. HaHa
Ravynia
You’re right! There were situations of people being mean, but most of the time it was just wholesome. And then even if someone was mean, the rest of the community would be like, oh my gosh, my friend’s flowers just got trampled. And everyone would show up in droves to like, bring them bells and bring them flowers and, you know, it was just, it was just such a wonderful community. I can’t wait for the next game. I really can’t. I will….like goodbye world! Like I’ll just be lost in Animal Crossing.
Paul
It’ll be the Switch 2, I think before we see a new one, but who knows? Could be soon, hopefully, fingers crossed. So completely switching from the wholesome and the cute and the lovely, we’ll go on about some of your ‘Horsome’ games, so, uh, like ‘Dead by Daylight’, I’m familiar with, I’ve played a little bit of, I was more probably Friday the 13th I think, than ‘Dead by Daylight’. But, uh, I dunno how you streamed them to be honest, but yeah. Do you get a kick out of just getting the daylight scared out of you? Or, obviously your community does anyway!
Ravynia
Y’know I must! HaHa Maybe, I maybe need to talk to somebody about it because I definitely think some years have been taken off my life. Because I also use, like, I’m a partner with StreamLoots, which is a wonderful organization. I’m an affiliate with Dixper.gg as well. And so I have lots of ways for my community to just as I’m in the middle of, of something intense, to send something scary to the screen. So I have screamed so loud, I’ve blown my vocal cords out. I have, yeah, there have been moments where I’m just sitting there like, my brain cells are dead, you know, because I’m like, okay. Wasn’t expecting that one! And yeah, I do enjoy horror. I do enjoy that thrilling feeling of horror. It makes me giggle. It makes me giggly and stuff. I am a little picky with my horror. I don’t like, there’s some horror I don’t like, but, but for the most part, yeah, I just, oh, I do. I just love it. My husband thinks I’m a freak. Like he does. He’s like, what is wrong with you? He can’t even be in the room when I’m watching a horror movie. He has to be like someplace else. I know. And he’s a Marine! Like, he runs into bullets for work!
Paul
Now that’s really scary!
Ravynia
But yeah, when there’s a ghost on the screen. He’s like, Nope. Out, nope. Later. Like, he can’t. I dunno. I dunno what it is. I don’t know what it is!!
Paul
I quite like horror now. Not playing games as much as just watching films and stuff, but, I am thinking about ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ that’s coming really soon. I think I’ve seen a couple of videos on YouTube. Yeah. It looks like a kind of faster version of ‘Friday the 13th’ with more things to do.
Ravynia
Yeah, and there’s multiple killers. Yeah, it Looks interesting. I’ve been watching some of my friends play it, and I think that it looks really, really good. I didn’t get into the test as I just, I’m, I just haven’t had time. But, um, I, I do really like it. I think it’s gonna be something I’m gonna be super into. I really do. Not only that, it’s ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’, but just that style. I love multiplayer. I love that kind of working with your friends against someone, you know? I think it’ll be a good time. it’s coming, I think August 18th actually, I think is like its official launch date.
Paul
So can we expect to see you playing that one, streaming hopefully?
Ravynia
Yeah, I think so. Yeah, hopefully. I’m very much looking forward to that one. It’s right up my alley with games like ‘Dead by Daylight’ and whatnot. Yeah. It’s actually funny you keep mentioning ‘Friday the 13th’. So I worked for GameStop when ‘Dead by Daylight’ and Friday the 13th came out in the same week. They kind of competed with each other. Yeah, and I told my friends, I was like, I’m only buying one. Like, which one do y’all wanna play? And they were like, well, I don’t know. I mean, I kind of like the idea of ‘Dead by Daylight’, but I think that, you know, ‘Friday the 13th’ is gonna be the bigger game. And so I’m like, okay, well what do you want me to get? And they were like, well, yeah, get ‘Friday the 13th’. Yeah. We’re not gonna play Dead by Daylight. So, um, I get ‘Friday the 13th’, we go to play it the next day. They’re like, yeah, so we’ve all bought ‘Dead by Daylight’ and I’ve been playing ‘Dead by Daylight’, and that’s better than Friday the 13th. And I was like, are you kidding me? And so I was like, no. I was like, no, I’m not getting this other game. You said you wanted to play ‘Friday the 13th’. And so they ended up gifting me ‘Dead by Daylight’. So that I could play it with them. And now seven years later, I’m still playing the stinking game.
Paul
Well, It’s the successor to be honest, like it’s still getting updates, it’s still getting new content. I think Nicholas Cage is coming into it soon, isn’t that right? Um, which is weird, but yeah, should be fun.
Ravynia
Yes. Weird. And it’s very weird.
Paul
But we don’t know if he’s a killer or a survivor?
Ravynia
We don’t, I’m actually kind of hoping he’s a killer. I’m really hoping he’s a killer. Yeah. Um, I think that it’s cool though. Some people are like, oh my gosh, Nick Cage and all this stuff. I think, I think, the game is at its point now that it should start doing some ridiculous stuff, you know? Because I feel like I could, there’s a lot I could say about ‘Dead by Daylight’, but just how the game was, they didn’t think the game was gonna be what it is, right? They didn’t expect it to have this life and for it to take off like this. And so then when they, when devs built the foundation of the game, they kind of felt built it with some bad cracks, or we’ll even say some safes that they kind of can’t lock into to fix some of the problems the game has. So yeah. They’ll have to make a whole new game eventually, you know, to give us something different. Um, and that’s, that’s, you know, kind of exciting, but also kind of scary when we’ve put so much money and time into this game. But we know a ‘Dead by Daylight 2’ has to come at some point, right? So I’m hoping that it’s kind of soon, like in the next, in the next year or so, and then they’re gonna give us these kind of fun silly things for now. And then also eventually, you know, maybe put some of that fun silly stuff into the new game too. So we’ll just, we’ll see, we’ll see how it goes.
Paul
It should be fun. Hopefully! Hopefully, we hear news about it soon. So I know you’ve done a lot of different things and I know you’ve been streaming a lot lately, but I know also you’ve got a project that you can’t really tell me a lot about. But can you tell me something about it that you’re working on at the minute.
Ravynia
So I am really passionate about a voiceover project that I’ve gotten to be a part of over the last year, which is the ‘Night Shift’ podcast, which you can listen to anywhere that you listen to podcasts on Spotify, Apple Music. It’s a fantasy audio drama with magic and all kinds of awesome stuff! I’m really passionate about the project, not just because it’s good. Not, just because everyone that I’ve listened to has been, oh my gosh, I never even thought I could listen to something like this. And now I’m completely addicted. I’m getting texts from friends, like, oh my God, what about this? Like, what episode are you on? I’m like, oh, keep listening. You know. But because the team is just so amazing. The writers are all just absolutely an incredible group of people. It’s such a diverse, diverse group of people. It is so LGBTQA positive, all of our characters who are queer are voiced by queer voiceover actors. It is just such a joy to be part of something so joyful and being done by such an incredible group of people. So I voice, dagger, who is a kind of sociopath. And so that’s a lot of fun. As well she has tattoos all over her body that she can bring to life with magic, which is pretty freaking cool for a criminal. Uh, to just be able to pull a knife outta your skin.
Paul
That’s handy!
Ravynia
Yeah, it’s pretty handy! I kinda wish I could do that. Like, that’s pretty cool. But we actually got funded for a second season, after winning an audio award, in the UK for season one. Our lead writer, Julian, is based in the UK. And, so It actually got funding for a full season two. It’s in development right now. They are working on it, writing it, and getting everything set and should be getting scripts and things out to the actors here very, very soon. And we’re gonna be starting season two. So I’m very excited, love to be back doing the thing that I love the most, which is voiceover, but also went such an incredible project with just such seriously, like, I know everyone says that I love everyone I work with, I LOVE EVERYONE I work with! I’m honored to be among them, they’re friends and colleagues. Like, they’re incredible. Truly. Yeah.
Paul
Well, it’s clearly successful. I mean, the green light for season two is amazing. That’s brilliant stuff!
Raynia
Yeah, we just, we just hit everywhere. Anywhere you can listen to a podcast, you can listen to it. And we just hit a hundred thousand downloads. Wow.
Paul
So, wow! Very good, amazing. Amazing! Well done, well done. Yeah. Sounds brilliant. So you can’t tell us anymore, even no little hints for season two?
Raynia
Erm…No no little hints for season two, honestly, because I don’t have a script yet! HaHa
Paul
Okay, HaHa
Ravynia
So no, they keep us in the dark as much as anyone else. And, even when I get my scripts, I feel like Tom Holland sometimes because like, they only send me my lines. So my lines and the scene, the lines of people around me, so I know how to react to them. But I had, for the very last episode of the season, a very intense couple of scenes, in the very last episode. And I didn’t know what happened at the end for like two months until it aired. And I’m just sitting around like, and my mom is asking me questions about like, well, I think this is gonna happen and I think this is gonna happen. I’m like, I can’t, I, I plead the fifth. Like I have a non-disclosure agreement, stop talking to me. And because I, I know this massive thing is going to happen, but then I also, even though I had all this information, I also didn’t like, cuz I didn’t know how it was gonna end after all of my scenes, torture!
Paul
Yeah, the bigger picture. Well I’ll definitely get tuned in and I’ll definitely listen to season one. Sounds amazing. Sounds brilliant.
Ravynia
Yeah, It is. If you like, if you like sci-fi fantasy stuff, like yeah, you’ll like it.
Paul
You, you had me sold at pulling tattoos out! I mean, you could have your Animal Crossing buddies, you know? Yeah. HaHa.
Ravynia
Exactly, HaHa.
Paul
Speaking of good things and happiness and happy moments, um, going back to gaming, do you have one, and it’s quite cheesy, but maybe you’ve got one in particular, one moment you can remember from gaming that’s maybe your happiest……or not!
Ravynia
Oh Man, you know, I feel like I’m so blessed. I feel like I have a lot of personal, really happy moments. Okay. I’ll give you a cheesy one and I’ll give you a nerdy one. My community is incredible and I know everyone says that, but you know, I love them. They are my ride or dies and they, a couple, uh, it was last year. I like to, when I do charity events, I like to raise money for like a local organization where we can really see the impact. I love the huge organizations that people support. There’s so many great ones out there, but you know, as community leaders we can’t support every single one. Right? Like we all don’t have, uh, unlimited funds. I wish, you know, and so I like to do, and we love dogs like you mentioned in our community. So I like to support a local dog shelter. And I had a goal to raise a thousand dollars for this organization where I was living at the time in Louisiana. And they were really having a hard time making it month to month to take care of their, like 50 animals they had at a time, or often they were five over their limit and stuff. And I was like, if we could just raise a thousand dollars for them, that would be so impactful.
We raised over $2,000 for them in a 12 hour stream and it literally paid for the food of every animal in that shelter for an entire month. And like, so that was like the way to think about it, and I got to go to the shelter and like see the dogs and see them get their food and like, it was just so amazing to know that like, that relief and that stress was taken off of those people, that they could focus money in other ways in medicine and on things that they needed. To know that every single one of those animals was paid for by my community was like, like just that blew my mind. It blew my mind.
And then cheesy, nerdy thing, I was back when I worked for GameStop, I would go to these E3 events for Microsoft. And I’m a big, I was always a big Microsoft nerd before I gave my soul to the pc! And, ‘Gears of War’ is like my all-time, you know, favorite, favorite game series ever. And while I was there, they had, it was the Gears of War, the revamp that came out and there were people there talking about it. And some guy from Forza came over and was talking to the Gears guys. And I overheard him talking about how he had worked art direction for the original gears, the original three. And I’m just like, so I’m just like, you know, fan girl! And so I literally stalk, I stalk this man! Yeah. Um, cause I was by myself at the event. I just had a ticket. So I went because why wouldn’t I, you know, and I just like stalking him back over to the Forza area. And I’m like, hi, I’m sorry I’m stalking you. I heard you just say to them that you worked on Gears one through three and he is like, oh yeah, like I was one of the art directors for the original three. And so we just stood and just talked about Gears of War and he told me like, different plans that he’d had for different character deaths and things like that.
That was one of the coolest, most joyful, I was like a little kid seeing their hero, like talking and just getting to hear their perspective. I mean, game devs are just so, it’s just so creative. I love seeing behind, you know, behind the scenes and how their brains work and how they came up with different things. And um, that was an amazing, amazing moment for me.
Paul
Wow. Yeah. I don’t think anyone could top that! And that sounds amazing. Brilliant, brilliant! So taking it from happy to rage now! HaHa. So even I thought about this before asking and I was thinking like, what moments did I just completely rage quit and I only really have two and really there’s only one. Because you know, the first thing that jumped out at me was Elden Ring and I was obsessed.
Ravynia
Oh well you did that to yourself!! HaHa
Paul
Yeah, but that’s the thing. It wasn’t actually that bad!It wasn’t a rage quit, but towards the end it was like, yeah…… .the last two bosses … just insane. But it wasn’t a rage quit, but it was more a, you know, I can do this. I’m nearly getting there and it’s just, you know, I made a little mistake there. So you felt like you were making progress, which is why that game is so good. It’s why it’s so special, but yeah, so not really rage quit coz it was a case of, walk away, come back again and get it done. So my only real rage quit and this still haunts me, is Mad Max. I dunno if you played Mad Max, it’s really good.
Ravynia
Oh I did play Mad Max. It’s an excellent game.
Paul
Yeah. I’d say, you know, I’d done almost all the side missions, I’d done almost everything in the game. Went to the last mission. And then the last mission was driving, which I was okay at cuz you know, you to take the convoys and stuff during the game which was fine, but that last mission was just painful. Like, I just could not do it. it’s, it’s like it was a different game all of a sudden. And you were locked into it! Oh yeah. And I just, I like 20 goes and got destroyed and I was like, no, I’ll walk away, I’ll come back. I’ll do it, I’ll go calm, I’ll come back, I’ll do it on a different day. And I’d say I had that same conversation with myself three or four times. Did it three or four times and no, I literally had to just give up! I’ve never seen the end of that game. And now I don’t want to!
Ravynia
Yeah, I’m that way with a game. I’m exactly where you are with The Cult of The Lamb. I tried to beat that final boss like on stream, on two different streams.
Paul
I’m playing that now. It’s so much fun.
Ravynia
And you know, I don’t think, okay. I don’t think it’s that hard. I think it’s me. So I’m really not good!
Paul
I’m very early on.
Ravynia
I’m so, okay I’m blind in my right eye and I’ve always had, like a hard time with anything if there’s too much stuff happening on the screen. Which is why I was always a first person shooter per gamer. Right. Because everything is right in front of me and this is what I need to focus on. If I am top down or something, I will be like, I’ll be hitting my teammates! I’m just like, not even, I can’t tell. So, so anyway, I think that that’s part of it. It’s just, I’m just not good at games like that as much as I am like a first person. So yes, I’ve had to, I didn’t, I haven’t rage quit. I’ve like, I’ve inner rage walked away. Like I’ve just been like, okay, so y’all, that was fun. We’re gonna go play some Disney and I’m gonna calm down. They’re like, what? You’re not gonna go again? No, no, no. I’m done.
Paul
Ha ha, Love it.
Ravynia
I was like, 10 times was enough tries and now we’re going to go play something else because I don’t want to rage quit. I have absolutely rage quit before. I rage over people being toxic. I don’t rage over games. I rage over people being toxic in games. So I was a big COD player, you know, back in the day. Which meant I pretty much couldn’t talk because I don’t know if you know much about women playing Call of Duty, but it’s not great for us often!
Paul
Yeah! I mean the stuff on the mics is just disgusting.
Ravynia
Yeah, it’s disgusting. So, I often either had to be in a private chat with friends and just not talk to other teammates or whatever. But those few times that I thought, oh, these guys seem cool! Hey guys, I’m, uh, yeah, I’m rushing Bravo. And there’s like <rarrgh>, and I’m just like, yeah, I’m just killing my teammates now. Like I don’t care. Like I’m throwing the game now. So those are probably some of the only times I’ve ever really raged quit. I will say when I worked for GameStop though, when people would come in to purchase Dark Souls. I am not lying when I would just upsell them an extra controller cuz I would be like, Hey, you’re gonna throw your controller against the wall playing this game. Right? So you wanna buy this, you have a backup now so you can just plug it in and not have to come back here. Or, you know, And they would just, and and some of them would be like, no, ha ha ha ha. And some of them would be like, you know what, that’s thinking ahead and they would buy it. HaHa
Paul
Ha ha, I love it. I love it. Brilliant. I’ve got just one last thing. Before we finish off, I just wanna say to anyone watching or listening or wherever you’re getting this information, or if you’re on the OutsiderGaming website or if you’re on YouTube, just if you like the content, please hit like and subscribe. If you don’t, shame on you, but, you know, tell us why? Leave us a comment, let us know what we’re doing good. What we’re not doing great. And just the last thing I wanna say Ravy is, where can people see you and get you and what have you got going on right now?
Ravynia
I am either Ravynia or Ravynia Gaming pretty much every, on all of the different socials. Especially on TikTok, you can find me at Ravynia Gaming. If you wanna check out my custom made dice for Dungeons and Dragons, you can check that out on Kofi at Natty Twenty. That’s nattie twenty, just like the number spelled out, uh, to check out some custom handmade dice!
Paul
Amazing, amazing. Brilliant. Thank you so much for today. It was absolutely brilliant.
Ravynia
Thank you for Having me.
Paul
Awesome. Let’s do it again soon.
Ravynia
Yeah, sounds good.
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