Here are some friends, acquaintances, and other folks I’d recommend visiting. Most of them also stream on Twitch, and many of them are game developers and artists. All of them are talented people working on wonderful things that are worth your time.
unsecretcrush
unsecretcrush is my wife and occasional co-host. On her own channel, she primarily streams Genshin Impact, with a focus on story and lore. Other stream series have included Persona 3 and NieR: Automata.
Silver-Streak
Silver is a sentient AI VTuber, occasional co-host, fellow fan of adventure games, and incredibly kind person. He streams a wide variety of games, often tied together with a theme.
Nina Freeman
Nina is a game developer, currently working on Size Zero, her own department store horror game, and Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, a narrative adventure from DON’T NOD. She also streams a variety of games with insightful commentary.
Julia Minamata
Julia is an artist and game developer. She recently released The Crimson Diamond, an EGA, text-parser adventure game inspired by The Colonel’s Bequest. On Tuesdays she streams spoiler-free pixel art work for the game, followed by an EGA adventure game.
pixel_turkey
pixel is a an artist and game developer currently working on two upcoming adventure games with gamedevjeff. They recently released The Zen of Kayaking, a text adventure game inspired by Infocom classics. She streams retro adventure and puzzle games with chill vibes and impressive determination.
Boltimoore
Bolt has a weekly adventure game series called Midweek Point + Clique, regular Rocksmith bass guitar streams, and more.
Deivore
Deivore is an artist and game developer who streams pixel art and speed runs. Recent games include Perilous Night and Perilous Wilde.
Emmxyzzy
Emmy streams weird DOS games in the best way possible, recently translated The Secret of Donkey Island with Sonneveld, and makes themed DOS game music playlists.
Sonneveld
Sonneveld is a game developer that reverse engineers games. He translated The Secret of Donkey Island with Emmxyzzy, patched some crashes in Father World with gamedevjeff, and translated 20th Century Frog to English. He also streams a variety of adventure games and has many good dogs.
OK Retro
Retro is an artist and game developer. They often stream work on their game The Skeleton King.
Jess Morrissette
Jess is a professor and retro variety streamer who often plays adventure games. He’s also one of the creators of Stair Quest and the creator of The Video Game Soda Machine Project.
Michael Klamerus
Michael is a game developer and founder of the Michigan indie games collective Locally Sourced. They also write about retro and indie games, with a focus on local game developers from Michigan.
OneShortEye
OneShortEye is a speedrunner that makes videos about classic adventure games, with a focus on speedrunning. They’re fun and easy to follow even if you’re not into speedrunning. I make several brief appearances in The Game That’s Nothing But Stairs.
Dronon
Dronon is the author of the definitive English guide to Maupiti Island. They occasionally stream point-and-click and text parser games on Twitch.