mavitivo

Mavitivo or Mav for short has been grinding away creating content for the last five years where he produces a variety of content including IRL & FPS Streams, Mav mainly plays game like Rainbow Six Siege, Hunt: Showdown & APex Legends, Mav has received numerous awards and has been around the creator scene from some time, Mav hosts plenty of community based game nights and other stream based content so be sure to check him out.

Hey Mavitivo, First of all, we would like to thank you for chatting with us today. How have you been?

I’ve been good thank you, tired and working on myself, pretty much like everyone else, but good, focusing on the blessings and people around me!

It’s great to hear you are doing well and focusing on the people around you just don’t burn out! So let’s start from the beginning, tell us a little bit about your streaming & Content Creation life, how long have you been streaming/making content and what made you want to start?

I’ve been creating videos since I was a little kid, used to record videos off a Sony Cybershot camera from like 2002. My first proper entry into streaming/content creator was when I hosted a newcomer stream for Dota 2, to about 2 people. Ultimately I wanted to create a space where people could play games with each other, and I had people to play games with, as when I was a kid gaming was not cool.

However I now have a community where people have met each other, play games and have met in real life, even in March we have about 3-4 people flying over to hang out, so I can safely say I achieved what I originally set out to do.

Wow well isn’t that a throwback mentioning the classic Sony Cybershot, It’s great to see you come so far from those original two viewers. One of the hardest things is choosing the name which suits you best and having a unique name like yours. Please tell us where the name Mavitivo came from. Is there a background story?

So I was InT Maverick until last month, and it was short for ‘Intensity’ a clan back on MW2 2008/9. It reminded me of a time I’d come home for being told gaming wasn’t cool, to be around my 3 friends and we’d win leagues on gamebattles.

Fast forward I wanted to have a name that meant something to me now, not when I was 13. Mavitivo is a play on my favorite wine Primitivo, which is from a place called Puglia, which at that time of my life, things were perfect. So it’s a callback to that, as well as my love for wine.

Throwing in the good ole days we are very familiar with MW2 era and of course game battles we too used to win plenty of games on that platform back in the day, it’s really nice to know the origin of a clan which has now turned into a name which resembles something you love. We see your main streaming focus is FPS games, how come you chose this specific type of gaming?

I find story games hard to stream as you’re constantly looking at chat, bothering the experience. I find FPS to have a good balance between having fun and entertaining chat. I also want to play games with my community, so it makes sense in that regard.

We totally understand that sometimes story driven you get too focused within the story or hours of boring dialogue most viewers want to see them dubs and clutches! On the subject of First Person Shooters, what would be your all-time favorite First Person Shooter?

MW2 holds a special place in my heart, as well as Rainbow Six Siege, however I honestly love Apex Legends, I truly believe this game was revolutionary when it first came out, a surprise release and it felt like you couldn’t go on social media without people talking about Apex Legends, similar to what happened with Elden Ring.

Strong choice there we can see why MW2 holds a place i never got into Siege i was more a Rainbow Six Vegas kinda guy, strong choice with Apex too that has really changed the battle royale genre for sure. What would be your top 5 First Person Shooters?

Apex Legends, Rainbow Six Siege, Modern Warfare 2 (2009) Halo and Borderlands!

Great choice glad to see Halo & Borderlands being shown some love Halo 2 & 3 i hope. We notice you play a lot of Apex, Please tell us what you think about battle royales and why’d you pick to play Apex over warzone?

I think Battle Royales make for great streaming games, and there is a reason why they are so popular. Games like Elden Ring are good but they get left behind because they aren’t a live service game, so they inevitably drop off, however games like FPS and BR’s can be constantly updated and have huge replay value. There is a reason as to why FPS dominates the live streaming categories.

Yeah we can relate to that battle royales have been keeping people active for years whereas single player story driven can just die off once you’re done with it. On the subject of Apex, what is your go to Legend and why?

Bangalore, I love her backstory, her heirloom and skins. I feel she has a really sad background we don’t appreciate enough and her abilities are god tier when done right.

Ah sweet choice Bangalore is my main too! Now let’s hear a little more about you and your journey, So at what point did you think “Damn, I could really make a career out of gaming and creating content”?

Back in 2019 my friend GFA and I used to stream together as a duo, and we’d average around 12 CCV’s and came up with this crazy idea of driving a Reliant Robin (3 wheeled car) 1000 miles across England for Movember, we hit almost 600,000 impressions and raised money for charity, it was the good times.

Awh man that sounds great! I’d love to have witnessed that I bet you two had a ball of a time. When was the point in your career where you thought “I’ve made it”?

This is going to sound really silly, but one evening a couple years ago, I met my good friend and artist Minimuse for the first time IRL, and as I said ever since I started I just wanted to have gamer friends which I never had, this was a very heartwarming moment, as you can be thousands of miles apart, and still make friends.

If I had to give you more of analytical answer, either hitting 7000 CCV’s during the charity event or hosting my panels helping other creators at Insomnia

IRL Gamer friends and meet ups are where it’s at! I’ve met many of my friends online i now drink or meet up with them regularly. 7000 for a charity stream is crazy! Bet that was some milestone and for a great cause too. Do you have any key advice that you would personally give to any smaller streamers about making their stream better and growing their channel and or content?

Put effort to what you do off stream, and I’m not talking YouTube, I’m talking real life, make sure you are growing as a person, hang out with people, have a part time job doing something you love, hit the gym and focus on your health, because without a good character you can’t make a good story, a good story is how you connect with your audience

As a regular gym goer i can’t stress this enough mental state and health are big for you to tackle your goals, Thanks for this great advice im sure our readers will take note. On the subject of streaming, we see you stream a lot to many people and have such a great community over on Twitch, What for you was the deciding factor to pick Twitch as your platform to stream on?

When I started Twitch was the live streaming king, we have YouTube, and whilst it looks lovely over there and I am a firm believer that gaming will solely exist on YouTube by 2025, and Twitch will be IRL streaming, YouTube just doesn’t have the infrastructure that suits me, people don’t like watching over there, brands don’t have budgets for YouTube as much, and you rob yourself of that sense of community when you’re there.

Woah that’s a bold statement i’ll hold you to that one in 2025 and we can see if its happened, i can see where you’re coming from though making the leap to YouTube can be daunting and community wise you lose a few if you take the leap look at Doc for example. On the subject of Twitch, we all know your intro is awesome. How did you make this and is there a background to how you became good at making videos?

Thank you! I earlier mentioned my friend GFA, we basically used to make short movies for fun, similar to what CorridorDigital do, but obviously way WAY more budget.

I use all of the clips we took during this time! I also am pretty good at editing (albeit I hate it) and I’m a perfectionist so I will spend hours and hours working on it.

Ah that’s pretty cool, so basically spend hours upon hours editing until it becomes perfect gotcha. From your streams and YouTube videos you do sometimes play some wacky and bizarre games, Please tell us where the idea comes from, Does your community choose or is it random?

So I looked at what I want to do in creation, and wanted to re-strategise my work for 2023, looking at doing this I knew I could become a

‘Curator’ with short form that showed people new games to play, and showcase small indie titles, I hope to get to a point where I can influence indie developers who work so hard on their game, similar to how streamer influenced me with my content.

That’s a pretty good idea to be honest it also helps indies get their games out there to more of an audience it’s good to see you’ve been humble with the assistance you got to pass it onto others that’s a great traitor to have. Away from your streaming life & content creation what do you do in your spare time?

I work in wine, I really love wine, as you can tell from the name, and I also love making cocktails, so I do both of those at work, and that helps me stay active outside in the real world,

I write a lot in my time, which i’ve always done since graduating in scriptwriting. I love going to the gym but also sitting on my own at the pub listening to music with a beer. I find myself pretty motivated in this situation funnily enough.

I can’t say I’ve dabbled into the wine world but it’s a breath of fresh air to hear someone so passionate about something they do. Let’s talk about your setup. What are the topmost essential things that you can’t stream without?

Stream Deck, it is an essential tool for any creator, and if you want to work with a brand, make sure you shift your setup in that way. I’m a huge fan of having mood lights on around the room to lower the strength of the screen, or so it feels like. I also think having accolades of some kind, whether that’s goals you hit or tournaments you win, seeing yourself win will make you want to win more.

Elgato really hit it out of the park with that Stream Deck didn’t they, that’s some great things to have and work towards thanks for telling us these things im sure our readers may too use these options. As a big time gamer what would be your top 5 games of all time?

Tough question, I would have to say Fallout New Vegas, No Man’s Sky, Halo 3 and Gears Of War.

We will take 4 out of 5, I’m a massive Fallout fan and most open world type games so glad to see Fallout and No Man’s Sky, Also a huge Halo and Gears fan too so i think these too would end up in my top 5! If you could only play one game for the rest of your life, what game would that be and why?

Apex Legends, they announced they want it going for 20 years so i’m thinking long term

Wow i didn’t know they had a 20 year plan that’s crazy! Great choice though with something that will always change and bring fresh gameplay. So let’s talk about your highlight reel! What are the 5 top moments in your career so far that you would want in a montage?

The reliant robin trip would be up there, a beautiful feat that no one has done, and gave me enough inspiration to keep pushing forward. Playing on the creator stage at Insomnia, where I broke 4 PC’s.

Streaming on the Lenovo stage at EGX. Hosting my ‘Creators Help Creators’ panel at Insomnia to tons of people. I guess my last one isn’t really a moment, but it’s the point that I can call some of the most inspiring creators close friends.

Hold up, that was you at EGX ha nice man we were there too! We are heading to Insomnia this year so we hope to see you there! These are some great goals and in such a short period of time we love to see this keep it up. So we’ve mentioned montages with your top highlights and with 2023 only beginning, what are your goals for the year?

My only goal this year is to focus on my happiness. I’m done chasing goals and targets.

We love that and we wish you all the best in doing so. What is something that no one who watches your channel/content knows about you?

I have about 8 movie scripts that are finished and I want to produce in my life. I write a fair bit in my downtime and want to use my scriptwriting degree at least once in my life.

I’d be open to hearing about this someday. We have some writers over here at TGG who would love to hear your ideas one day plus we would love to see one of those movies reach our screens someday. Finally, what are you currently working on that you’d like our readers to know about/check out?

Apart from my daily videos covering new unknown games, I’m working on a very huge secret project for 2024 already..

Oooo Juicy insider news right here something super secret coming 2024 well i’m sure we will see it in due time! Well Mav there we have it, it’s been an absolute pleasure to be interviewing you today. We wish you all the best in the future.

On that note if you would like to check out Mav and all of their socials you can do so below, for now thats me Sawyer signing off, Peace.

Make sure you head over to Mav’s Twitch channel and give him some love, and if you’re feeling extra generous, check out his social channels too!

Twitch: @Mavitivo

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TiLLER is a full time partnered Twitch streamer with over 40,000 followers, TiLLERs main focus is playing Pokémon games with his great community who all adore and love Pokémon & Pizza. Read on to find out more about him and his passions!

Hey TiLLER, First of all, we would like to thank you for chatting with us today. How have you been?

Heyya!!!

So let’s start from the beginning, tell us a little bit about your streaming & Content Creation life, how long have you been streaming/making content and what made you want to start?

I started streaming on Twitch in December of 2019. I had just moved to a new area and didn’t know a ton of people. I had been a big fan of several creators and thought that maybe streaming a couple days a week would allow me to make some friends who enjoy the same games I do! I had been saving some money and decided to buy my first desktop computer with some streaming gear and decided to give it a go!

A good steady 4 years now it’s good to hear and glad you made that leap into the content creating side of things. We see your main streaming focus is mainly Pokemon games, how come you chose this specific type of gaming?

I chose Pokemon as my primary game because of my love for the franchise. I’ve loved Pokemon since I was super young. It all started when my parents gave me a Gameboy Color and a copy of Pokemon Gold for Christmas one year. I remember sinking hours upon hours into that game and being mesmerised by my first adventure in the world. It’s a game series I’ve been drawn to ever since.

Awh man those were the good days! It’s great to see you follow that one game for so long as it’s advanced and changed over the years. On the subject of Pokemon, what would be your all-time favourite Pokemon Game?

My favourite Pokemon game? I’d have to say HeartGold and Soul Silver. They were the remakes of the games that started my love for Pokemon and were the games that started my love for shiny hunting!”

Gold was most certainly my favourite so i’m not surprised to see HeartGold here. What are your top 5 Pokemon Games?

My top 5 Pokemon games would have to be #1 Heart Gold and Soul silver, #2 Emerald, #3 Platinum, #4 Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, #5 Sword and Shield.

A great bunch of games that’s for sure we would easily have chosen 1 & 2 for those placements too. Do you originally prefer the standard layout of how the original games were played or do you prefer this new open world type that began in Legend Arceus?

I think there’s a place for both to be honest. I love the original style of Pokemon games but at the same time just because something is great doesn’t mean we can’t have something just as fun that’s different!

Yeah we agree and can understand that there’s enough room for both but we too love that nostalgia. If you had to pick your all time favourite Pokemon team who would you choose and why?

Great question, I would choose Snorlax, Garchomp, Glaceon, Heracross, Totodile, and Dedenne!

Ooo now that’s a powerful team with some strong choices there. How do you keep shiny hunting interesting when the odds are 1/4096?

I don’t look at it as needing to make shiny hunting interesting, shiny hunting is more of a secondary activity for me.

I love to watch movies, streams and listen to audiobooks as I hunt off streams. So when it comes to my streams, I treat my stream as a just chatting stream with shiny hunting in the background.

Ah that’s good off stream grinding and some chill beats it’s a good way to do things then the stream time is the fun time. Now let’s hear a little more about you and your journey, So at what point did you think “Damn, I could really make a career out of gaming and creating content”?

I think it took me a while to realise this could be my living. I never imagined this would be an option for me, I’ve never seen myself as an entertaining person. I’m really quite shy and awkward in person, I think it took a while to even realise how much people enjoyed my content. I started streaming everyday during lockdown, and I fell in love with streaming during that time too! I had been off work for what had to be 7-8 months when I was contacted about possibly coming back to work.

I took a good look at what I had accomplished through Twitch and started to realise I could possibly do streaming full time. I struggled with the idea of leaving a standard job behind to pursue streaming but I had never been happier than I had been since finding streaming and I wanted to give myself every opportunity to be happy. So I took the leap, I went full time and never looked back, telling myself “this is an opportunity not many get and you owe it to yourself to see where this goes.

That’s a great background story. We are glad you took that leap to go full time as many chose to go back to work after lockdown and just gave up so we are very glad to see you kept that community going and growing ever so stronger. When was the point in your career where you thought “I’ve made it”?

Truthfully I’ve not had a moment like that, I’m just a guy having fun playing a game he loves while chatting with friends. I accomplished what I set out to do which was to make friends so in that sense “I made it”, anything on top of that is just gravy!

That’s a really nice way to put it, very humble. We love to see it. Away from your streaming life & content creation what do you do in your spare time?

I spend time on call with my fiancé who currently lives overseas, watch movies, write, and play games. Oh and I eat a lot of pizza!

Pizza! We love pizza too, can’t beat a good slice of Pizza. As a big time gamer what would be your top 5 games of all time?

That’s a tough one. I’d have to go off of what I’m feeling right now because my answer could honestly change by the day! #1 Pokemon , #2 Breath of the wild, #3 Animal Crossing, #4 Skyrim, #5 Disney Dream Light Valley.

Some very strong choices in games here we can see why you’d pick such a strong bunch. What is something that no one who watches your channel/content knows about you?

I once competed in a film festival and won ‘Best Director’

Definitely check out my Twitch channel where I stream every day in the mornings! You can also catch me on Twitter and on YouTube. I’m putting a lot of work into YouTube starting this year and I am excited to see where that goes! I think a lot of people are going to love what we are working on over there!

That’s great to hear im sure or readers will check out your channels and we look forward to seeing you continue growing! A big thanks for chatting with us today. It’s been an absolute pleasure.

On that note if you would like to check out TiLLER and all of their socials you can do so below, for now thats me Sawyer signing off, Peace.

Check out TiLLER’s channel and social pages below!

Twitch: @TiLLER

YouTube: @Tillerpkmn

Twitter: @TiLLERg

Hey thats some achievement right there we would’ve loved to of see the film! Finally, what are you currently working on that you’d like our readers to know about/check out?