Hi, just wanted to do a quick intro to what this site is and/or will be, maybe.
I’m StartSelectAdam. You may or may not have heard of me before. I use that name in quite a few places, most notably being one of the creators and founders of STAShow.net and the Sound The Alarm Podcast, which eventually became StartSelect.net and The Start Select Podcast. From early 2011 to roughly sometime in mid-to-late 2019 those sites, podcasts, YouTube channels, and other aspects of those brands existed and offered a number of different ideas and merch items. It wasn’t like a HUGE deal, but it was enough of a thing that I can legitimately say I’m proud of what we were able to do.
And we DID do some pretty great stuff during that time: We podcasted before it was cool, we made friends from different parts of the world (and got to meet some of them in person), we live streamed gameplay before THAT was cool (and profitable), interviewed some pretty awesome people, and even got to appear as an easter egg in a game.
Overall, there were two main themes that were always part of what we did: comedy and video games.
As jobs, priorities, and life in general changed, so did our ability to keep doing all of those things essentially for free (again, that stuff wasn’t cool yet) and everything gradually slowed down and faded away. All the people who worked on the site (and many of the listeners) are still in contact with each other, but the project just wasn’t something that we could keep doing forever.
So why start again now, and why not keep the StartSelect.net name?
Well, as for why now, I don’t really know. I guess I just want to do something creative-ish again. I like writing, making audio/video content, dabbling in art, and just trying out new platforms and ideas.
As for the name, I sold the StartSelect.net name to the owners of StartSelect.com a few years back. They wanted to keep expanding their online presence, and I wasn’t doing much with the name anyway.
When I started brainstorming about what I might want to do as a new project, one thing kept coming to mind: how much I love video games.
So now this new project is here, and I’m trying to get it started. I don’t really know what it is, or what it will be yet. There may be reviews or previews. Maybe there will be interviews. It will probably be pretty heavy on indie games, but there will be some bigger titles mixed in. There may be a podcast, or YouTube videos, or some sort of streaming element, or a community on Discord or some other platform, or maybe there won’t be any of that. It may just be a blog about stuff I’ve seen or played. I also can’t figure out how I want it to look, so expect that to change a few times as well.
At this point, I have no idea exactly what this is going to be, but I know why I want to do it, and it’s where I got the name: For Love of the Games.