GMTK Turns 4! (Patreon)

Hello! On November 4th, 2014, I posted the first ever episode of Game Maker's Toolkit. 

It was about adaptive soundtracks. I wanted to tweet about the cool musical trick in Skyward Sword's bazaar, and couldn't find an appropriate video on YouTube. So thought: why don't I just make one? The scope expanded a bit, and I made it into a fully fledged video essay, inspired by stuff like Every Frame a Painting.

Four years on, GMTK is now my full time job (thanks!) and has 100 unique videos across  multiple series. You can see all of the thumbnails, above. Some quick stats for you now...

Here they are by year. More than 20 videos a year is pretty good going for a channel with production values like mine, I'd say.

Here they are by series. It's mostly Game Maker's Toolkit, but Boss Keys has been a fun diversion. And designing for disability has gone over really well.

Here's the same image, but ordered in terms of views - from Protecting Players from Themselves (2 million) to Designing for Motor Disabilities (121k). I know it's a tad disappointing that designing for disability is so low, but it's early days for the series. It should have long legs. 

My longest video is The World Design of Super Metroid, at 22:35. My shortest is Toki Tori 2, at 4:50. Gosh, I can't even imagine making a video under 5 minutes these days. 

There we go. Here's to many more years, and many more videos.

Mark