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My Favourite Games From GMTK Game Jam 2026

For GMTK Game Jam 2026, more than 10,500 games were developed using the theme "Count Down". These were my 20 favourites from the ones I played. See the results: https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-jam-2026/results/creativity See all the submissions: https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-jam-2026/entries Sign up to GMTK Game Jam 2027: https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2027 Play my favourites: Picture Day - https://benjamdev.itch.io/picture-day 11:59 - https://max-waldman.itch.io/1159 1 2 3 D - https://krias.itch.io/123d Veggie Brawl - https://therozental.itch.io/veggie-brawl Circuit Breaker - https://sp1cyham.itch.io/circ

The GMTK Game Jam 2026 Theme is...

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Word Play is now available on iOS!

Word Play is now available on iPhone and iPad. Get the free trial here - https://apps.apple.com/app/word-play-mobile/id6743733091

100 Steam Games that started life during GMTK Game Jam

🔴 Join the 2026 jam - https://gamemakerstoolkit.com/digest/ 🔴 🔵 See all GMTK Game Jam alumni - https://backloggd.com/u/GameMakersTK/list/gmtk-game-jam-games/ 🔵 There are more than 100 games on Steam that started life during one of our GMTK Game Jam events. To celebrate these amazing developers, let's look at 100 games that made the jump from jam to Steam. === Chapters === 00:00 - Intro 01:27 - 100 Keys to your Heart 01:54 - A Little to the Left 02:26 - The Baby in Yellow 02:51 - Blood Typers 03:26 - Blueprint Bob 04:04 - Boomerang X 04:36 - Breezy 04:53 - Cappy & Tappy: Temples of Peril

How I Coded the Perks in my Roguelike

🔴 Get my premium monthly newsletter - https://gamemakerstoolkit.com/digest/ 🔴 Word Play is my vocabulary roguelike, with over 100 passive perks. Implementing them into the game meant learning a whole new type of coding architecture: inheritance. === Get the Game === Steam - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3586660/Word_Play/ iOS - https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/word-play-mobile/id6743733091 === Credits === Music provided by Epidemic Sound - https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/vtdu5y (Referral Link)

The GMTK Game Jam returns for 2026

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The Secrets Behind THAT Cyberpunk 2077 Montage

🔴 Get my premium monthly newsletter - https://gamemakerstoolkit.com/digest/ 🔴 Here's a super quick bonus video, looking at the famous montage from Cyberpunk 2077. How did CD Projekt Red make a cinematic sequence with 15 location changes, 79 cuts, and three mirror shots? Let's find out. === Before you watch === Content warning: Violence, Mature Themes === Sources === [1] Half year montage | ArtStation https://simonbesombes.artstation.com/projects/B1eNvl === Chapters === 00:00 - Intro 00:36 - The Montage 02:54 - Fake Night City 05:20 - Cut, Cut, Cut 05:50 - Mirror 07:05 - Bug City ===

How Rockstar fit an entire city into PlayStation 2 memory

🔴 Get my premium monthly newsletter - https://gamemakerstoolkit.com/digest/ 🔴 With Grand Theft Auto III, Rockstar North performed a magic trick: it squeezed an entire 4 kilometre wide city into the tiny 32 megabyte chip of the PlayStation 2. Here's how they did it. === Sources === [1] Hackers Reveal Rockstar Earns Over $1 Million A Day From GTA Online | Kotaku https://kotaku.com/hackers-reveal-rockstar-earns-over-1-million-a-day-from-gta-online-2000687207 [2] ABC Nightline Broadcast, July 2002 | YouTube https://youtube.com/watch?v=zeWMXFkJAU0 [3] Tapping into the power of PlayStation

Has Zelda Changed Forever?

🔴 Get my premium monthly newsletter - https://gamemakerstoolkit.com/digest/ 🔴 The Legend of Zelda series turns 40 years old this month. Let's look at the two distinct eras of the franchise, ask why Nintendo made the shift, and look at what might come next. === Sources === [1] Zelda Wii U to rethink conventions of Zelda - will it be multiplayer? | Official Nintendo Magazine https://web.archive.org/web/20130623184640/http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/46062/zelda-Wii-u-to-rethink-conventions-of-zelda-will-it-be-multiplayer/ [2] Ask the Developer Vol. 13, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes

The World Design of Hollow Knight: Silksong

🔴 The full Boss Keys playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc38fcMFcV_ul4D6OChdWhsNsYY3NA5B2 🔴 Team Cherry returns to the world of Hollow Knight with Silksong - a new game, with a new character, in a whole new world. In this episode of Boss Keys let's look at how the developers designed Pharloom and the Citadel, and how they thought about topics like progression, backtracking, and optional content. === Before you watch === This video contains spoilers for the entirety of Hollow Knight: Silksong === Sources === [1] Cut Content | Hollow Knight Wiki https://hollowknight.wiki/

What's the Point of Prototyping?

With a game idea under your belt, it's time to test it out. And the best way to do that is with a prototype. Find out why, and get tips for making your own, in episode two of Game Dev 101. === GMTK Games === 🧲 Get Mind Over Magnet on Steam - https://store.steampowered.com/app/2685900/Mind_Over_Magnet/ 🧲 🔠 Get Word Play on Steam - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3586660/Word_Play 🔠 === Sources === https://gamemakerstoolkit.com/sources-whats-the-point-of-prototyping/ === Chapters === 00:00 - Intro 02:09 - Is it fun? 04:30 - Is it viable? 05:38 - Will people like it? 07:38 - How to p

How Games Do Destruction

🔴 Get my premium monthly newsletter - https://gamemakerstoolkit.com/digest/ 🔴 Let's talk about video game destruction, and break down the techniques used to dent cars, break boxes, tear through scenery, and blow up buildings. === Sources and Resources === - Sources [1] Massive D: Stranglehold's Breakable Object System | GDC Vault https://gdcvault.com/play/462/Massive-D-STRANGLEHOLD-s-Breakable [2] Destructible Environments in Control: Lessons in Procedural Destruction | GDC Vault https://gdcvault.com/play/1030643/Destructible-Environments-in-Control-Lessons [3] Advanced Physics in Astr

What's The Point Of Hard Games, Anyway?

🔴 Get my premium monthly newsletter - https://gamemakerstoolkit.com/digest/ 🔴 Hollow Knight: Silksong is the latest game to join the "difficulty in games" debate. In this Mini episode of GMTK, let's look at why, and how, designers implement a high level of challenge in their games. === Before you watch === Spoiler warning: This video shows bosses and areas throughout Act 1 of Hollow Knight: Silksong === Sources === [1] Hollow Knight: Silksong Review | Video Games Chronicle https://www.videogameschronicle.com/review/hollow-knight-silksong/ [2] Hidetaka Miyazaki Sees Death as a Feature,

My Favourite Games from GMTK Game Jam 2025

🔴 Try the games - https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2025/results 🔴 🔴 Register your interest for 2026 - https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-jam-2026 🔴 This year's GMTK Game Jam was all about loops. Here are 20 of my favourite entries to the jam - from programming chefs to time-travelling crows. === Important Links === Full GMTK Game Jam Playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc38fcMFcV_vnAZjugCRdKr8_8d_y_rRl === Chapters === 00:00 - Intro 01:50 - Rhythmetric 02:52 - VoodLoop 03:37 - Night O'Clock 04:23 - Infinite Energy 05:13 - PhotoLoop 06:16 - Circuit Breaker 07:06 - Walk It! 07:59 - Cookin

I've waited my whole life for this

Switch 🇪🇺 Europe - https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/Nintendo-Switch-download-software/Mind-Over-Magnet-2884560.html 🇺🇸 USA - https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/mind-over-magnet-switch/?srsltid=AfmBOorMAJbhuyvIfPIN_UnGVkLKIZThJH4Uc3syLzU4Vdq73qt1nkkb Xbox 🇪🇺 Europe - https://www.xbox.com/en-gb/games/store/mind-over-magnet/9n9hvjjbpnt1 🇺🇸 USA - https://www.xbox.com/en-us/games/store/mind-over-magnet/9n9hvjjbpnt1 PlayStation 🇪🇺 Europe - https://store.playstation.com/en-gb/concept/10015385 🇺🇸 USA - https://store.playstation.com/en-us/concept/10015385

How I Made Word Play

🅰️ Buy Word Play on Steam! - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3586660/Word_Play/ 🅱️ === Chapters === 00:00 - Intro 01:04 - December 02:28 - January 05:16 - March 08:40 - April 09:38 - May 11:44 - June 14:12 - July === Credits === Music from Word Play OST, by Zach Jones === Subtitles === Contribute translated subtitles - https://gamemakerstoolkit.com/translation/

Word Play Trailer - Out Now!

🅰️ Buy Word Play on Steam! - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3586660/Word_Play/ 🅱️