Game Maker's Toolkit YouTube Stats

@gmtk · Gaming · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Game Maker's Toolkit channel overview

Game Maker's Toolkit (@gmtk) is a YouTube channel in the Gaming niche created in 2006. It has 1.8M subscribers and 224M total views across 239 videos, an average of 939K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 444K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 333K views. Over the last 12 months, Game Maker's Toolkit published 10 videos, and 1 of them (10%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 7 days, Game Maker's Toolkit gained 0 subscribers and 1.6M views, about 223K views a day.

How much does Game Maker's Toolkit make?

Returbe estimates Game Maker's Toolkit's YouTube ad revenue at $10K – $41K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.5 to $6, typically $3, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $3K.

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Upload schedule

Game Maker's Toolkit publishes about 2.2 videos a month. Based on its last 49 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (27% of uploads), usually around 16:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

Game Maker's Toolkit's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are Game Maker's Toolkit's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• How Rockstar fit an entire city into PlayStation 2 memory1.6M views · May 11, 20264.9× typical views
• The World Design of Hollow Knight: Silksong746K views · Dec 15, 20252.2× typical views
• My game was cloned with AI... what do I do?514K views · Nov 5, 20261.5× typical views
• My Favourite Games From GMTK Game Jam 2026457K views · Aug 7, 20261.4× typical views
• Has Zelda Changed Forever?386K views · Mar 30, 20261.2× typical views
• How Games Do Destruction548K views · Oct 2, 20251× typical views
• What's the Point of Prototyping?361K views · Nov 5, 20251× typical views
• What's The Point Of Hard Games, Anyway?735K views · Sep 16, 20251× typical views

Latest videos

3 of Game Maker's Toolkit's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• My game was cloned with AI... what do I do?514K views · Nov 5, 20261.5× typical views
• My Favourite Games From GMTK Game Jam 2026457K views · Aug 7, 20261.4× typical views
• Word Play is now available on iOS!28K views · Jul 14, 20260.1× typical views
• 100 Steam Games that started life during GMTK Game Jam240K views · Jul 6, 20260.7× typical views
• How I Coded the Perks in my Roguelike99K views · Jun 25, 20260.3× typical views
• The Secrets Behind THAT Cyberpunk 2077 Montage281K views · May 15, 20260.8× typical views
• How Rockstar fit an entire city into PlayStation 2 memory1.6M views · May 11, 20264.9× typical views
• Has Zelda Changed Forever?386K views · Mar 30, 20261.2× typical views
• The World Design of Hollow Knight: Silksong746K views · Dec 15, 20252.2× typical views
• What's the Point of Prototyping?361K views · Nov 5, 20251× typical views

The Gaming niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 38K videos from 2.3K channels in this niche. 10.1% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 77K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $1.5 to $6.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: SISMA FAMILY (439K subs, best video 77.1×), Star Hunt (282K subs, best video 74.1×), Mario Friendly (479K subs, best video 62.6×), More1980sGamer (459K subs, best video 119.4×), StundZow Clips (107K subs, best video 121.4×), Angelixpearl (409K subs, best video 104.8×).

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Frequently asked questions

Data from Returbe's index of YouTube channels, collected from public YouTube data. Earnings are estimates from views and RPM benchmarks, not figures from the channel. Returbe is not affiliated with Game Maker's Toolkit or YouTube.