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Hello!

Wow, I can't quite believe it. Today marks the 5th anniversary of Game Maker's Toolkit.

On November 6th, 2014, I released my first (proper) video to YouTube: a video essay about adaptive soundtracks. If it did well, I remember thinking, I might be able to make a few more of these things.

It's now half a decade later and I've made about 124 of these things, ran three Game Jams, spoken all over the world, created several sub-series, interviewed various developers, and turned GMTK into my full time job. I guess it did well, then.

To celebrate the event, I'm going to be releasing the above video later today. It marks some of my achievements, noteworthy events, and some nice comments I've received from people in the industry. 

I've also created a Teespring store, to finally sell some GMTK merch! People have been asking for this stuff for ages, so I thought I might as well give in! Here's what you can get:

GMTK 5th Anniversary 

GMTK Logo 

Boss Keys logo 

The 5th anniversary one was made by a talented designer at Teespring, who worked with me to make this shirt. Hooray!

Patrons can use the code GMTKPATRON to get 10% off your order. 

Later this week I hope to release a Patreon post about stats and numbers and learnings from the last five years, and plans for 2020. So keep an eye out for that! 

Mark

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Game Maker's Toolkit Turns 5 | Celebrate with GMTK Merch

It's been 5 years since I started Game Maker's Toolkit. Let's take a moment to look back at what's happened in the last half decade... Support Game Maker's Toolkit on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/GameMakersToolkit Get official GMTK merch - https://teespring.com/en-GB/stores/game-makers-toolkit

Comments

Aadit Doshi

Congratulations! I'll never forget talking about your videos at my first job interview!

Guillermo Jiménez

Congratulations Mark. Man, five years sure do fly. Keep up the great work.

Riley Gryc

Love your content, Mark! Congrats. And thanks again for interviewing me on your accessibility article, I was proud to be able to give my perspective. Here's to five more! And many thereafter.

@IndiePunch

I have been here for 2 years supporting you!! And many more to come. Congrats!!! You are doing an amazing job. You are the reason I joined Patreon. I might even order one of those new shirts etc

Matt Hauke

Huge congrats, Mark! Awesome stuff, here’s to another 5! Love how the video is 5m 55s too

Megukaphii

Wow, that's awesome! I didn't realise it was nearly that long. Congrats Mark!!!

Zeal Wierslee

Congrats! 5 years is a long time but it flies by when you're doing something you enjoy. :) Side note: may I kindly request your store include stickers? I would like to adorn my laptop with some GMTK and Boss Keys merch. :)

Gunnar Clovis

Congratulations, Mark! When your first video came out I knew your channel would be something special, but you've still managed to exceed all expectations!

Matt Hauke

I came back here to edit my comment to say stickers too! I'd think it'd be cool to have them on my Switch!

People Make Games

Amazing work, Mark! You've done such an incredible job.

Sam O'Donovan-Jones

Yikes, has it really been 5 years? Keep up the cracking work, I'm consistently thrilled to see one of your videos land in my inbox.

Hengtee Lim

Congratulations! Awesome achievement. :)

Guilherme Anselmo

Congrats Mark! Here's a small feedback though. Put the Epic Store coupon "GMTOOLKIT" on the description of every video from now on so it can be easy to find. I bough Outer Worlds last week and I couldn't remember in wich video it was. I know it's not a hard name to remember, but I still forgot.

drixkarasu

Congratulations Mark!

Yücel Cil

This makes me happy. Congratulations to the 5 years.

Matt Roe

This is the video that reminded me to finally pledge to you on Patreon. In honour of this, allow me to gently point out that "sneak peaks" should be "sneak peeks" in your $5 tier description. Love your work! :)

Shane Riczu

I love seeing one of the good guys win! Congrats Mark. Proud to be one of the thousands making this dream possible for you

Ventura

It's nice to see that your top videos by views follows the Zipf's Law and the Pareto Principle!

Steve Carcamo

I have no idea where to find the full developer interviews