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My Favourite Games From GMTK Game Jam 2026
Video games are all about numbers going up. Score going up. Money going up. Power going up. They’re about adding and multiplying and doing out-of-control combos. It’s just rampant unchecked greed and I’m sick of it!
So - I challenged game...
Word Play is now available on iOS!
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Hey, it’s Mark with a super quick video just to let you know that my game Word Play is now available on iPhone and iPad over on the App Store.
So it’s available as a free trial, but if you like what you play, you ca...
100 Steam Games that started life during GMTK Game Jam
Every year, thousands of people sign up to the GMTK Game Jam and, somehow, manage to make an entire ass video game in just a few days.
Now - for most developers, that’s that. The jam entry has served its purpose. Perhaps it was simply a ch...
How I Coded the Perks in my Roguelike
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Hey, it’s Mark.
Now, I don’t do a lot of videos about programming on this channel - mostly because I have no idea what i’m doing in that regard. And the codebases for my two published games - Mind Over Magnet and Wo...
The Secrets Behind THAT Cyberpunk 2077 Montage
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Hey, it’s Mark. This is not like a real episode of GMTK.
It’s just... I was working on the video about GTA3 and memory and streaming and I used this short clip from Cyberpunk 2077, and was like, “Oh yeah, that was from t...
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