Game Maker's Toolkit
Game Maker's Toolkit
This is the Itch.io page for Game Maker's Toolkit - an award-winning YouTube channel about game design and development.
The channel also hosts the GMTK Game Jam: an annual game making marathon and itch.io's biggest jam.
Plus: creator Mark Brown also makes games like Platformer Toolkit and Mind Over Magnet - you can find them here.
GMTK Game Jam
GMTK Game Jam 2027 starts August 11th 2027. Sign up here.
Want to see previous jams? You can visit the archived jam pages for every GMTK Game Jam, below:
| Year | Submissions | Theme |
| 2026 | 10,500 | Count Down |
| 2025 | 9,500 | Loop |
| 2024 | 7,700 | Built to Scale |
| 2023 | 6,900 | Roles Reversed |
| 2022 | 6,100 | Roll of the Dice |
| 2021 | 5,800 | Joined Together |
| 2020 | 5,400 | Out of Control |
| 2019 | 2,600 | Only One |
| 2018 | 1,000 | [Genre] without [Mechanic] |
| 2017 | 700 | Dual Purpose Design |
Useful Links
GMTK Games
Companion to the GMTK video "Can I fix Zelda's UI using Unity?"
Educational
Play in browser
