How is "October Patreon Q&A 1/3: Counter-Design for Degenerate Strategies" performing versus Indie Game Clinic's normal?

About 29.0x — it has 17.9K views versus the roughly 619 Indie Game Clinic typically draws at the same age, measured against the channel's own 90-day baseline.

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October Patreon Q&A 1/3: Counter-Design for Degenerate Strategies

Name: October Patreon Q&A 1/3: Counter-Design for Degenerate Strategies
Uploaded: 2026-10-02T09:03:46+00:00
Duration: 19 min 24 s
Channel: Indie Game Clinic
Description: This is 1/3 of this month's Q&A - videos which are usually only available to paid subscribers over on https://www.patreon.com/indiegameclinic. Folks in the 🔵 and 🟣 tiers get the opportunity to ask new questions in the last week of the month, and everyone else sees the response. This is a one-off free video from the…

Indie Game Clinic's upload has reached 17.9K views — about 29.0× the ≈619 this channel typically draws at the same age.

Key facts

•29.0x Indie Game Clinic's own 90-day median — this channel normally draws about 619 views at the same age.
•17.9K views so far, published 15 days ago.
•Category: Film & Animation · Language: en · Quality: HD
•"Breakout" is measured against this exact channel's trailing 90-day median at matching video age — not a generic niche average.

Updated 2026-10-03 05:10 UTC

Video thumbnail: October Patreon Q&A 1/3: Counter-Design for Degenerate Strategies — Watch on YouTube ↗ · Indie Game Clinic · 53.2K subscribers

View trajectory

Views this upload has gathered since it published, last measured about 168h in — from our own tracking.

Published Oct 2, 2026 · 15 days ago. How breakouts are measured →

From the creator

This is 1/3 of this month's Q&A - videos which are usually only available to paid subscribers over on https://www.patreon.com/indiegameclinic. Folks in the 🔵 and 🟣 tiers get the opportunity to ask new questions in the last week of the month, and everyone else sees the response. This is a one-off free video from the…

Category: Film & Animation · Language: en · Quality: HD

Topics: Role-playing video game · Strategy video game · Video game culture

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