Key facts

•11 current breakouts mention "game" across 8 channels in Game Dev.

•Biggest: 21.4x the channel's own 90-day median. Average: 8.2x.

•Top example: "Challenge & Difficulty in Game Design" by Indie Game Clinic — 12K views, 21.4x normal.

•"Breakout" = a video's views measured against that exact channel's trailing 90-day median at the same age — not a generic niche average.

Updated 2026-08-20 03:10 UTC

Breakouts mentioning “game”

01 21.4× Challenge & Difficulty in Game Design Indie Game Clinic · 12K VIEWS · NORMAL ≈ 558 · 38 DAYS AGO

02 15.7× My Five Year Indie Game Launched. My Mind Is Blow Thomas Brush · 36.4K VIEWS · NORMAL ≈ 2.3K · 1 DAY AGO

03 10.8× Godot 4 Intermediate Game Development Course (2026) [Free Module] Red Fools Game dev · 3.4K VIEWS · NORMAL ≈ 311 · 19 DAYS AGO

04 10.2× This game made $360,000 in 24 HOURS! Code Monkey · 16.2K VIEWS · NORMAL ≈ 1.6K · 19 DAYS AGO

05 7.2× C++ Making A Game With WebGPU | Gothic Remake AFTER Cakez · 3.8K VIEWS · NORMAL ≈ 532 · 20 DAYS AGO

06 6.1× WHY this game made $10,000,000! Code Monkey · 22.7K VIEWS · NORMAL ≈ 3.7K · 13 DAYS AGO

07 5.3× 5 Ways to Improve Game Feel In Unreal Engine Unreal University · 9.5K VIEWS · NORMAL ≈ 1.8K · 2 DAYS AGO

08 4.2× How this 2D Unreal Engine 5 Game made $300k+ Cobra Code · 9.2K VIEWS · NORMAL ≈ 2.2K · 15 DAYS AGO

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