Key facts

•8 current breakouts mention "made" across 7 channels in Game Dev.

•Biggest: 10.2x the channel's own 90-day median. Average: 4.9x.

•Top example: "This game made $360,000 in 24 HOURS!" by Code Monkey — 16.2K views, 10.2x 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 00:30 UTC

Breakouts mentioning “made”

01 10.2× This game made $360,000 in 24 HOURS! Code Monkey · 16.2K VIEWS · NORMAL ≈ 1.6K · 19 DAYS AGO

02 6.1× WHY this game made $10,000,000! Code Monkey · 22.7K VIEWS · NORMAL ≈ 3.7K · 13 DAYS AGO

03 4.9× MAX LOSS RED DAY (mistakes were made) Ross Cameron - Warrior Trading · 55.7K VIEWS · NORMAL ≈ 11.4K · 6 DAYS AGO

04 4.2× How this 2D Unreal Engine 5 Game made $300k+ Cobra Code · 9.2K VIEWS · NORMAL ≈ 2.2K · 15 DAYS AGO

05 3.6× My LEAPs Option Strategy That Made Me $3,821,425 (Just Copy It) Invest with Henry · 35.1K VIEWS · NORMAL ≈ 9.7K · 43 DAYS AGO

06 3.6× GPT-5.6 just made itself CHEAPER Matthew Berman · 55K VIEWS · NORMAL ≈ 15.3K · 21 DAYS AGO

07 3.3× Calisthenics History Was Made at ISN - Legendary 4 vs 4 Nicky Lyan · 31.5K VIEWS · NORMAL ≈ 9.4K · 18 DAYS AGO

08 3.1× DeepSeek Just Made Closed AI Look Ridiculous Two Minute Papers · 71.9K VIEWS · NORMAL ≈ 23.2K · 1 DAY AGO

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