SANKTIM GAMES

In June 2026 I was scrolling through YouTube and noticed they had something called “Playables”. I've always thought it would be cool to make games, so I decided to give publishing on YouTube Playables a try. Turns out it's a little harder than I had imagined at first. I had no game ideas, but now I have too many. Some of which are games that are too big for Playables, but I'm here to learn and Playables seems like the greatest platform to release games on in 2026. I started experimenting, and then the thought that publishing tiny games on YouTube Playables could actually be a full-time job gave me that extra boost of motivation.

The longer version started in 2010, in my school library, playing coolmathgames.com. That was my first introduction to web games. After that I got into Minecraft, and a little later Counter-Strike, which led to a lifelong PC gaming obsession. I've never owned a console. I had never even thought about creating games until I graduated university and it was time to enter the workforce, when I decided to pick up a hobby. Seeing YouTube Playables, and hearing the success stories of solo developers shipping bigger games on other platforms, the combination of those two opportunities caught my interest.

My plan is this: keep shipping small instant-play games on the web, ideally landing on YouTube Playables one day, and get better and faster with each one. Once monetization is sustainable, the dream is to ship a bigger game on a platform like Steam.

I'm 23, a University of Waterloo grad in Accounting and Financial Management with an Analytics Specialization. Since graduating, I've had more free time between job applications, and finding YouTube Playables turned my free time into making games. More of my analytics and finance-related work can be found on GitHub.