Ghost Guild is a community for game workers exploring cooperative and worker-centric models. By joining, you're becoming part of a growing community of practice built on mutual support, shared learning, and solidarity.
This page covers everything you're agreeing to as a member. Related policies are linked throughout and are part of this agreement.
Ghost Guild membership is about community and participation, not access to hidden content. Every member gets the same access to resources, events, and community spaces regardless of what they contribute financially.
When you join Ghost Guild, you become a Class B member of Baby
Ghosts, our parent charity. Class A membership is held by a small
group involved in governance, mainly our directors. Class A and
Class B have equal access to resources, community, events, and the
Solidarity Fund. Voting at the Annual General Meeting is limited
to Class A members, as set out in our
Our three membership circles describe where you are in your journey with cooperative models. They're not a hierarchy.
You can move between circles as your work and interests evolve. Just reach out to the Membership Committee when you're ready.
We operate on a pay-what-you-can model. Your contribution is fully decoupled from your circle. Members with more financial capacity help make space for members with less.
If money is tight, choose the $0 option. If you have more capacity, contributing at a higher tier supports others. You can adjust your contribution anytime as your situation changes.
The Solidarity Fund is administered by the Membership Committee, and its status is reported to the community each year.
As a Ghost Guild member, you have:
As a Ghost Guild member, you commit to:
Our community spaces, including our shared Slack workspace, operate with an assumption of privacy. This means:
The Ghost Guild wiki at wiki.ghostguild.org is a knowledge commons. Anything you contribute to it is automatically and irrevocably licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC-BY-SA 4.0) at the moment you post it.
In plain terms:
This is how a knowledge commons works, and it's central to what Ghost Guild is doing. If you have something you'd rather keep private or under a more restrictive license, don't put it in the wiki.
Profile information, bulletin board posts, comments in member-only
spaces, and direct messages aren't part of the commons and stay under
your control. See our
Your personal information is used to administer your membership and to communicate with you about Ghost Guild.
We use a small number of third-party services to run the platform
(payment processing, email, hosting, analytics). Our
We don't sell your data, share it for marketing, or feed any community content into generative AI tools.
Membership is valid for one year from joining or renewal. Dues can be paid monthly or annually, and renewal happens by continuing dues payments or arranging support through the Solidarity Fund.
You can adjust your contribution to any amount, including $0, at any time. There's no minimum contribution to maintain membership in good standing. A failed monthly payment doesn't end your membership. If a payment doesn't go through, we'll reach out to work it out.
You can end your membership at any time by contacting the Membership
Committee. In rare cases, membership may be ended for serious
violations of these guidelines, following the process in our
If you leave, your wiki contributions remain in the commons under
their CC-BY-SA 4.0 license. Your other personal information is handled
according to the retention rules in our
These policies are part of what you agree to by joining:
By joining Ghost Guild, you're confirming that you've read, understood, and agree to these community guidelines and the policies linked above.
Welcome to the community, Ghostie!