Everyone gets everything. Your circle reflects where you are in your cooperative journey. Your financial contribution reflects what you can afford. These are completely separate choices.
Circles help us provide relevant guidance and connect you with others at similar stages. Choose based on where you are now!
Maybe you've heard rumours about cooperatives in game dev and you're curious. Or you're frustrated with traditional studio hierarchies and wondering if there's another way. This circle is for anyone exploring whether cooperative principles might fit their work.
This space is for you if you're: an individual game worker dreaming of different possibilities • a researcher digging into the rise of alternative studio models • an industry ally who wants to support cooperative work • anyone who's co-op-curious!
Our resources and community space will help you understand cooperative basics, connect with others asking the same questions, and give you a look at real examples from game studios. You don't need to have a studio or project of your own - just join and see what strikes your fancy!
You're way past wondering about "what if" and into "how do we actually do this?" Perhaps you're forming a new cooperative studio from scratch, or converting an existing team to a co-op structure, or working through the messy reality of turning values into sustainable practice.
This is the space for the practical stuff: governance documents you can read and adapt, financial models for cooperative studios, connections with other founders navigating similar challenges.
We have two paths through this circle that we will be launching soon:
Join us to figure out how you can balance your values with keeping the lights on - whether you're a full founding team, a solo founder exploring structures, or an existing studio in transition.
You've done it. You're actually running a cooperative/worker-centric studio or you've been through our Peer Accelerator. Now you're figuring out how to sustain it, improve it, and maybe help others learn from what you've learned.
This circle is for: Peer Accelerator alumni • members of established co-ops • mentors who want to support other cooperatives • researchers studying cooperative models in practice
Here, we create space for practitioners to share what's actually working (and what isn't), support emerging cooperatives, collaborate across studios, and contribute to building a knowledge commons.
Movement between circles is fluid. As you move along in your journey, you can shift circles anytime. Just let us know.
Your contribution is separate from your circle. Whether you contribute $0 or $50+/month, you get full access to everything. Choose based on your financial capacity, not your circle.
Not sure which circle? Start with Community - you can always move. Or email us and we'll chat about what makes sense for you.