Jennie Robinson Faber
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9 session pages and 10 PS Guide markdown files for the Baby Ghosts cooperative foundations curriculum. Import script creates documents in Outline wiki with cross-links between paired session/PS Guide pages.
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# Pre-program: Onboarding and Prep
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# **Your first Studio Support Meetings**
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:::info
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Use this list to get a baseline read on your studio. These are things to *notice and gently explore* over your first couple of conversations. No need to interrogate, and you don't need to go through all of them.
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### **Relational foundation**
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- How long have they known each other? Have they made anything together before?
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- How do they currently make decisions? (Note who answers this question.)
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- What happens when they disagree?
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- Has anyone left a previous collaboration? What happened?
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- Who's doing most of the talking right now? Who's quiet?
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- Is there evidence of trust (or trust-building potential) in the group?
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### **Capacity and commitment**
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- Is everyone working on this full-time, part-time, or around day jobs?
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- Are time contributions roughly equal? If not, how are they thinking about that?
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- What happens if someone needs to step back or leave?
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- Who has business/admin skills? Financial literacy? Project management?
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- Is there openness about strengths *and* limitations?
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### **Game related**
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- Where is the project at? (Concept, prototype, production, shipped?)
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- Who holds the creative vision? Is that shared or concentrated?
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- Have they discussed IP ownership yet?
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- What are the core disciplines in the group? (art, code, design, audio, writing, production?)
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- What's missing? Are they aware of the gaps?
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- Has anyone worked in games professionally before? In what capacity?
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#### **What you're doing with this information:**
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- Building your own picture of the studio's dynamics, strengths, and risk areas.
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- You don't need to resolve anything yet, just notice.
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- Bring observations to your PS check-in.
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*Credit:* **Effective Practices in Starting Co-ops** *and Christine Clarke of __[Freedom Dreams](https://www.freedomdreamscoop.com/)__ for inspiration/starting points.* |