Just a wee reminder that applications for our ✨NEW Cooperative Foundations✨ program + $5k grant are open through this Friday, March 6!
Canadian indie game studios looking to learn about building a sustainable business - we'd love to hear from you.
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Playtest FATEMENDER from Cohort 5's @wtchcrft.com!
…a Tarot-themed roguelike deckbuilder of strategy and pathfinding.
Cast spells to traverse and transform the Labyrinth.
Collect powerful Artifacts to defy the Fates and be the first to escape Purgatory…
store.steampowered.com/app/4177420/...
There’s just under a week of Canadian studios to apply for Cooperative Foundations from @babyghosts.fund and supported by the @gammaspace.bsky.social community!
Your jam team wants to become a real studio but you don't know how to split the money, make decisions, or set it up so nobody gets screwed in two years.
We teach that! Applications close March 6. Free.
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Applications are open now for our spring 2026 cohort of Cooperative Foundations! Comes with a $5k bursary.
And if you’re Ontario-based, we have $1,000 travel stipends available to join us in Toronto for in-person cohort events thanks to Ontario Creates. babyghosts.fund/coop-foundat...
We built you a garden! Spores.garden is a personal site where you can curate your thoughts and explore other people’s gardens by following a trail of digital flowers. We’re still building and adding to it, so let us know what you like and what features you’d want to see!
Screen capture of unannounced game with low-poly, fixed-camera aesthetic. The player character stands in the center of a dingy medical room.
Filling out the space
#low-poly #Godot4 #Blender #gamedev
TOMORROW! Join eileen + jennie for an info session and q&a about our new Cooperative Foundations program. Learn about what the intensive covers, the structure and supports it offers, and how to apply. babyghosts.fund/info-session
A shadowy figure on the left overlaid with the text 'i need a job'; a white projection on the right says 'i simply do not vibe with my labor getting exploited for the bourgeoisie'
Game dev? Laid off? Considering going indie? Also consider applying for our new…
☞ COOPERATIVE FOUNDATIONS ☜
8-week cohort-based course, starting April 8!
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We just opened applications for our Cooperative Foundations program: 8 weeks of pre-formation education for you to explore the model. There is no fee - in fact, you'll receive a $5,000 grant to support your team's time.
Details!
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★ babyghosts.fund/ghost-guild
Indie devs! if you’re looking for a more sustainable way to make games, consider a worker co-op.
Baby Ghosts is now recruiting for the next round of our newly revised Cooperative Foundations program - if you're part of a co-op-curious Canadian studio, this is an amazing opportunity to join a hugely supportive community and maybe transform the way you work together 👻
"Despite the games industry being extremely profitable (~$197 billion revenue in 2025), it is unjustifiably inequitable and unsustainable."
Co-op curious? Apply for our NEW Cooperative Foundations program now! You and your collaborators will get 8 weeks of pre-formation education alongside alumni and other indie studios in a cozy cohort. Open to new and established studios and comes with a $5k grant.
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We will have something for solo devs soooon 👻
Applications for our NEW 8-week Cooperative Foundations program open Monday, Feb 9! Comes with a $5,000 grant. Join our info session to learn more: babyghosts.fund/info-session
We are continuing to invest in marginalized creators building worker-owned studios with cooperative development support, community, and research and advocacy.
Applications for Cohort 6 open soon! Join our mailing list to be notified: babyghosts.fund/subscribe
★ @rocketadrift.bsky.social received an IndieCade 2025 narrative nomination and joined a @hotdocs.bsky.social panel!
Plus…
★ Studios from our program helped organize GDX, showcased at the Mix Summer Games Showcase, and presented at Futurist Conference!
We're celebrating our studios as we prepare for Cohort 6!
★ Polyvale Studios won big at Global Game Jam: Citizens Assembly, with coverage in Global News (globalnews.ca/news/11530997/kingston-area-studio-wins-global-award-for-democracy-themed-video-game/) and The Whig!
@gm4coopfutures.bsky.social Helloooo!!
As we rebuild post Hurricane Melissa - Jamaica could really use your help.
If you're able, please, PLEASE donate to the GoJ's support fund:
supportjamaica.gov.jm
🎲 👆🏻 🔪 💰
@rocketadrift.bsky.social's darkly humorous rogue-like dice builder, DEAD FINGER DICE: THE BILLIONAIRE KILLING GAME, is out now on Steam!
- 1bit asthetic!
- Synth-sational soundtrack!
- Custom enchanted poker dice!
- Billionaire-killing commepance!
store.steampowered.com/app/3512300/...
🚀 Applications are OPEN for Baby Ghosts Alberta – Cohort 1!
Alberta indie studios: get a $25,000 stipend, 6 months of peer support, & tools to build sustainable, cooperative studios.
Apply by Oct 10, 2025. Program runs Nov 3–Apr 24.
For full details & to learn more: babyghosts.org/peer-acceler...
Next month, our co-ED Jennie Robinson Faber will be speaking at the lovely @qgcon.bsky.social! The talk, on queering game studio economics, will be a practical look at game cooperatives. And it'll be livestreamed on Discord! Check out the stacked lineup: www.qgcon.org/schedule
We're launching a member program this fall! Pre-register for Ghost Guild: babyghosts.org/ghost-guild
Open to anyone, anywhere, building or interested in worker-led and cooperative studios. 🤝
The @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social article ☝ covers how devs are joining boycotts against Microsoft over ties to Israeli military operations. Developers from Arkane, Ice Water Games, and others are taking stands despite the financial impact. We stand in solidarity with these principled workers.
Proud of @daff.space for cancelling their STREET UNI X Xbox port in solidarity with Palestinians, even though it could've been crucial for their livelihood as an indie dev. 🇵🇸
www.rockpapershotgun.com/a-culture-of...
Co-ED eileen mary holowka is part of this panel today discussing cooperative models for the game industry (ya know… what we're all about!). JOIN US!
If you have an interest in making an ambitious rhythm game with me, with a DIY attitude, radical liberation worn on it's sleeve, queer focused subject matter, and colorful characters, I am seeking to build a team ahead of grant applications this coming March.
Interested in contributing?
In Dead Finger Dice, make important decisions like... which pallet to use 🎨
#deadfingerdice #indiegame #godot
