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The award-winning interactive media artists’ collective (read: worker-owned indie game studio) behind the block-crunching puzzle game #Collapsus and more since 2005! #gamedev #indiedev #nindies #accessibility Our Linktree: linktr.ee/wraithgames

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Wraith Games @wraith.games · Oct 20

This is probably the part where we tell you to play our AWARD WINNING BLOCK-CRUNCHING PUZZLE GAME COLLAPSUS, AVAILABLE NOW IN EARLY ACCESS FOR PC AND ANDROID, right?

wraithgames.itch.io/collapsus

Collapsus - Early Access by Wraith Games

Award-winning, block-destroying, screen-rotating, resource-management, puzzle ACTION!

wraithgames.itch.io

Wraith Games @wraith.games · 3h

That's perfect (and very easy to remember)!

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Travis Lynn - Video Game Professor @travisepic.bsky.social · 4h

With SGC a month a way I'm happy to share the schedule. This event is stacked with some amazing speakers and sessions.

Definitely put it on your calendar if you're wanting to level up your game development skills.

www.shawneegamecon.com/schedule

#sgc2025 #gamedev #indiedev

Wraith Games @wraith.games · 3h

Do you know roughly when your 2026 event will be? We would have loved to be at the 2025, but plan our events about a year in advance 😞

Wraith Games @wraith.games · 22h

Small business incubators (typically state, city, or county funded) and co-working spaces (especially co-op or non-profit ones) are also great first steps into having a "stepping stone" space.

Our city's business incubator is where we had our first studio!

Wraith Games @wraith.games · 22h

Your county's small business development center and chamber of commerce are also good help

Plus city, state, and federal arts programs typically suport non-profit gamedevs (like co-ops). The National Endowment for the Arts comes to mind!

Wraith Games @wraith.games · 22h

Possibly, but there are great ways to get some going. For starters, co-ops help co-ops, so local credit unions are great!

Since in many states, co-ops are nonprofits, a local community foundation can help

Then there's sharedcapital.coop & seedcommons.org for starting co-ops!

Shared Capital Cooperative - Building Economic Democracy

Formerly Northcountry Cooperative Development Fund (NCDF). We are a national CDFI loan fund that connects co-ops and capital to build economic democracy.

sharedcapital.coop

Wraith Games @wraith.games · 22h

Our minds immediately go to @totter87.bsky.social, @toadcialism.bsky.social, and @jarrydhuntley2.bsky.social

Wraith Games @wraith.games · 22h

Of course, we have unlimited PTO, flex time/flex space/flexible work arrangement (FWA), and zero crunch, so anyone can *choose* to work from home literally whenever/wherever/for any reason, but that rarely happens.

Our people just like the studio space :/

Wraith Games @wraith.games · 22h

Exactly!

For us, with games being so hands-on, having a space for people to bounce off ideas, eat together, have a big white board, do creative exercises... It's all part of our process.

People hated working from home for long stretches because of that lack of human, artistic cooperation

Wraith Games @wraith.games · 22h

Largely. Some states may differ, however, that's usually minutia about total number of required board members and quorum size. Things like that. Always talk to a lawyer

With collectives, however, the "election" to the board is automatic on joining as a worker and removal is automatic upon leaving.

Wraith Games @wraith.games · 22h

We agree! This is how we operate :)

Wraith Games @wraith.games · 22h

Being a cooperative/collective is largely an ownership structure, where sociocracy is an operational structure. They are not incompatible.

For instance, we operate organizationally by borrowing principles from both open allocation & Holacracy that does not change the fact we're a worker collective

Wraith Games @wraith.games · 22h

Members are also required to declair wether an act or a meeting is "as a member" or "as a board member" as they are legally distinct roles that you have to occupy at the same time.

Wraith Games @wraith.games · 22h

It's a bit more complicated than that, as the membership and board *are* separate things with separate rules (often by law). However, in a collective, all members serve on both automatically and if they leave one, they're removed from both.

Wraith Games @wraith.games · 1d

Additionally, all co-ops need a board. Whether you're a representative democracy electing members to the board to run the organization or if you're a direct democracy (a collective) a board is required to be a co-op.

In a collective, ALL members (worker/owners) are also part of the board.

Wraith Games @wraith.games · 1d

At least from our perspective we tried the going remote thing and it was not conducive to good work. While all of our members have the option to work remotely, whenever they choose, most choose to come into the physical studio space.

Wraith Games @wraith.games · 1d

Unlike an LLC where you effectively have the flexibility to register anywhere (due to loophole or oversight), the best place to register a Co-op is where the co-op actually is.

If your state has a Co-op designation in its laws, we'd recommend filing as that rather than an LLC (if you qualify)

Wraith Games @wraith.games · 1d

These are some great questions, and while we can't speak for all collectives, we have a lot to say about how *we* do things!

Our Creative Director and Board President, Jay, has been working on a huge FAQ document (inspired by Motion Twin's) that they'll try to push in the next day or two for you!

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Cathy Kimport @purpleninjagrrl.bsky.social · 2d

New #Primrows weekly challenge today! This one is Knightblooms, challenge that asks, “what if Primrows was based on chess instead of sudoku?”

Give it a try! linktr.ee/tursiops
#indieDev @tursiopsstudios.bsky.social

Primrows screenshot

Game Complete
knightblooms
2 of 3 stars
205 points

4x4 garden with the following flowers:
violet, blue, blue, blue
orange, pink, pink, violet
violet, orange, violet, pink
blue, violet, orange, blue

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Andrew | BUY INDIEPOCALYPSE ➡️ PRGE @pizzapranks.bsky.social · 2d

This months Indiepocalypse is out with a wide style of games from developers all over the world!

Exploring games outside the usual commercial lot could only be made easier by me personally starting the games for you.

Andrew | BUY INDIEPOCALYPSE ➡️ PRGE @pizzapranks.bsky.social · 5d

Art and alternative games for the discerning palate, it's Indiepocalypse #69!

-10 curated games for $15!
-Zine!
-Newly commissioned game by
@deimosly.itch.io
-Cover by @abbycali-art.bsky.social

pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalypse-69

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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 2d

new post on the newsletter about cool games from Falling Block Jam
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Cool games from Falling Block Jam

A while back, I floated the idea of running a game jam (an event where developers make an entire game from scratch in a limited amount of time based on a...

Wraith Games @wraith.games · 3d

And, if you have any questions for us, feel free to drop us a comment here, use the contact page on our website (www.wraithgames.com/contact), or join our Official Discord Server (discord.gg/STVgfMEU9p)

We hope that this thread has gotten you interested in a better way to do business!

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Wraith Games @wraith.games · 3d

If you're interested in learning more about cooperatives and seeing what democratic worker-ownership is all about, we recommend you follow our friends over at @cooperatives.bsky.social here on BlueSky!

Wraith Games @wraith.games · 3d

Co-ops are a tradition here in the US as old as the country itself.

Right now, so many are finding that their rights as workers are being infringed; when hours are longer, your dollar buys less, and you have no say in how your place of work is run, what's more American than Worker Democracy?

Wraith Games @wraith.games · 3d

Even Hank Hill loves a good co-op!

In "Raise the Steaks" (Season 12, Episode 6 of 'King of the Hill'), Hank joins his local food co-op after realizing how much better the food is than the big box store, Mega-Lo-Mart!

youtu.be/Y5q1SWuaccw?...

Hank Joins a Co-op - King of the Hill

YouTube video by King of the Hill