Spooky season is upon us and that means… it’s our third birthday! 🥳
Although that doesn’t seem like a long time, we’ve been busy. In that time, we’ve funded 🍂 3 studios 🍂 and launched two games: Psychroma and STREET UNI X, which you can get on Steam right now. (Plus Psychroma is on sale this week!)
We also funded Montreal coop Lucid Tales, whose game Sally can be wishlisted on Steam today!
What else have we been up to?
When we first started, we surveyed the state of game funding in Canada and published our results. Two years since then, we’ve seen this conversation also getting wider recognition in Polygon thanks to Nicole Carpenter’s necessary journalism.
We’ve continued to push for change in the funding landscape in Canada and have created a ton of free resources on our website to try and reduce the funding knowledge gap.
We also launched a nonprofit, Baby Ghosts Studio Development Fund, which has funded and mentored ✨ 16+ studios ✨ in cooperative and worker-centric business models.
The recent layoffs and turmoil in the games industry have convinced us that we have to do things differently if we want to take care of game developers as humans.
It’s been a busy three years, and we’ve had to deal with some less-than-fun harassment. But we’re so excited by the community of studios we get to work with – they’re doing everything they can to change the industry. 👻
If you’re interested in supporting the work we do, get in touch!
Until next time,
— eileen & jennie