About

coop.cool is a free toolkit for forming co-op game studios, or any creative co-op. Financial planning tools to model the money, governance wizards to draft the core documents.

There's no one right way to form a co-op, and we're not experts. We've been learning alongside studios long enough to know where the pitfalls are and which tradeoffs are worth making. We want indies to keep making the games we love to play.

This is an act of solidarity with the tens of thousands of game workers laid off in the last half-decade, and with every developer mistreated or discriminated against while just trying to do their job.

Co-op legislation, tax incentives, communities, and support organizations differ in every province and territory, so we're building a national network of partners to tune these resources by region. If you have local knowledge to contribute (anywhere, not just Canada), tell us.

Join the mailing list on the home page for updates, or find Baby Ghosts and Ghost Guild at babyghosts.org. If something here is wrong or missing, tell us.