Co-op Studios (with Reese Valentine and Mackenzie Denker‪)‬ Nice Games Club - a gamedev podcast!

Starting an indie studio is hard, starting a worker-owned cooperative is harder. This week your nice hosts interview longtime friend of the show Reese Valentine and their fellow co-founder Mackenzie Denker, both of Amelore. It's co-ops 101, which happens to be exactly the info Stephen needs right now!
Amelore Coop website

Amelore on Twitter

Reese previously visited the clubhouse for one of our earliest episodes, in early 2017:
Games Education

Co-op Studios
IRL
Production


The 7 Cooperative Principles
 - 
The National Cooperative Business Association CLUSA International


Mission Statements
 - 
Adam Schwartz
, 
The Cooperative Way


Co-ops in Spain’s Basque Region Soften Capitalism’s Rough Edges
 - 
Peter S. Goodman
, 
The New York Times


Embracing the Co-Op Studio Model in Indie Games
 - 
Scott Benson, Ted Anderson, Steve Filby, Ian Thomas, Bethany Hockenberry
, 
GDC



Reese Valentine
Guest

Co-founder of Amelore co-op, a worker-owned game studio. Former President of the Game Design Club at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

External link
https://twitter.com/AReeseOfCake




Mackenzie Denker
Guest

Co-founder of Amelore co-op, a worker-owned game studio.
External link
https://twitter.com/denker_m