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Grow Together. Ship Together.
The Games Ark is a community and ecosystem helping people build better pathways into the games industry — bringing developers, founders, students, educators and industry people together to learn, connect, build teams and create opportunities in games.
One ecosystem
The Games Ark
Community & Ecosystem
The ARK Framework™
Standards & Methodology
Shipyard™
Where Game Studios Build.
The Games Ark Foundation
Charitable Arm
Why we exist
The games industry has a pipeline problem.
People can leave education with skills, but still lack the experience, networks, support and opportunities needed to build sustainable careers or studios.
The Games Ark exists to bridge that gap.
We are building a community, framework and incubation ecosystem designed to help people move from learning → collaborating → making → launching → building sustainable studios.
Community · Framework · Shipyard · Foundation
Four connected parts. One ecosystem.
The Games Ark brings people together. The ARK Framework™ helps founders understand responsible practice. Shipyard™ gives studios the tools to build. The Foundation creates opportunities and runs incubation. Each part supports the others.
Community & Ecosystem
The Games Ark
The umbrella community bringing everything together — developers, founders, students, educators and industry people learning, connecting and creating opportunities in games.
About The Games ArkStandards & Methodology
The ARK Framework™
A practical standard for responsible startup game studio founders — covering structure, expectations, agreements, leadership, development and good practice.
Explore the FrameworkWhere Game Studios Build.
Shipyard™
A studio management platform designed for early-stage game teams — built around people, commitments and contribution rather than simply user seats.
Explore Shipyard™Charitable Arm
The Games Ark Foundation
The charitable arm creating opportunities through learning, community and incubation programmes that help teams become studios.
Explore the Foundation
The pathway
From getting a job to building something.
The traditional pipeline focuses on preparing people to become employees. We also want a route where people can build studios of their own.
Education
Skills and study
Experience
Practical making
Collaboration
Teams and peers
Studio
Structure and ownership
Sustainability
Keeping it going
Get involved
Want to build something?
Join the community, explore the Framework or register your interest in a future incubation programme.