Advice for Starting Your Own Game Studio

Alexia Mandeville
4 min readAug 10, 2021

I asked my network for advice on starting a game studio. Here’s what a group of game devs told me.

Understand Why You Want to Start a Studio

Figure out why you want to make a studio. Do you want to be your own boss, or work with only the people you choose? Do you want to work on a specific IP or technology? Do you want to innovate?

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Alexia Mandeville

game designer | writing about game design & building products | www.bodeville.com | prev: Niantic, Oculus | twitter: @flexmandeville