We created a haven, specifically designed for experienced game developers that are just starting out creating their own game studio.
Haven is a safe place to take your first major steps in creating your own game studio. With Haven we aim to lower the barrier of starting your own studio. Sure, it's a lot of work and can seem daunting and overwhelming. But it's not only totally doable, most of the time it's also amazingly fun!
Apart from getting access to experts and knowledge, and establishing industry connections, Haven allows you to join a supportive niche community of peers. Starting your own company is hard work, but it gets easier when you have the support from other founders who are in the same position.
An important success factor for Haven is that it's totally exempt from competition between participants. There is plenty of opportunities for all to thrive, and participants have everything to gain in working together and supporting one another.
When applying for Haven, you should have just started your own studio, or be about to. You should have a concrete idea of the game you want to make, and ideally you've started doing some work. Ideally, you've also found the core team to do it with. Applying for Haven could however be the catalyst for you doing all those things. What you absolutely should have though, is solid knowledge of how to build games.
Haven is a joint collaboration between Game Habitat and Minc. Being in the midst of the Swedish games industry, Game Habitat is perfectly placed to support new game studios with all game studio specific issues, while Minc's expertise is top-of-the-line for all things general business development.
In line with Game Habitat's and Minc's values on diversity, inclusion and equality, Haven has been created to be as inclusive as possible. This is reflected in the program itself, but also in the application selection process - we strongly encourage people of all backgrounds and genders to apply for the program. With Haven, we aim to contribute to bringing forward more female and non-binary founders, and individuals from different backgrounds. Thus creating a more gender balanced and diverse games industry.
Partners to Haven are WINGS and Nyföretagarcenter Syd.
The first Haven ran in 2024.
Malmö, Sweden, is one of Europe's leading game development cities. Home to a thriving, inclusive game development community renowned for its world-class talent, games, and studios. Games made in the city have been played by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Plus, Malmö is a great place to live.
