Munity Games is once again headed to PLAYNYC 2026 at Anime NYC hosted by Playcrafting, August 20th-23rd!! 🗽🍎 We will be located at Booth 1B-103 in the PlayNYC Indie Dev Showcase. Huge thanks to the organizers at PlayCrafting and we are happy to be proudly sponsored by the NYC Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment Play our game, Shootlanzer, on our new standing arcade cabinet and go for the high-score! You may just earn some accolades and amazing merch we've handmade just for you. Can't wait to see you there! 🚕🚕🚕 More on PLAYNYC: https://play.nyc/
Munity Games
Computer Games
Human First, Human Made- Bringing people together on and offline. We are NYC's worker-cooperative game studio.
About us
Founded in 2023, Munity Games is a democratically-led worker's cooperative game studio based out of New York City. Our mission and value is to ensure each of our members has an equal voice in the business in the hopes of creating a sustainable and cooperative work environment. How We Work: The focus at Munity is making games that all of our members will enjoy developing. Each member has the opportunity to become the lead on a project and learn new skills in the process. While we have department leads on each project, the members of Munity are encouraged, and have the right, to be part of the decision making process. It’s our aim to ensure every member is heard and has a stake in the work they do. Our Missions + Values: We are a human first, human made studio. At a time when the games industry values profit over creativity and using AI to replace the lifeblood of the industry, we’re challenging the establishment to remember why we create games in the first place - for fun. In addition, a goal of ours is to be the link for an incredible need in the gaming industry: the ongoing support and opportunity for junior game developers and artists. You can learn more about what it means to be democratically-led and it’s benefits in this great article by Forbes: https://councils.forbes.com/blog/how-democratic-leadership-can-impact-your-company ________________________________________ Please look forward to our upcoming studio debut game: Shootlanzer, Battle Record of a Midair Mobile Soldier.
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https://www.munity.games
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- 2-10 employees
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- New York City
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- 2023
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Munity Games is headed to CEO Gaming-2026, August 14-16th! 🐛 Our second showcase here, we will be at Table D in the Indie Dev Showcase located in JebaileyWorld Arcade! Can't wait to see you there! ✨
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25th Anniversary: Tribeca Games Gallery- Munity Showcase The NYC Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment was proud to celebrate the 2026 Tribeca Games Official Selections and the NYC Games Industry through our support of the Tribeca Games Gallery, June 10-14 at Pier 57. Munity Games was specially invited to the opening night celebration at the 25th Anniversary of the Tribeca Festival, welcoming the creative games community to indulge in joyous festivities, and networking. Shootlanzer: Battle Record of a Midair Mobile Soldier was highlighted as part of a compilation reel of the NYU Game Design Future Lab | NYU Game Center & Made in NY gallery of various milestones of the incubator program, NY TECH alliance meets & GDC festival highlights, and cohort company showcases. As part of the ongoing NYC’s Summer of Games, the Tribeca Festival is one of the many festivals of the growing grassroots game industry celebrations.
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Come check out Shootlanzer at the #NYCVGFest2026 in Hall 2! #MADEINNY #MUNITYGAMES
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Munity Games is headed to the annual NYC Video Game Festival! We'll be showcasing our game: Shootlanzer: Battle Record of a Midair Mobile Soldier. Come try out our new 2-Player mode and check out some of our new unique features. Make sure to grab your tickets to the event via the QR Code or through the event link posted below. Can't wait to see you there! 🌊
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Want some insight on how a worker-owned game studio thinks and functions? Come read this piece from NYU Tandon School of Engineering and learn more.
Meet Munity Games — co-founded by Krystel T., Sean Heron, Darcelis Gutierrez, and Savannah Chapman — a democratically led worker cooperative based in New York City that is a part of the inaugural cohort of NYU Game Design Future Lab (GDFL). Their debut title is Shootlanzer, a fast-paced 2D shoot ‘em up that the team describes as a love letter to arcade classics like R-Type and Gradius. But the game has something those classics never had: an Afro-Latina heroine at its center. #NYUTandonMade
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It's not everyday folks can say they've can meet Allan "Al" Alcorn, creator of Pong, and have him play your upcoming arcade game. What an honor! Munity Games took a visit to our amazing friends at Tiltfive. A lair of geniuses , mentors, and fun times. Thank you to Jeri Ellsworth + team for your generosity and for having us. Thomas Ortega + Jeff R. thank you for coming with us and supporting us- best company we could ever ask for. #gdc #tiltfive #pong #arcadegames
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Looks like a Renaissance painting! 🎨 A grand time with our star studded NYU GDFL cohort at GDC Festival of Gaming !! 🌟
GDC Festival of Gaming is almost over, but for our incubator teams it’s the beginning of a new chapter thanks to all the opportunities that came up this week! We’re incredibly thankful to all the amazing people that met with us, supported our teams in any way, and attended our Tuesday night mixer. And we are especially thankful to Medal for their support! We have so many things to report back on, so hold up while we wrap our heads around all the exciting things that happened this week in San Francisco. We can’t wait to share! #gamedesigner #gamedeveloper #startup #accelerator #NYUTandonMade
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Jeri Ellsworth is another hero I got to meet this GDC Festival of Gaming. Thanks to Munity Games and Jeff R. for letting me tag along with them to Jeri's hardware enthusiast meetup. I've heard about this meetup for so long and have dreamt of attending. It was all I hoped and then some. I'm purely a software guy. I'm not as smart or as mechanically minded as Jeri. As such, I cannot do my work without people like her making things for my software to run on. When Jeri did the Tilt Five Kickstarter, I contributed and followed along as she tried to get things done during the pandemic. She taught me a lot about perseverance as a founder: You just keep going and figuring things out. I've used that knowledge a lot the past couple of years. The Tilt Five HQ is everything you would imagine it would be. The attached video gives you but a tiny sampling of how amazing the space is. There's hardware everywhere. I mean literally every nook and cranny in the space has some piece of hardware that is magical or nostalgic. Jeri had a bunch of friends and regulars over for the meetup. One of whom was Allan Alcorn, creator of Pong, Atari/Apple/Chuck E Cheese alum. He told some amazing stories, but I was too shy to whip my phone out to record them. I was especially glad I didn't when he'd add, "So despite what you've heard, this is the real story..." I got to meet Amy Louise Herndon. She's as wonderful and brilliant in person as she is online. Oh but just realized that Stephanie Greenall wasn't there, so my Tilt Five triangle power boost won't be complete until I meet her. Someday Stephanie we'll meet and like I saw Jeri's and Amy's collections of hardware, I'll have to see your collection of knitted gifts from your grandma/aunt? (sorry, can't remember which now) 🧶🎁 As for the other NYU Game Design Future Lab cohort members, y'all missed out on magical evening. Jeff R. thanks for the wonderful chat afterwards. It was a nice ending to a wonderful evening.