Best Indie Dev Zone in Brooklyn, New York — 8 verified listings
Local No. 12 — Brooklyn game collective founded by Colleen Macklin, John Sharp, and Eric Zimmerman. Designed The Metagame (2015) and various playful experiments. Based in Brooklyn, New York. Game developer cooperati
Computer Lunch — Brooklyn studio founded 2009. Released the cult action-RPG Crawl (2017) and other indie projects. Based in Brooklyn, New York. Independent game studios self-fund or partner with publishers to ship gam
Wadjet Eye Games — Brooklyn indie founded 2006 by Dave Gilbert. Specializes in retro point-and-click adventures: Blackwell series, Gemini Rue, Resonance, and Unavowed (2018). Based in Brooklyn, New York. Independent gam
Robert Yang — Brooklyn queer game dev and professor. Made the Radiator series, Cobra Club, The Tearoom, and Rinse & Repeat. Based in Brooklyn, New York. Solo developers ship full games as one person - design, code,
Vodeo Games — Brooklyn distributed indie co-founded by Asher Vollmer, Patrick Ewing, and Jay-Ann Lopez. First US video game studio to unionize (2021). Made Beast Breaker (2021). Based in Brooklyn, New York. Game de
Hidden Door — Brooklyn AI-narrative game startup founded by ex-Kickstarter, ex-Etsy, and ex-Riot devs. Building Hidden Door, a generative interactive fiction platform. Based in Brooklyn, New York. Independent game
GUMBO NYC — Games Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass — Brooklyn-based indie dev community workspace in DUMBO. Based in Brooklyn, New York. Game developer cooperatives and collectives gather independent creators arou
NYU Game Center — Brooklyn-based game-design program (Tisch School of the Arts) that has produced developers behind QWOP, Ape Out, Where Cards Fall, Donut County, and more. Based in Brooklyn, New York. Game developer c