Innovation spaces for indie video game development and types of rule enforcement

What is it about?

There are various types of innovation spaces for indie video game development. Some examples include business accelerators, incubators, and coworking spaces. These labels have certain meaning to academics, but the spaces are also experienced by individual professionals. This paper looks at how rules enforcement is carried out differently in different spaces. The same program and place evolved over time into different spaces. We illustrate this by showing different policing types: self-policing, backroom dealing, big show enforcement, roundabout punishment and preventative barriers.

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Why is it important?

Organizational labels like accelerators, incubators, and coworking spaces are used to mean certain things, but everyone experiences these differently. This paper highlights how things change based on the labels used and how people envision a place.