Setting up a video game making studio is very much a personal preference thing. Some items are mandatory and some are purely to taste. Allow me give you the rundown of what mine looks like.

I've been meaning to mention this for a long time now: There aren't enough flying saucers in video games. There. Someone had to say it.
​The flying saucer in Message in a Bottle has retractable arms and is prone to starting conversations about out-of-the-way tourism spots. (She intends, some day, to be a sightseeing space ship, despite being too small for it.)