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Indie Game Exam Question 3 (FINAL) (Gaming)

by Leviathan ⌂, Hotel Zanzibar, Sunday, October 13, 2013, 21:39 (3859 days ago) @ ZackDark

Independent means to me: not owned by a corporation, in control of itself and secure in its creative freedom from outside investors. Usually these are small teams, but Bungie (now) would be an example of a large 'indie', though its partnership with Activision might invalidate those definitions...

So, I rarely use the term due to its vagary. Heck, I'm technically a cofounder of a small studio in Utah and I don't call ourselves 'indie', since like the posts here shows, everyone tends to have their own definition of this word. It also varies drastically between mediums. "Indie" in music can be my brother playing at the bar and selling cds to the style of music of the Shins, etc. Cody's definition of indie appears to be "games I don't like", unless he's just playing the troll. I can't tell most of the time.


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