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Indie game

An indie game or indie video game (short for independent video game) is a video game created by individuals or smaller development teams, and typically without the financial and technical support of a large game publisher, in contrast to most AAA games. Because of their independence and freedom to develop, indie games often focus on innovation…

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has impact · 27
Indie game → Art, ASCII, Cave Story, Faster Than Light, FTL, In, Indie, Infinite Space, Isaac, Metroidvanias, Minecraft, Return, Rocket League, Rogue Legacy, Samorost, Shadow Complex, Slay, Spelunky, Spire, Stardew Valley
related to Distribution · 24
Indie game → As, By, Byte, CD-ROM, Comiket, Creative Computing, Epic Games, Fate, Game, In, In Japan, Internet, Others, Prior, Shareware, Software, The, They, This, Tim Sweeney
related to Fears regarding saturation and discoverability (2015−present) · 22
Indie game → April, Celeste, Devolver Digital, Gamasutra, GDC, Graeme Struthers, Harry Miller, However, In, Jeff Vogel, Leading, March, Mike Wilson, No Man's Sky, Steam, The, This, Untitled Goose Game, Very, Water Tastes Like Wine
related to Development teams · 21
Indie game → And Yet It Moves, Axiom Verge, Cave Story, Dadliest Catch, Examples, In, Indie, More, Octodad, One, Outer Wilds, Papers, Please, Rain, Risk, Several, Spelunky, There, Touhou Project, Vlambeer's
related to Development tools · 16
Indie game → Common, Console, For, Godot, ID, Indie, Prior, SDK, SDKs, Small, These, These SDKs, Unity, Unreal Engine, When, Xbox
related to Rise of indie games from digital distribution (2000−2005) · 15
Indie game → Adobe Flash, Cave Story, Dedicated, GameMaker Studio, In, Internet, Key, Many, Social, Software, The, There, Unity, Unreal Engine, World Wide Web
related to Shifting industry and increased visibility (2005−2014) · 13
Indie game → AAA, Activision, Another, Costs, Electronic Arts, Further, Indie, Roger Ebert, Steam, Steam Direct, Steam Greenlight, While, While Steam
related to Publishers · 12
Indie game → Adult Swim Games, Annapurna Interactive, Chucklefish, Coffee Stain Studios, Devolver Digital, Finji, In, Raw Fury, Team17, There, These, While
related to Shareware and chasing the console (1990s) · 11
Indie game → As, At, By, Doom, During, PC, Publishers, Shareware, The, There, Wolfenstein
related to Industry · 10
Indie game → AAA, Furthermore, In, Instead, Kruger, Most, Recent, The, The Dunning, This

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games indie game development developers video independent time distribution industry titles also software publisher publishers mainstream market digital may typically

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Indie gameis anature of independence0.90text
crowd fundinginstance ofthe developers have paid for the development and/or publication of the game themselves or from other funding sources0.80text
and specifically without financial support of a large publisher.Independence of thoughtinstance ofthe developers have paid for the development and/or publication of the game themselves or from other funding sources0.80text
SoftSideinstance ofPrint magazines0.80text
Computeinstance ofPrint magazines0.80text
Super Meat Boyinstance ofbringing in more games onto XBLA0.80text
Limboinstance ofbringing in more games onto XBLA0.80text
and Fezinstance ofbringing in more games onto XBLA0.80text
the Indie Fundinstance ofa number of dedicated investor-based indie game funds have been established0.80text
Creative Computinginstance ofThey would place ads in local papers or hobbyist computer magazines0.80text
Byte andinstance ofThey would place ads in local papers or hobbyist computer magazines0.80text
once payment was receivedinstance ofThey would place ads in local papers or hobbyist computer magazines0.80text

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