Indie Game: The Movie - The Final Push by BlinkWorks. Indie Game: The Movie is a feature documentary about video games, their creators and the craft.
The film follows the dramatic journeys of indie game developers as they create their games, and as they release those works, and themselves, to the world. Indie Game: The Movie is about making video games, but at its core, it’s about the creative process and exposing yourself through your work. The film tells the emotional story of a two-man team, Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes, as they craft and release their first major game for XBOX, "Super Meat Boy". It follows Phil Fish, the creator of the highly- anticipated game, "Fez", as he shows it for the first time in 4 years at the giant gaming expo, PAX EAST. And, the film tells behind-the-scenes story an independent designer, Jonathan Blow, who made one of highest-rated video games of all-time, "Braid".
What Indie Developers Can Learn from Minecraft news - Frozen Synapse Game. We take a look at this phenomenon and ask what it means for our business, as well as that of other indie developers...
Like most indie devs, I'm a bit tired of hearing about Minecraft at the moment! I thought I would collate my thoughts on it in order to put the issue to bed. I'll be viewing everything through a commercial lens rather than focussing on the design, although in this case I think the two are almost symbiotic. We've all seen the outrageous sales stats and conversion rate which dwarf almost anything out there. You'd need to look to big MMO's like Runescape to find a comparable performance; here are some interesting benchmarks.