The rise of the indie game. The indie game rennaisance. Indie love. The track of the indie beast from beyond the 18th dimension. Okay, so I made that last one up. Regardless, these are terms we've used to describe the surge of incredible independent games released in the last few years.
What happened? Where did all of these amazing people and their awesome games come from? Weren't video games the sole domain huge studios with massive budgets and manpower?
Some have said that indie games have come into this success because their content is often more tied to individual expression than the average large studio game.The same can be said of the indie film movement some years earlier. A focused effort from a few individuals to convey a message or express an emotion as opposed to a product made by hundreds of people, with a heavier focus on flash and entertainment value. But I think there is more to it than that.
