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Indie Game: The Movie

Canada, United States

2011

103 Min
Color
English
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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DIR James Swirsky, Lisanne Pajot

EXEC Jeff Lindsay, Ken Schachter

PROD James Swirsky, Lisanne Pajot

DP James Swirsky, Lisanne Pajot

CAST Edmund McMillen, Tommy Refences, Phil Fish, Jonathan Blow

ED James Swirsky, Lisanne Pajot

MUSIC Jim Guthrie

Sundance (World Cinema Documentary Competition): Editing Award, SXSW (Festival Favorites)

Synopsis

With the twenty-first century comes a new breed of struggling independent artist: the indie game designer. Refusing to toil for major developers, these innovators independently conceive, design, and program their distinctly personal games in the hope that they, too, may find success. —Sundance Film Festival

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Muffinhead1985

20Feb13

Any art form is an extension of yourself. I greatly respect anyone who has the guts to display their ideas to others. I didn't like all of the subjects of the documentary but it conveys the ups and downs of risking it all very well.

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Ivan_F

21Jan13

Indie money-making. Depression included.

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Pure Fault

16Jan13

Anyone with a single creative bone in their body, or anyone with any ounce of respect for creative people need to watch this. I just gained an even greater respect for indie game developers. These people really DO something. It doesn't matter if you like games or not; This needs to be seen. Nothing "falls into place" for anyone with a real vision. Passion, frustration, persistence, perseverance. That's what matters.

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CJ Roy

8Jan13

Let me save you 103 minutes and sum up this useless, poorly shot info doc. Hey guys did you know that making things is difficult and can take awhile and there is no guarantee of success so it is stressful and when you work on things for years it can become a personal reflection of yourself and i guess that makes games art so we should respect the medium.

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    Johnde

    8Jan13

    You have no soul.

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    CJ Roy

    8Jan13

    Some have said that.

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    Johnde

    9Jan13

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMTizJemHO8

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    NRH

    26Feb13

    Agreed. Sad that this movie mistakes drama for insight. It is a very interesting phenomenon depicted here but the movie barely claws the surface. Disturbing just how much it harps on money, money, money...

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Tedious, but rewarding to gamers

By pivic on December 21, 2012

How do game developers work? What torments them? What are the pros and cons? Well, the best part about this documentary is when the developers talk about their pains. Personally, I love when you see…  read review

Indie Game: The Movie - Il Film che ha la Panza di Micheal Moore

By Eingya on June 14, 2012

http://www.theindieshelter.com/indiegamethemovie/

Voi da casa dovete sapere che scrivere certi articoli non è sempre facilissimo. Certo, voi riderete, pensando: “Il tuo lavoro è scrivere due…  read review

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