Anyone else tired of the "indie boom"?

[MikeRox]

Euphoria14 said:

MikeRox said:

Euphoria14 said:

Wright said:

Why people assume mid-tier AA games can't be indie too?

Due to the fact that some are so absorbed in hatred for no reason at all that they fail to realize that "Indie" just means the developer is independant and not tied to a large corporation like MS, Sony or Nintendo.

They just think Indie = Candy Crush. Don't get me wrong, people here also seem to hate games like that, but the masses tell them that their opinion means nothing. More people like Candy Crush these days than Mario, Halo or God of War.

The irony being, Candy Crush Saga is not indie. King.com shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange XD That is the very opposite of indie XD

All hail AAA Candy Crush Saga :D

I believe CCS is still developed and published by King, making them independant, even though they went public?

 

Not 100% sure how it works when you go public like that.

 

 

 

EIther way no biggie. I love mobile games. Haters on VGC be damned. One day their games will be on my iPhone and they will either join me or give up gaming.

Either way I will win.

EA Games, Ubisoft etc are all not tied to large corporations.

This is why threads like this are interesting. Everybody has a different idea of what an indie game is. Is it a game with crappy graphics? A game made by a lone person in their free time? My understanding is it's a game made by a developer with nobody to answer to (whether it's 1 person, or 30) that would make them independant.

Having shareholders stops you being independent as you are accountable to your shareholders and so EA, Ubi, King etc are not independant. Same as 1st party studios aren't independant.

However is a game developed by an independent studio, but funded as a job by a manufacturer or major publisher indie? (So Child of Light and any number of the high profile exclusive "indie" games fit into this genre).

I actually think it's definitely to formally coin "indie" for a game now, aside from games where it's been made by a single dev or 2 friends in their spare time.