What's an Indie Game?

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jason1637 said:

Nuvendil said:

No because it is developed under contract with Sony, who does have significant influence. And of course investors etc.  

Best way to put it is the development aspect is entirely under the direction of the studio.  Which means there can be investors mind and even publishers, but the studio is in control of the game conceptually and in the development phase.  

That's the key, the developer is in the driver's seat.  There's going to be some grey areas, but that's the basic.  Your game can be huge and ambitious like Star Citizen or small and fairly simple.  

So then it depends on how much control the independent developers have? A game like Sunset Overdrive Microsoft gave lots of freedom to insomniac. I'd consider that to be an indie game but would you?

I wouldn't because Insomniac was still dependent on MS's funding.

An indie game is a game developed by a self-funded video game developer.