What's an Indie Game?

[jason1637]

Nuvendil said:

jason1637 said:

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?

Like I said, it is a bit grey.  I personally would probably not give it the indie tag given Microsoft did have considerable control over it.  I would sah 99% of the time when it's a contracted game, it's not going to be indie usually.  Honestly, the Witcher series is a more curious case.  The developer operates independent of publishers up until distribution.  So unless they have a large investment group or something over them, they are technically independent. 

And also, Indie is not necessarily different from AAA.  You can be both.

I agree that there could be AAA indies AA indies and smaller budget indies.