Fine Fine... Games that either don't last more than 8 hours AND dont spend $10+ million when developing video games

Edit: You get what I am trying to say right? Basically any developer(s) that don't spend more than $10 million on making a game

I ask you the same thing I asked previously. What if you're a bunch of people that design a game 100% on your own (thus making it "indie") and then a big publisher is interested on it and wants to publish it?

The game stops being "indie" and is just a "game"?

Like AndrewWK said, a lot of people use the term indie game incorrectly nowadays. If the game gets published by any major publisher then it stops being indie, doesn't matter if the game is 2 hours long and it doesn't matter if there are 100 people or only 2 people involved.

So in my opinion it's very simple, for the game to be indie, said game has to be publish by the same developers, with no help from any major publisher.

A game without development isn't a game. So we can conclude that in this case your game is indie. Whether it's getting published or not, (Okay, maybe the forcing changes do change the game) the game itself is indie.

The fact that it is published by a major company means nothing to the term.

It does. Being independent means well...just that. It's the same as independent movies.

So you say that if you develop a game 100% on your own and suddenly a big publisher want to publish that game, the game stops being Indie to being just a game?

Well, that get's a little messy, but in my opinion I would say yes, because they had creative control (that 'indy spirit' thing.)  It's still developed and created independently, and the other coming in is more the distributor.  

It's like an independent movie - example: "El Mariachi" was an independent film by Richard Rodriguez.  He volunteer for medical extermination to get the money $10K.  He made the movie, and it won some awards.  Then Columbia Pictures came in and bought distribution rights, and pumped in at least a million dollars to clean it up and make it look better. Then his sequels weren't indy movies, but full features with multi million dollar budgets.

He made the movie, but they help polish it and distribute it.

It gets debatable and all sorts of grey levels in the middle, but I would say ultimately it would be who had the most creative control.

Now question for you - how would you label Minecraft?

What's a AAA game?

Indie games are pretty much the opposite of that. I'm meaning in production cost, not quality.

It was done by a man locked in his basement. It's indie, in my eyes.

"If I won the lottery, and I spent all that money just to make a game myself, it stops being indie? Can't an AAA game be indie too?".