The world of indie games

In 2014 almost 2015 gaming industry changed drastically if in contrast to just several years ago. AAA titles are huge productions that overtakes any Hollywood production, gaming platforms are growing day by day along with the market of Indie games can be a true reality that may be paying back always more whoever has good games to develop.

But what is an indie game?

Indie Game represents independent game, quite simply a game title produced by normally small studios, minus the costs of production that big titles have, where most of the focus is definitely the idea, the very idea of the video game, the mechanics and so.

Indie games remind far more time of video games where we didn’t have incredible devices with killing graphics and crystal clear sounds, and the game was something which must be smart and original being catchy.

Lately games like Braid, Super Meat Boy, Castle Crasher or Fez are already great commercial success bringing more vibe plus more popularity to the indie scene. Platforms like Steam have become selling indie games selected via their technique of Steam, Sony and Microsoft opened to the indie developers already few years ago along with the market is always more keen to just accept indie games as a reality of gaming; which makes sense considering that all the titles together we previously mentioned have sold a lot more than 50 millions copies, pretty good for those who normally develop games alone or simply sharing plenty of development time (and profits) with just few guys.

The excitement in the indie background grew up drastically if the film “Indie Game: The movie” arrived: an unbiased film itself, crowd-funded on kickstarted that shows the development, publishing and reaction of three indie games; the documentary/movie has become done very well and contains been so well received that alone probably doubled the number of Indie studios in the business: actually right after the movie became available lots of employes from big AAA studio became independent looking to develop and self-publish games pursuing the main characters in the film.

Despite having the even of mobile telephone the indie market found its very own spot: smartphones and tablets will be the perfect environment for game-apps or little indie games and with google-play and also the app-store everybody can self-publish and promote themselves.

Games like Minecraft have been purchased by Microsoft for lots of millions so even the big names in the marketplace recognize that the indie marketplace is more than simply an actuality: it’s a money pot!