Indie Game: The Movie

Indie Game: The Movie

  • Director: Lisanne Pajot, James Swirsky
  • Countries of origin: Canada
  • Language: English, French
  • Release date: September 15, 2012
  • Aspect ratio: 16:9 HD
  • Also known as: Независимая игра: Кино
  • "Indie Game: The Movie" is a documentary produced by BlinkWorks Media. The film, co-directed by Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky, was released in the United States on January 20, 2012   .
    "Indie Game: The Movie" shows 3 independent games (" Meat Brother ", " Face " and " Dreamland ") , the different states of 4 producers in the same period, and records the mentality of the three game producers History, explore the process of an independent game from planning to birth   .

    Details

    • Release date September 15, 2012
    • Production companies BlinkWorks Media

    Box office

    Budget

    CA$100,000 (estimated)

    Movie reviews

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    • By Ebba 2022-03-25 09:01:23

      alone

      From today, my postgraduate career can be said to have officially entered the second year, and I am still very confused about how to go in the future. On the one hand, it is the machine learning that I am doing but I am not very interested in, and on the other hand, it is the game development that I like but is controversial, so I hope to understand the life and life of some independent game developers through this film, so as to provide I have some inspiration and motivation.

      During...

    • By Jordi 2022-03-25 09:01:23

      30 Excerpts from "Indie Game: The Movie"

      1, Part of it, is about not trying to be... professional. Like a lot of people come in to indie games, trying to be like a big company. What those companies do, is create highly polished things that serve as large of an audience as possible. The way that you do that is by filing off all the bumps on something. If there's a sharp corner, you make sure it's not going to hurt anybody. If they bump into it or whatever. That creation of this highly glossy, commercial product, is the...

    • By Ulices 2022-03-25 09:01:23

      All you want is a little approval.

      Below are excerpts from the movie.

      When you take a long time to make a well-crafted thing, you want people to really understand what you're making. You look at it and think it's nothing special, like the game is over in one fell swoop, but you actually have to block everything, you know what you've done, it's not easy, not everyone can do it. You want others to like you, you want others to appreciate you, and you want others to agree with your work, but you also know that when you...

    • By Alvah 2022-03-25 09:01:23

      paranoid

      This is a documentary about indie game making.

      The first 1/3 mainly talk about the beauty of independent games. Friends with like-minded interests, according to their own hobbies, pursue their inner feelings, create games that truly express themselves in a work environment of "enjoyment", and achieve great success and earn money. Into a million dollars, fame and fortune. Minecraft can be described as the pinnacle of this brilliance, and its acquisition by Microsoft for $2.5 billion...

    • By Lyda 2022-03-24 09:03:54

      What is supporting the dream

      After watching it, I remembered that I saw this movie on the Internet two years ago, but I didn't pay much attention to indie games at that time, so I didn't watch this movie. I bought this film for the summer special, but I haven't watched it. I just had nothing to do and watched the main body. Of course, there are too many DLCs, and there are no Chinese subtitles. I sincerely thank the indie gamers in the film for bringing so many good works.
      Let's talk about these games without talking...

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    • By Abelardo 2022-03-28 09:01:14

      Detailed and comprehensive completion is high because the difficulty factor is really not...

    • By Tyra 2022-03-28 09:01:14

      After reading this, are you still embarrassed to jailbreak and install pirated...

    • By Monica 2022-03-28 09:01:14

      Games are a kind of art, but also a way of mind transmission. It is really not easy to make...

    • By Ara 2022-03-28 09:01:14

      It's a pretty lonely thing to do indie games, but indie games really are a special kind of art, and all developers have a kind of scientist feel. Time and space fantasy is not suitable for my intelligence, try FEZ when you have...

    • By Marques 2022-03-28 09:01:14

      overtake! class! Encourage! Chi! I! Look! cry! ! forever! live! hard!...

    Filming process

    "Indie Game: The Movie" has a large number of scenes showing interview clips of independent game workers. For example, at the beginning of the film, Chris Dahlen (a gamer and a contributor to "EDGE" magazine) explained the definition of an independent game, and from the beginning The overall structure of the documentary, there is a segment repeated twice at the beginning and end of the film, which is the game philosophy he stated by...
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    Movie quotes

    • Edmund McMillen: My whole career has been me, trying to find new ways to communicate with people, because I desperately want to communicate with people, but I don't want the messy interaction of having to make friends and talk to people, because I probably don't like them.

    • Tommy Refenes: The things I've sacrificed are social. You kind of have to give up something to have something great.

    • Edmund McMillen: [in a Skype-call with Tommy before release day] I'll send out the press release, update the website, update my blog, update my Facebook, and call it a night... What are you going to do Tommy?

      [pause]

      Tommy Refenes: Uhh... What happened? I just fell asleep.

      Edmund McMillen: Really?

      Tommy Refenes: Yeah... uh... uh... What, what did you say?

      Edmund McMillen: [laughing] Um, nothing.