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6:41 am Thu
Feb 2, 2012
Turnstyle's Noah Nelson interviews the brilliant minds behind Indie Game: The Movie, whose trailer is embedded above.
Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky left behind a comfortable career doing corporate video gigs and other commercial work in order to pursue an unexpected passion project: a documentary about people who set aside stable jobs of their own to pursue the creation of video games without corporate backing.
The Road to Sundance and Beyond– Indie Game: The Movie [Turnstyle]
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“the sum total of every expressive medium of all time” as a little creature jumps up a brick wall to score points
holy crap, are you folks mad?!
thank the gods for the liberties afforded us in our leisure time
As an indie game developer (now working on two titles) I agree with his assessment of the medium so yeah, maybe we are all mad.
Gaming has the power and the potential – like fire – to change the world or destroy it. We’re all working (at F.8 Interactive, at least) towards option A, and I found the trailer alone supremely inspiring.
P.S. the swiveling 3-D platform game with the fez creature looks excellent.
P.P.S. Super Meat Boy!
<3
Looks great! What’s the name of the swiveling 3-D platform game with the fez creature?
Fez!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fez_(video_game)
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY
The good news is that they got into SXSW and they’ll also be screening the film at GDC.