Indie Games

Independent video games (commonly referred to as indie games) are video games created by individuals or small teams without video game publisher financial support. Indie games is usually done on-line and relys on digital distribution.  Indie game developers are not financially backed by publishers and usually have little to no budget available, thereby generally relying on Internet digital distribution schemes. 

• indie developers are generally more product-oriented than hobbyist game writers

• Many hobbyist developers create mods of existing games, or work with specific technologies or game parts however indie gamers develop whole new games

Examples of Indie games..

• Super Meat Boy

• flower

• limbo

• angry birds

• braid

• minecraft