Week 4 – The History of Indie

Explain and showcase examples of key concepts of the indie game concept?

The key concepts of an indie game is the unique advantages it provides, by having more creative control and can produce new methods or non mainstream games, compared to the publisher back industry. As a result of this, indie games are able to produce more innovation and step over the normal boundary of the video game industry.

When making an indie game, the industry can be quite competitive. It is key to make sure that your game idea is original and innovative, something that the games industry has never made before. An example of this would be a that demonstrates the term ‘avant garde’.

Discuss an application/ example of the indie game concept outside of what we consider the traditional video games industry?

One example of this would be a game called Cuphead, a run and gun indie video game. Heavily inspired by the rubber hose animation which was the first animation style brought into the animation industry and based on cartoons of the 1930’s, it follows a different concept of animation compared to a normal mainstream game. The developers started by drawing the characters by hand and then using water colours for the background which is different  compared to more traditional techniques that the industry uses.