Indie Game The Movie

Interesting Movie
Not being a "GAMER" is probably a good thing when watching this movie. I never knew what it took to develop a video game. I'm a bit of a "Old Head" so I don't react to games like the younger generations. As far as the movie goes, I liked it. It was informative and funny. I thought the characters were sincere and quirky. I always like a movie where the little guys win.

Fun movie showing the trials of do-it-yourself videogame making
I really enjoyed watching this movie. Also being a child of the 80's it really helped me understand their passion to continue to push through developing these games even though they were almost broke and their social lives became non-existent. I believe that someone who is not from that generation or not a gamer will still find it interesting to see how much work goes into creating the games especially when only one or two people are involved.

These guys really think they have it bad
I should first mention that I do like some indie games, primarily "Journey", "Limbo", "Alien Hominid", and "Castle Crashers". Unfortunately, nobody who worked on any of those games is in this documentary.

It was hard for me to find a person in this movie with whom I could empathize. The one guy who had redeeming qualities was the developer who was working on "Super Meat Boy", and he seemed to be genuinely grateful for the opportunity to pursue his life's passion of creating a game. He was the ONLY person in the movie who was happy at any time... the others were consumed by narcissism, intolerance, insecurity, delusions of paranoia, and delusions of grandeur. They were determined to project an image of being miserable, no matter what happened. At first, they claimed misery due to the lack of opportunities that were made available to their vision. Then, once they were given that (enormous) opportunity by Microsoft (for the Xbox platform), they proceeded to complain about how...

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