BETA | INDIE GAME: THE MOVIE Shooting games
A duo of filmmakers have created a project that cuts to the very heart of what it means to be a games developer. They spoke toMichael French about their documentary, Indie Game: The Movie
The creative duo behind Indie Game: The Movie: Lisanne Pajot (left) and James Swirsky (right)
MEET THE hottest duo in indie games: Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky. Since 2010 they have worked tirelessly on
a Kickstarter-funded project with a growing audience of gamers and developers. They have already won awards and critical plaudits. A TV deal has been done. And at GDC their work will finally be showcased to the industry. But their creation is not a game. It’s a
movie about making games. Develop readers are an astute lot – you
probably know a fair bit about Indie Game: The Movie. You might even have been one of those who threw a few dollars in the pot to get it started. You might have met Pajot and Swirsky at GDC when they scoured it for interview subjects. You might even be one of the interview subjects. But what you might not realise is how much the movie, and its creation, holds up a mirror to how interactive electronic
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entertainment is made. We might still be waiting for the game equivalent of Citizen Kane, but Indie Game: The Movie might just be the game development’s Citizen Kane.
When we did this documentary it blew
us away that this movie didn’t actually exist. No one had told the designers’ story.
James Swirsky, filmmaker
The timing of Indie Game: The Movie’s arrival couldn’t be better. ‘Indie games’ are more prevalent than ever.
So much so that the phrase is more elastic and abused than at any other time, used to
all-at-once describe those resurgent bedroom coders working on PC games, iOS devs with years of experience who left the confine of a safe corporate studio, 15-year veterans who run 50-strong teams working with publishers on and off… and students. ‘Indie’ has stopped referring to the
developers who take matters into their own hands to craft games that are either uncommercial, uncompromising or underground, it now refers to those games released without mainstream publisher support. In an age of games made for smartphones, Facebook or digital distribution, indie is almost the majority amongst games development. Indie Game: The Movie boils back down to
the core of what making an independent game is all about by focusing on people behind productions that put indie games on the map. In actual fact, it aims to boil down to what making a game is about, no matter
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