Indie Game: The Movie (2012)

Directed by

James Swirsky, Lisanne Pajot

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 494 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Independent game designers share their personal struggles in making video games. The film follows several developers through the difficult creative process and the pressure of releasing their work.

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What happens

Indie Game: The Movie is a 2012 documentary film made by Canadian filmmakers James Swirsky and Lisanne Pajot. The film is about the struggles of independent game developers Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes during the development of Super Meat Boy, Phil Fish during the development of Fez, and also Jonathan Blow, who reflects on the success of Braid. After two successful Kickstarter funds, interviews were conducted with prominent indie developers within the community. After recording over 300 hours of footage, Swirsky and Pajot decided to cut the movie down to follow the four developers selected. Their reasoning behind this was to show game development in the "past, present and future" tenses through each individual's story. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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