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Stardew Valley is indie, because it was made by a single developer who was responsible for everything from coding, composing the music, writing the story and th
by ctchocula 6y ago
Stardew Valley is indie, because it was made by a single developer who was responsible for everything from coding, composing the music, writing the story and the bitmap art. Animal Crossing is not indie, because it was made by a large studio.
- anonytrary 6y agoI see, I guess we had different definitions of "indie", but I think what you said sounds reasonable and there is value to understanding the humble origins of someone regardless of their current standing.
- jholman 6y agoWithout wanting to police the word, because you do you, "indie" comes from "independent", as in "independent of a publisher" (or, in music, where the word comes from, independent of a record label). It doesn't have to be from a single developer, or even a small dev team, but rather from a team that is in some meaningful sense "independent". This means, as an interesting example, that Minecraft was at one point about as indie as it is possible to be, and now is about as not-indie as it is possible to be.