Shockingly popular indie games aren't really anything new--its just that people seem to be noticing them more, especially in this day and age of extremely high

Shockingly popular indie games aren't really anything new--its just that people seem to be noticing them more, especially in this day and age of extremely high budget games. People are always surprised to see one or two-man projects earning money on the same level as games like Crysis, but it seems to have been going on for quite a while. See my post at http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=398305 http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=398305 for another example of a very successful indie game developer.