Re:The Quiet Revolution of Animal Crossing
by ctchocula on Thursday April 23, 2020 @11:48PM
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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 the bitmap art. Animal Crossing is not indie, because it was made by a large studio.
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Re:The Quiet Revolution of Animal Crossing
by anonytrary on Friday April 24, 2020 @12:55AM
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I 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.
Without 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.