Indie Game: The Movie
Making fun and games is anything but fun and games.
Synopsis
Indie Game: The Movie (2012) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM. Canadian directors James Swirsky and Lisanne Pajot spent a year following developers who build, alone or in pairs, games meant to stand beside anything the big studios ship.
Three projects anchor the film, and the people behind them. Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes push the frantic platformer Super Meat Boy toward release, then sit and wait to see whether a single copy sells. Phil Fish drags his long-delayed Fez out of development hell and shows a working prototype at PAX East for the first time. And Jonathan Blow looks back on how his quiet, time-bending Braid made his name — and why the success felt nothing like he'd imagined.
It's less a film about code and pixels than about the price of pouring yourself into your work: the sleepless nights, the debt, the dread of failure, the small flicker of hope. The doc picked up an editing prize at Sundance and became a touchstone for people who love games and grasp how brutal they are to make. Stream Indie Game: The Movie (2012) online on iFILM.
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