Felan Parker
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Myth-making in the imagined indie community
Great post, Aleah. What I really appreciate about your research is your attention to how big, public-facing initiatives like IGF serve as a kind of myth-making engine for the "imagined indie community" (as Pierson Browne calls it), which neverth ... -
IndieGames.com goes indie
An interesting coincidence: the long-running indie news site IndieGames.com (which helped construct indie games as a concept) just broke off from UBM, the corporation that runs GDC and the Independent Games Festival. Curious to see how the new independ ... -
Absolutely, design practices,
Absolutely, design practices, aesthetic trends, etc. are all also shaped by intermediation processes. The popularity of zany local multiplayer party games can be tied to the popularity of indie game parties and events both at a local level and at larger c ... -
Historicizing independent games
You're absolutely right that it's important to look back to past examples of independent and/or marginal and/or alternative game making, and there is a dearth of this kind of work so this is a welcome addition. That said, I tend to agree with ga ... -
Valuing non-commercial games
Great point about how platform, format, and economic model (or lack thereof) shape the possibility space for indie/DIY game makers. In addition to Anna Anthropy's own book, scholars like Brendan Keogh, Chris Young, and John Vanderhoef have also made ...