Indie Game: The Movie (2012) on Netflix
NR20121h 43mDocumentary
Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes build Super Meat Boy. Phil Fish is four years into Fez, and Jonathan Blow reflects on Braid, which he filled with his flaws and vulnerabilities.
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Jonathan Blow describes the flaws and vulnerabilities he put into Braid and how his design experience turned from experimentation to discovery. Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes, the team behind Super Meat Boy, set out to make a platform game recalling the ones they grew up with; McMillen speaks about his goal of communicating with others through his work and about Aether, which holds the loneliness, nervousness and fear of abandonment of his childhood. Phil Fish is in the fourth year of Fez, which was first announced at the Independent Games Festival in 2008 and brought him attention as an independent developer. Little has been heard of the game since, and his perfectionism has stretched the development out; Fez has become his identity.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Indie Game: The Movie (2012)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Indie Game: The Movie was criticized for its one-sided portrayal of Phil Fish's ex-business partner Jason DeGroot, who was portrayed as trying to sabotage Fez but was never interviewed or shown; its credits originally said he 'asked not to participate'. Shawn McGrath, who worked with DeGroot on Dyad, called the filmmakers 'liars'.
- Swirsky and Pajot recorded over 300 hours of footage for Indie Game: The Movie before cutting it down to follow four developers, aiming to show game development in the past, present and future tenses.
