Indie Game: The Movie Trailer Likely to Make You Tear Up

http://m.deadline.com/2012/01/sundance-hbo-and-scott-rudin-to-turn-docu-indie-game-into-series/

HBO is making a comedy based on this documentary. Weird, I know.

I'm 40 minutes from Park City, and I've never been to Sundance. Would have been neat to see this. I'll have to wait, though. Oh well.

Sunn 0))) shirt, awesome.

Wow.. how did I miss this article. That trailer was awesome... mostly I think due to the amazing music that was used. The cuts were amazing also... just enough time at each scene to make you feel the gravity of the moments.

@Cribba said:

I'm not a huge fan of the term "indie" because it forces developers into a stereotype

This is exactly what this trailer does.

It's hard to make a movie about a group of people without putting them into a group.

@VincentLonga

Just saw the film at Sundance, and it was AMAZING. The film makers did a great job of being mostly objective, and there was a lot of great insight into Team Meat and Phil Phish. They shot most of the Team Meat footage before the release of SMB, and it was, for me, very emotional to see what they went through during crunch and launch day. The film is probably about 40% Team Meat, 40% Phil Phish, and 20% Jonathan Blow. I think tat's mostly because when they started filming, the story of Braid had cooled down a bit. I did laugh and cry; there are some pretty emotional moments that come off as genuine and not staged at all. HIGHLY recommend this movie to ANYONE. Being Sundance, there were a lot of non-gamers in the room, and when the credits rolled there was applause and cheering. Great film, and the film makers seem pretty cool and down to erf.

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Just saw the film at Sundance, and it was AMAZING. The film makers did a great job of being mostly objective, and there was a lot of great insight into Team Meat and Phil Phish. They shot most of the Team Meat footage before the release of SMB, and it was, for me, very emotional to see what they went through during crunch and launch day. The film is probably about 40% Team Meat, 40% Phil Phish, and 20% Jonathan Blow. I think tat's mostly because when they started filming, the story of Braid had cooled down a bit. I did laugh and cry; there are some pretty emotional moments that come off as genuine and not staged at all. HIGHLY recommend this movie to ANYONE. Being Sundance, there were a lot of non-gamers in the room, and when the credits rolled there was applause and cheering. Great film, and the film makers seem pretty cool and down to erf.

I want a documentary about Fumito Ueda.

The fact that Fez still isn't out yet worries me. I hope Phil can pull through and get it done this year.

@Icemael: I guess I've seen enough "Making Of" featurettes on big-budget games, and don't feel like watching someone like Cliff talk about GoW, but that might just be because I'm not a big GoW fan. And I don't see him talking much about Jazz Jackrabbit.

That being said, I'd love to see a full-length doc on Miyamoto, since he always has such interesting inspirations that lead to his games.

@MysteriousBob: I'd say that Braid being a fun and interesting puzzle game was why I started playing it, and was compelled to finish it. The story (as pretentious as the prose was that delivered it) was the reason I had my girlfriend watch the ending when I played through it a second time.

Also, I think that solo / small group nature of these teams leads to the personal nature of the games they make, and not the desire to "force artistic stuff" into them. David Jaffe has mentioned (as came up during the E3 Bombcasts) that God of War came from the stuff he was dealing with in his personal life. I think that because it's a team of one or five, not fifty, that the "personal-ness" of the result is much closer to the surface.

@Icemael: I mean, wouldn't you want to see this, knowing that there's at least a possibility that one of these guys will become the next one of those guys?

Also, donated. Can't wait to see it.

Given the self-determination and effort these talented guys put in, I'm happy to help in my little way. Looking forward to the final movie.

Also check out the Superbrothers soundtrack:

http://jimguthrie.bandcamp.com/

FYI: the 'um' in my username stands for University of Manitoba, and is the userid and email address they gave me back in '91. Obviously, I pledged! Can't wait to see this movie!

I would watch this movie.

Oh wow. I'm a bit of a film maker. When I get paid, consider some wedge pledged.

Wow this looks great, I'd love to see it.

oh, the super meat boy guy is wearing a sunn o))) shirt. would love to see a gnarly super doom boy edition

+15 backer

I'd watch a movie like this if it was about developers like Miyamoto, Kamiya, Mikami, Sid Meier and Blezenski.

That was really optimistic, I love it.

as much as i loved braid, im getting REAAALLLY sick of jonathan blow.

he made one game, and he has been riding it since.

Plain awesome. Love this kind of documentary (such as "Get Lamp") and will be eager to watch it.

That trailer looks awesome, something I could definitely put a couple bucks behind. Can't wait.

A movie about Team Meat?  
 
omg omg omg omg  <3 <3 <3

Terrific stuff here.

Why would I fall in love or tear up?
 
It looks like yet another production in same style as all the other internet related semi-documentaries we are seeing lately.

chipped in 75$, and I'm hoping its money well spent.

+1 backer

Thanks for letting us know Patrick!

Awesome. I donated $15 when I heard about this, just so I can get a digital copy. Hope it comes out well baked.

Looks boring and pretentious. I guess Jonathon Blow's involved.

These guys look like a bunch of douchebags. Stop trying to force some weird artistic justification into your games. We played Braid because it was a fun puzzle game, not because 'it goes into deepest emotions'. Its a video game, not art. Get out of your own arse.

Looks neat. I'll be sure watch this. 
 
Also, first time I hear about this Fez game. 

Hopefully it's more informative and less art-piece.  What did they do right, what did they do wrong, etc. 
 
The last thing I want to watch is interviews with hipsters who happen to make games.

@ZagZagovich: I'll have to look for that Podcastle, I've enjoyed listening to Sterling on The Electric Hydra. As for Bob's Game, I had been watching it for a while (even got a reply from him on a YouTube trailer he posted). What a strange chain of events...

Documentaries are the beast! I can't wait for this!

Overly sentimental.

I'm holding out for Indie Game: The Movie: The Game. Or is that just Game Dev Story?

God I want this so bad.

Fuck.

@MancombSeepgood said:

@HomemadeZiggurat: They will be appearing at some point either in the feature film or the special edition, more details on their kickstarter page.

Thanks, that's good to hear. I guess I can be in for $15.

An indie movie and indie games. Fuckin' Meta.

The amount of straw-grabbing negativity in the comments is fucking disgusting.

Based on the quality of this trailer, there are some really talented people producing this film. I will give them money.