Just how indie do you need to be to be Indie? Hello Games' Sean Murray finds it's not as simple as making sacrifices and being independent. And that loving Mario Galaxy is really not the done thing.
How a brush with the press made Hello Games realise it wasn't a unique and beautiful game developing snowflake - and all the prouder for the discovery.
Chris Dahlen meets the director of interactive fiction documentary Get Lamp and remembers how rich a world that only costs the time it takes to write it can be.