The console is also shaping up to be an indie powerhouse of note, so that got us thinking
about indie titles we'd like to see on the machine.
You beg and plead for a AAA title, they give you one and a game that is one of the best games in its genre, as well as one of the most talked
about indie titles in years.
What
about the indie titles?
Not exact matches
The opening act in Toronto feels like a standard
indie comedy
about (yet another) white male's arrested development, the piano - based score and aversion to dialogue feels indebted to silent films, and once the film transitions to the wilderness it goes into European arthouse territory (the
title card doesn't appear until James ends up in BC, a choice that implies this is where the film really begins).
IFC Midnight has debuted a short teaser trailer for an
indie horror film
titled The Autopsy of Jane Doe, a new thriller
about morticians who encounter a «Jane Doe» body unlike any other.
For those of you who haven't been hearing everyone freak out
about it, Cuphead is a new
indie title for Xbox One and PC...
This isn't even the entire list either, i'm sure there's
about a dozen
indie titles crammed in throughout the holiday as well.
But Yacht Club Games — the team behind the hit
indie title Shovel Knight — is the first third - party company to launch its own figure under Nintendo's amiibo brand, and the studio opened up
about its experience producing the Shovel Knight amiibo.
IFC has debuted a trailer for an
indie sports drama
titled Wolves, a coming - of - age story
about a star basketball player struggling with pressures and problems in his family.
Saban Films has released the first teaser trailer for an
indie drama
titled Come and Find Me, a mysterious thriller
about a missing woman.
Heck even INDIES do a better job, talking
about 2 - 20 people on a
indie team, just look at Trine, nano Assault and some other
indie titles.
Over the course of the next few weeks and months then, we'll be using this space to keep you Gamewatchers appraised of all the
indie titles that we feel you should know
about.
Eventually, it's all any of his family can think
about in «Youth in Oregon,» a schematic and bathos - laden end - of - life
indie from director Joel David Moore, whose
title, if you replaced «Oregon» with «Asia» and said it out loud, cutely tells you the issue at hand.
Mineko's Night Market, an upcoming
indie title described as a game
about crafting crafts, eating eats, and catting cats, released more details...
A trailer has debuted for the snowy
indie horror
titled Cold Ground, a creature feature
about a team of documentary filmmakers who venture into the mountains.
But the «Unity Engine Path» was a terrible way to say; Wii U has 50 + (mostly
indie titles) coming that we «do» know
about using Unity...
Sheila Roberts: There's lots to like
about «Band Aid,» a witty, cleverly
titled West Coast
indie comedy written, directed and starring Zoe Lister - Jones in her feature debut.
Grab some
indie titles and feel good
about where the money is going to at the same time.
It's an
indie game with a modest - sounding name, and if you didn't know anything
about it, you'd likely pass it up for more well - known
titles.
All of the above loom large in The Truth
About Emanuel, a fluttery
indie that opens with the grand announcement by the teenage
title character — played with an unrelentingly grim stare by Skins veteran Kaya Scodelario — that she's her own mother's «murderer without a motive.»
Scout attempts to vet out the wheat from the chafe, and hopefully we will only hear
about the best of the best and not
indie generic
title number 19281210912.
This was an all - star issue featuring stories by
indie cartoonists — including Garfield creator Jim Davis — but it sells just
about the level of the regular
title.
If you're talking
about a custom order from an
indie store of some specialized
title that might take longer; especially if the
indie store doesn't order in carton quantities... and by carton quantities... I'm not saying all one
title but a mixture of books to fill one carton... if that were the case the order would take longer to ship because of minimum orders.
We asked him
about getting an agent as a newer author and also as an established
indie author with some
titles under your belt.
I make a point of deploying my
indie titles out to a variety of platforms specifically so readers have a choice
about where to buy them.
It is unfortunate the none of the nominees on this list is a self - published
title, but as this list was reader - generated, it may be a telling sign of both how consumers perceive self - publishing, as well as how
indie authors still have their work cut out for them in terms of viable promotion opportunities to help readers know
about their work.
Visit the official landing page www.amazon.com/poweredbyindie to discover great
indie titles and learn more
about indie authors.»
Even formerly traditionally published authors like US President Ronald Reagan's daughter Patti Davis have told Good e-Reader that doors closed to them once their self - published
titles came along, specifically in review and interview opportunities; Davis even recounted how she appeared on NPR to promote one
title, but when she reached out to that same program
about her debut
indie title, she was told there was a policy in place against self - published works.
Other recommendations of sites not offering
titles but rather allowing readers to learn more
about the
indie authors whose books they are reading?
TLDR: An encouraging read for
indie authors looking to learn
about a wide range of marketing topics: covers,
titles, formatting, pricing, publishing to multiple platforms, and more.
An encouraging read for
indie authors looking to learn
about a wide range of marketing topics: covers,
titles, formatting, pricing, publishing to multiple platforms, and more.
With his first self - published
title in the early 80s, through his continuing works that detail the technology and the options that are available for authors, he may know more
about indie publishing than anyone other professional.
A
indie title you have never heard
about, will likely not be found and the books that matter will be.
The same happened within the console industry, if you weren't all
about indie support you were an asshole, now noone gives a shit and
indie sections are closing down in the stores coz everyone knows it's unreasonably difficult to find a decent
title when 95 % of them are awful.
She speaks
about the rise in self - publishing and how Smashwords is making
indie titles more accessible to libraries, eBook subscription sites and Overdrive.
Jason Chen, the founder of StoryBundle.com, joined us to talk
about how he started the site, how he's gone
about creating book bundles full of awesome
titles by traditionally published and
indie authors, and how he sells upwards of 3000 bundles in a 3 - week period over and over again.
Author Kristen Lamb blogged
about the five mistakes killing self - published authors Livia Blackburne did a comparison between her debut
indie title and her debut traditional
title.
I really can't think
about the people like you who might read my
indie titles.
The first two featured
titles — Crazy Little Thing by Tracy Brogan and The Second Chance Café by Alison Kent — were both published by Montlake, although USA Today, which first reported the news
about the podcast, says that «the books discussed will span a variety of publishers and imprints, including
indie - pubbed books.»
But while it will continue to be interesting to plot the progress of individual
titles, I suspect the more interesting sea changes will be those involving the kind of publishing perestroika that I write
about in my Beyond the Literary - Industrial Complex: How Authors and Publishers Are Using the Amazon Kindle and Other New Technologies to Unleash a 21 - Century
Indie Movement of Readers and Writers, including its chapter «Rebel Distribution and Amazon's Marketplace of the Mind: You Need a Publisher Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle.»
At this stage, they've focused on getting a selection of Australian
titles, mostly from
indie publishers, but are also talking to the major international publishers
about supporting the service.
I should also mention one thing I am very proud
about is the fact that Kobo Writing Life allows
indie published authors the ability to set up their books for pre-order, meaning you might be able to pre-order an
indie author's
title from Kobo before it is available at most other eRetailers.
The cool thing
about indie publishing is that you don't need to sell tons of any given
title to make good money.
Basically, if you guys do reports that capture vastly different numbers of
titles, comparisons
about how many are
indie, Big 5, etc. are not going to work.
Since libraries and bookstores are reluctant to stock
indie titles, this means falling back on the free or 99c promo, which can produce a nice surge in rankings and thus sales but does, ultimately, promote that culture of buying rather than reading you're talking
about.
Your hard data
about the number of
titles by
Indie authors vs. BIG5 publishers actually supports my theory.
The data was further examined by taking a look at the breakdown of author categories within the group waiting to make money on their
indie titles, which is as follows:
about 75 percent are
indie - only authors, 17 percent are hybrid published (meaning they are both
indie and traditionally published), 5 percent are former hybrid and 3 percent did not answer the question
about how many books they published.
As I scrolled down to the bottom of the page to look at the latest Amazon forum posts, the first discussion on the list was
titled «How to avoid
Indie authors» so you know I just had to see what this was all
about.
About two months after news of Binding coming to Nintendo broke, another big
indie surprise was announced by the company: It was teaming up with Humble Bundle to sell a batch of
indie titles.
Part of Edelweiss's appeal is its ability to present comprehensive and up - to - date information
about each
title in the catalog — including bestsellers, award winners, reviews, and information like where the author is based — especially important for
indie titles.