Based in Berlin, the studio will focus on
smaller budget indie games.
Not exact matches
At last year's Sundance Film Festival, this
small -
budget indie garnered rave reviews and the award for the best science - themed movie.
Below are 50 additional noteworthy films — including both big -
budget tentpoles and
smaller indie and foreign films — that either have confirmed 2013 release dates or seem extremely likely to reach theaters this year.
Hunt for the Wilderpeople star Julian Dennison goes from being in a
small indie film to being front and center in a huge big
budget spectacle.
One of the biggest Sundance hits of 2015 was a
small -
budget indie comedy about an aspiring high school filmmaker and his friendship with a sick classmate entitled Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.
The low -
budget indie picture reprised, in many ways, characters Stanton had inhabited, as he plays a prickly loner in a
small desert town.
Trevorrow, similarly, emerged with a
small -
budget indie (also about time travel) called Safety Not Guaranteed in 2012, which he parlayed into the moneymaking sensation Jurassic World.
When the action does hit it is as clean and fun as any film with a $ 175 million
budget and the Marvel brand slapped on it can expect to be, and is all the more impressive coming from a director who had only made
small indie dramas (see Wattsâ $ ™ Cop Car if you havenâ $ ™ t).
For a low - fi
indie movie, there are some great things at play — strong performances, an enticing script, mounting suspense, a huge payoff — even though some of the trappings of
small budgets features don't escape Manson Family Vacation «s grasp.
The film has a
small $ 15 million
budget and really, Warner Bros. doesn't play in that arena of
small budget films, so it makes more sense at an
indie and auteur minded arthouse shingle.
I hate to write negative film reviews for
small films that are clearly made with passion and scraped together on a shoestring
budget, but I also hate to watch
indie films that are clearly lacking vision and give my beloved horror genre a bad name.
But even outside of working with those filmmakers, Martinez has mostly scored
indie or
smaller -
budgeted studio fare, with more blockbuster - sized projects off his résumé.
Ringer editor - in - chief Sean Fennessey chats with Taika Waititi about his transition from
small indie comedies in New Zealand to Marvel's big -
budget superhero epic Thor: Ragnarok.
Made on a
small budget, with recognisable, though
indie - ish actors, this film is about love and regret, posing the characters and audience with the questions - what personal mistake would you go back and change if you could?
One of the more frustrating truths about self - publishing and libraries is that
indie authors have had a hard time getting their books into their own local libraries, as
budgets are
small and the risk of insult when the book is of poor quality is high.
Most readers are more sympathetic to
indie authors on a
small budget, who are selling their books cheaply.
Smaller authors might not be worth the punt and
indie presses often don't have the
budget.
The eye candy found in big
budget games might not be there for many
indie games, but I've found the fun factor on
smaller games to be many times that of top tier games.
One of the most common questions I get asked from
indie developers is «should I spend my
small budget on
It may not have the production values of today's blockbuster games, but the amount of high quality
Indie games available to play across the Internet is testament to the fact that great games can be made with
small budgets or even a single person with a great idea.
This January I did a talk at the Central European Games Conference in Vienna about how
small indie studios with tight
budgets and little PR expertise can do PR on their own.
On show were a mix of first party titles, and
smaller indie titles, with a wide mix of styles and
budgets.
Indie developers are attempting to capture the attention of a niche market or a
small segment of the overall gaming market with a first release, and to break - even as many first time indies are working with very tiny
budgets to begin with.
First and foremost, the contents below are targeted towards
smaller to mid-sized
indie game development teams that don't necessarily have the
budget to relocate their employees to a central office.
Kelly Wallick is the founder and President of the
Indie MEGABOOTH — a showcase that brings indie games into the heart of conferences previously dominated by AAA budgets and an initiative that works to create support networks for small development t
Indie MEGABOOTH — a showcase that brings
indie games into the heart of conferences previously dominated by AAA budgets and an initiative that works to create support networks for small development t
indie games into the heart of conferences previously dominated by AAA
budgets and an initiative that works to create support networks for
small development teams.
Indie companies, however, work off of much
smaller budgets.
As a
small indie team, we had a very limited marketing
budget.
Then you'll have «
indie» or games done on a very
small budget which succeed in making back money.
Notable successful
indie titles such as Braid and Limbo show how it is possible for
small studios with limited
budgets to develop compelling games.
I've been trying to parse my thoughts on the game and I think I've come up with something that makes sense to me — Shin Megami Tensei IV feels like it was made by a
small indie developer who got a hold of a LOT more money than they're used to (but not a lot of money where big -
budget development is concerned).
1 360 000, not 1 360 00; — RRB - Be happy about your success, hey, you are a
small indie developer without a
budget and Amnesia sold over one million copies!
Kelly is the founder and President of the
Indie MEGABOOTH — a showcase that brings indie games into the heart of conferences previously dominated by AAA budgets and an initiative that works to create support networks for small development t
Indie MEGABOOTH — a showcase that brings
indie games into the heart of conferences previously dominated by AAA budgets and an initiative that works to create support networks for small development t
indie games into the heart of conferences previously dominated by AAA
budgets and an initiative that works to create support networks for
small development teams.
Even a
small percentage over the last four years of a game that was bringing in $ 30 million a year, would likely be enough to start up a
small company and work on a
budget - priced
indie title at some point in the future.
Last generation its Xbox Live Arcade lead the charge into this brave new world of
small -
budget indie titles and saw a number of breakout hits including Geometry Wars 2, Braid, and Fez released first or exclusively on its platform.
Though he only joined ID@Xbox in 2014, he had previously worked for five years at Sony on its PlayStation
indie initiatives and before this he was a
small -
budget developer himself:
How have they endured the age of brown multiplayer shooters and
smaller -
budget indie platformers?
A platform for the games industry to help out the
smaller budgets of
indie developers and bring people closer together is in need of crowdfunding support on Kickstarter.
If the AAA publishers took some time to talk with
small indie devs, like those behind Fantastic Contraption, Chronos,
Budget Cuts, Cosmic Trip and many others, that would go a long way for the industry».
Kakao believes that the app store can act as a more effective and efficient ecosystem for developers — particularly
indie and
small studios — that may be short on staff or marketing
budgets, and / or looking for an alternative to Google Play or Apple's App Store.
Although these
indie games are made on
smaller budgets, and most of these games do not always get the attention it deserves from the public, there is still a slew of titles worth checking out.