Indie Game: The Movie

Name: Indie Game: The Movie
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Released: 2012-05-18
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Edmund McMillen, Tommy Refenes, Phil Fish, Jonathan Blow, Anthony Carboni

2012·Documentary·1h 43m

7.1

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Follows the dramatic journeys of video game developers as they create and release their games to the world. It's about making video games, but at its core, it's about the creative process, and exposing yourself through your work.

Directed by Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky

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Edmund McMillen

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Tommy Refenes

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Phil Fish

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Jonathan Blow

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Anthony Carboni

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Popular Reviews

55 reviews

James W

7.0★ · 05/14/26

Super Meat Boy devs are chill and hard workers
Jonathan blow dude is pretentious but has a lot of interesting stuff to say
Phil Fish is still as insufferable and unlikeable as I remembered

Documentary shows how hard game dev is and the toll it takes on a person. But the biggest lesson is to not be like and react like Phil Fish. (Fez was a pretty good game tho)

Plarasett

8.0★ · 02/28/26

That Edmund guy seems like a pretty good game dev, just wish he made something a bit more focused on cats though.

vvvynonna

went into it to hate on j blow but feeling nothing but love for team meat and a bit of empathy for Philippe Poisson

Sam

7.0★ · 01/06/26

Genuinely what is wrong with indie devs

Dylan FinnellPRO

Really interesting and humanizing look into that world. I liked this a lot more than I thought I would.