One of the best films i have seen

It's Difficult NOT To Enjoy This Movie

An unexpected masterpiece

Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

When documentaries were backed about big companies, the documentary creators would do their best to mimic a balanced approach even if it is not the case. Enter the world of self publishing and home video editing. Now documentary makers do their best to preach to the choir choosing the safety of a believer's niche over having any message. This one is from the latter group.And it is about the rejects of the gaming production world. And everything is in code words in which the losers are the best and it is the world conspiracy that is against them. Like independent? Independent of what? Of rent by living in mamma's basement. They use big distribution platforms. The obey Terms of Use. They write for Operating Systems made by big companies. Using coding libraries written and delivered by other big companies.Overall it is an exercise in lies and hypocrisy. One French programmer talks about how brave he and his buddies are because there is no safety net. What? Rent control. Subventions from dozens of state corporations. Tax breaks. Free University. State employment. Rent control. State subventions for health care. High wages for spouses and parents who can support the social reject. Yea, that is no safety net.And the games are retarded at best. Concepts developed 20-30 years ago rehashed with low quality visuals. The games are described as great or better. And I am certain the speaker is believing this the same way he will believe about making a soup: just because it is made by him, it must be good. Anyway, the excellent games will end up being played by dozens, mostly the creators, their families and the few socially isolated friends.There are almost no women. And I don't recall anything but rich white people moving from playing the racist cowboys and Indians to playing the independence game on somebody else's money.So it's a depressing story about delusion. About rich white mostly men playing kindergarten role games. And I don't talk about video games.Contact me with Questions, Comments or Suggestions ryitfork @ bitmail.ch

Before the end of this movie, I cried, cried twice. I deeply realized that it is never ever easy for an ordinary man to get huge success. But there is still some chance to help you get here only if you are open-minded to yourself and throw yourself into the business totally, work hard, delay gratification, you'll see success beckons to you. To implement that goal, you need to have an extremely clear understanding of yourself, such as what you want most out of life, what you are best in, what things you are really really want to do, what's the goal of your life and so on. Now then you have the direction, the rest of the way is pursuing it, straining all your nerves to it. Don't worry when there's no any joys, no social in your along way, hold on, finally, you'll can't help crying out because you made it.

People are reviewing it as garbage, but giving it 5+ stars? Cmon, little bit of logic here.Some documentaries are well done, although decent video game oriented documentary does not come to mind at the moment, and some are garbage, like this one.People selected to be featured in this documentary were badly chosen. Phil Fish is known drama queen of indie game community. Guy threatens to kill himself every other week, just like he did in this documentary, then doesn't. He has some sort of mental issues and I do not want to make fun of him but I also do not feel he should be used as representation of indie game developer as its insulting to the community.To prove my point, Phil Fish stated he would kill himself if he does not finish sequel to Fez, ... then just ... nothing. He just quit. Its not that I wanted guy to kill himself, but if he was that adamant he would finish Fez sequel, then he should have finished it. I would not have played it as I did not like Fez, but this way I just lost all respect for the guy. He left all of his fans hanging and is not nothing but a butt end of the jokes all over internet.The other guys featured were equally disappointing. Edmund McMillen just makes games that are perhaps suited to be free on Kongregate and ad supported, but there is no way I would ever deem them worth paying for. On top of that he seems intent on making himself sound like rejected weirdo during the course of entire documentary. Its like he just keeps screaming "look at me, I am different", problem is, it does not come off as a positive thing.Unless you know who people featured are, or are interested, I would give this one a pass. Even then, it is one of most boring, uninformative, documentaries I've seen recently. If you want to know about topic its more productive to hit forums or just contact few indie guys on Facebook. Seriously.

The game developing process. What goes into it? What are the stresses that one may endure? This documentary takes a fairly in depth look at the lives of 3 particular games being developed, and the personal lives of those creating it(Fez,Super Meat Boy and Braid). Focusing more on the positive and negative aspects of how the process effects the people involved is what draws you in. There is no acting, action, etc. just the real life drama that goes into deadlines, marketing, and all things aside from what code to put on what page. The presentation may not be for all viewers but it definitely is interesting to see where a person can snap, or reap the rewards of years of hard work even when others wrote them off as crazy. I was personally drawn into the inner conflicts that were shown to real feel the real life emotions. Must see for gamers, that is for sure, but also for a casual viewer, I believe that it is something interesting to see just what goes on day by day (they seem to keep hours like me). 6.4/10