Indie

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Indie is a short form of "independence" or "independent"; it may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Gaming

  • Independent video game development
    , video games created without financial backing from large companies
  • Indie game, any game (board-based, video, or otherwise) published or produced outside mainstream means; a subset of third party game
    • Indie Fund, an organization created by several independent game developers to help fund budding indie video game development
    • Indie Game Jam, an effort to rapidly prototype video game designs and inject new ideas into the game industry
    • Indie role-playing game, a role-playing game published outside of traditional, "mainstream" means
      • Indie RPG Awards, annual, creator-based awards for Indie role-playing game products

Music

  • Independent music, subculture music that is independent of major producers
    • Indie dance, or alternative dance, a type of dance music rooted in indie rock and indie pop
    • Indie electronic
      , a music genre
    • Indie folk, a music genre that arose in the 1990s from singer/songwriters in the indie rock community influenced by folk and country music
    • Indie hip hop
      , hip hop music that primarily exists in the independent music scene
    • Indie music scene, localized indie music, listed by country
    • Indie pop, a genre of alternative pop music
    • Indie rock, a genre of alternative rock music
  • Independent record label, operates without major corporate funding
  • Indie Recordings, a Norwegian independent record label specializing in heavy metal

Media and art

  • Independent film, a film produced outside of the major film studios
  • Independent media, media free of influence by government or corporate interests
  • Indie art, fine arts made by artists independent of commercial fine arts establishments
  • Indie comics
    , independently published comics
  • Indie design, for handmade products by independent artisans
  • Indie literature, a book published outside mainstream publishing
  • Indie poster, or alternative poster, a poster created by a novice
    graphic designer
  • Small press, or indie press, a book or magazine publisher whose publications appeal to small, niche audiences, and are typically not distributed widely

Sports

  • Independent baseball league, a professional league in the U.S. and Canada not affiliated with Major League Baseball
  • Independent circuit, or indie circuit, in professional wrestling, comprising smaller promotions that do not have national TV contracts

Other uses

  • Independent business
    (unique and not part of a chain or larger corporation).
  • Independent soda
    , made by small, privately run companies
  • Non-denominational church
    , or independent church, a church unaffiliated with a denominational organization

See also