Chip in to help make Indie Game – The Movie

As regular readers will tell you from the recent spate of interviews with indie developers, infinitecontinues likes to champion the cause of the ‘little guy’, being little guys ourselves of course. Clearly, we’re not alone in this. James Swirsky and Lisanne Pajot of digital film production company BlinkWorks want to make a feature-length film about indie game developers, but they need your help to do it.

The King Of Kong // Film

I can now count the number of good videogaming films I’ve seen on one finger. Back in the 90s, when the SNES and Megadrive were spearheading a resurgence in the medium, we had such delights as ‘Super Mario Bros.‘, ‘Street Fighter‘ and ‘Mortal Kombat‘, none of which were even close to achieving the legendary status in film as their namesakes did in videogaming.

Perhaps they were doing it wrong. It seems that the way to make a film about videogames that doesn’t stink is to make a documentary of people playing videogames, instead of tacking on your half-baked plot ideas onto existing intellectual property.