Indie

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
  • Indiewood
• Independent media, media free of influence by government or corporate interests
• Indie art, fine arts made by artists independent of commercial fine arts establishments
• Independent animation
• 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

• Independent (disambiguation)
• Indi (disambiguation)
• Indies (disambiguation)
• Indy (disambiguation)
• List of independent radio stations
• The Independent (disambiguation)