Indie Game: The Movie

While the debate over whether or not video games should be considered meaningful art continues on, the charming documentary Indie Game: The Movie points out that, either way, the medium is producing its share of starving artists. Despite a few missteps and narrative threads that go nowhere, the film does a compelling job of finding the human stories behind the pixelated characters of several games. It also manages to make the act of developing a video game feel, if not glamorous, then at least like a creative process with the same pressures, setbacks, and victories as any other medium -- no small feat when designing a video game consists mostly of exhausted, d...