Fragmentation of Indie Video Games

The movie we watch gave strong insight into what goes into make a  indie video game. The developers undergo grueling work schedules to get these games out to the public. The indie games are unlike mainstream media games, they are created on a personal level by one or a couple of people. The indie games can definitely be labeled as niche games. As we saw in the movie most games were created for nostalgic reasons. Although the games are niche, the games are starting to be noticed with a process described by Napoli called fragmentation. In brief Napoli suggest that fragmentation is broken down into two catagories media fragmentation and audience fragmentation. Media fragmentation is the growth in new techniques of delivering media. In the movie all the games that were created had been featured in the arcade section on xbox live. The indie games are finding there way to new audiences via fragmentation of xbox live.