Indie Dreams: Video Games, Creative Economy, and the Hyperindustrial Epoch

Crogan, Patrick

Abstract

© The Author(s) 2018. This essay draws on research undertaken as part of a research network project exploring the growth of independent game producers in recent years and the associated changes in the technological and economic conditions of the games industry in the UK, Europe, and the North American continent. It reflects on the possibilities of and challenges to a critical and creative maturing of video games as a cultural medium, evaluating these in the context of contemporary developments in global technoculture and the digital economy. Bernard Stiegler’s critical analysis of hyperindustrial consumer culture is mobilized in evaluating the dreams for an indie future of video games as a creative force in digital cultural transformation.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jan 6, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Feb 13, 2018
• Publication Date: Nov 1, 2018
• Deposit Date: Jan 17, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 17, 2018
• Journal: Games and Culture
• Print ISSN: 1555-4120
• Electronic ISSN: 1555-4139
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 7
• Pages: 671-689
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1555412018756708
• Keywords: Indie games, video games industry, video games as cultural form, neoliberalism, Bernard Stiegler
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/857444
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/1555412018756708
• Additional Information: Additional Information : © 2018. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications
• Contract Date: Jan 17, 2018