Indie games 

Indipendant games are indie games, games that are made by small groups of people or just one person without using a game publisher and without the financial backing from a game publisher. They are usually low budget games and are made quite simple and basic. Indie games are usually sold using digital distribution an example of this would be minecraft Xbox 360 edition that is sold on the Xbox for Microsoft points. Digital distribution is where games, music or films are sold over the internet and downloaded straight on to a console like an Xbox or play station 3, digital distribution can also be streaming from companies like love film or Netflix where you pay so much a months and can stream anything from their website or app to you console. 

Indie games are different from normal games because a lot of normal games have big budgets like GTA so they can make everything look real with good graphics, they can also pay to put copy's of real cars with their real names in the game and can pay to put real music on the radios in the car, rockstar games paid five thousand pound for each song to put them on the radio in their cars on the game. Compared to an indie game like minecraft where everything is in blocks and the characters don't look real, this is the style of the game but there is a noticeable difference between the characters on GTA and the characters on minecraft. Also on the new GTAs when you shoot someone in the leg that is the part of the body that starts to bleed but in minecraft when you hit someone with a sword it hurts the whole body of the character. 

Case study: minecraft is an indie game, it was developed by 4J studios. Minecraft is a game where you can build anything you want and go mining for things like diamonds, iron, gold and coal. Minecraft is a large free roam map where you can do and build what you want. The things you can make from the stuff you get from mining are diamond armour, diamond swords, pick axes, shovels, and axes. You can make all of these out of gold iron or diamond, diamond is the best one to make it out of but it is a lot harder to find diamonds when you are mining. With coal you can make torches to light up dark places like when you are mining, you can also use coal to cook things like food in the furnace and to make glass from sand when you cook it in the furnaces using coal as fuel. You can also make beds on minecraft so you can sleep at night, and you can build houses out of anything but they are usually made out of cobblestone or soil. You build houses to put you bed in so you don't het woken up and killed by the monsters on the game. The monsters are zombies, skeletons that shoot you with arrows and creepers that explode when they get close to you. If you kill zombies they drop feathers and with feathers you can make arrows. If you kill skeletons they drop bones and arrows, with the bones you can speed up things like trees growing or sugar cane or wheat. If you kill a creeper they drop gunpowder and you can make TNT with it. To make a bed you need wool which you can get from sheep and wood which you can get from trees. With the newest update of minecraft there are pistons and sticky pistons. With pistons you can move blocks without digging them up and replacing them, with the sticky pistons you can make secret rooms because the sticky pistons can move blocks and pull them back this is like a door but it just looks like the wall.

Minecraft is an indie game, it is a game about building anything you want and mining for things like coal,Iron, gold and diamond. You can then make things with the stuff that you have just got from mining like diamond armour, diamond swords, pick axes, shovels and axes, you can also make all that with iron, gold, stone or wood but they won't be as good as diamond. The diamonds are the hardest things to find on the game. You also make yourself a bed to sleep at night and a house to stay in, to make a bed you need to get wool from sheep and wood from the trees and make a crafting table from wood then you can make a bed. You can make bricks from clay, or just dig up cobblestone or soil to build you house out of. With coal you can make torches to give you light in dark places like in mines, or you can use coal for fuel to cook things like food in the furnace or to make glass from cooking sand in the furnace.  You can pick different skins on minecraft which changes the look of the character, you can be the normal character called Steve or there are different choices like boxer Steve or tuxedo Steve and some more. In minecraft you can play online with your friend and go on each others maps and build things there and work together to do things like stop the monster spawners, these are places in the mines where monsters spawn you have to kill the ones that have spawned and then cover the little box in torches to stop any more from spawning. Usually there is a chest in their and you get food from it and sometimes some iron. The monsters in the game are zombies, skeletons that shoot you with bow and arrows and creepers that explode when they get close to you, if you kill a zombie it drops feathers, if you kill a skeleton it drops bones and arrow, if you kill a creeper it drops gunpowder that you can make TNT with. On the newest update of minecraft they have pistons and sticky pistons, with the pistons you can move blocks without digging them up and replacing them, with the sticky pistons you can make secret rooms because the stick pistons move the blocks forward then pulls them back so it's like another door.