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I had been looking forward to this documentary for obvious reasons lol It follows the lives of a few sets of developers at different stages: The developer of Fez as he tries to finish things up and reignite the hype he had several years earlier before some issues caused many delays, the developers of Super Meat Boy as they submit the game to Microsoft to enter XBLA, Jonathan Blow a couple of years after the release and explosive success of Braid, and a few cameos from other developers.

What is striking about it is how well the documentary caught the passion and emotions of indie game development. Obviously I am not at the level of these guys, but it does give you that feeling that all it takes is that one moment to be right there at that spot. It is intense, emotional, and very realistic. And for any indie game dev, I can say it is very inspirational. It leaves you feeling like something great could be just around the corner if you are dedicated and put the work in. The Super Meat Boy team (2 guys) were on the verge of being completely broke when they released SMB, to the point where they could barely feed themselves and appeared like they were both about to fall over the edge.

But it is a great experience to watch it as an indie game dev, and I completely recommend it! I don't know how long it will be on Netflix, so if you have Netflix Instant, check it out!

wahoo I am watching this!

it's not on latinamerican netflix

edit: and yeah it sucks, the newest movie is the hunger games.

Well, if it makes you feel any better, we don't have The Hunger Games on Netflix Instant up here, and I highly doubt we will be getting it anytime soon. It is still a huge money-maker on Blu-Ray here, and most of the "new" movies on American Netflix are several years old or are direct-to-video releases lol. I mostly watch Netflix for TV series or odd, small documentaries like this one. Sucks though that you don't have it there. Maybe you could find it at a video rental store if you still have them there

Just got Netflix in Denmark, and its kind of a scraped version of the us version, sadly.

Ontopic, great movie, make sure you see it, really make you hooked on game dev!

Yea we still got video rental stores heh. Finally watched the movie it's really awesome! And i want to play super meat boy

Yeah, I want to play it, too, after hearing how inspired by Mega Man they were!

About the video stores, they are probably going to be gone world-wide within the next 10 years since streaming is destroying their business so hard lol. In the US, Blockbuster killed the mom-and-pop video stores in the mid-90's, and now they are feeling the same thing

Great movie. Saw it when it came to Chicago during their tour across the U.S.A. It twas simply amazing!

Very inspiring, too! Although it does show the dark side of indie game development ("If I don't finish this game, I am going to kill myself. So that is my motivation to keep going"), but it shows the great sides, too! It has gotten me interested again in traditional game development

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