title: Indie
text: # Indie
  
  Indie is a short form of "independence" or "independent"; it may refer to:
  
  ## Arts, entertainment, and media
  
  ### Gaming
  
  * Independent video game development, video games created without financial backing from large companies
  * Indie game, any game (board-based, video, or otherwise) published or produced outside mainstream means; a subset of third party game
     * Indie Fund, an organization created by several independent game developers to help fund budding indie video game development
     * Indie Game Jam, an effort to rapidly prototype video game designs and inject new ideas into the game industry
     * Indie role-playing game, a role-playing game published outside of traditional, "mainstream" means
        * Indie RPG Awards, annual, creator-based awards for Indie role-playing game products
  
  ### Music
  
  * Independent music, subculture music that is independent of major producers
     * Indie dance, or alternative dance, a type of dance music rooted in indie rock and indie pop
     * Indie electronic, a music genre
     * Indie folk, a music genre that arose in the 1990s from singer/songwriters in the indie rock community influenced by folk and country music
     * Indie hip hop, hip hop music that primarily exists in the independent music scene
     * Indie music scene, localized indie music, listed by country
     * Indie pop, a genre of alternative pop music
     * Indie rock, a genre of alternative rock music
  * Independent record label, operates without major corporate funding
  * Indie Recordings, a Norwegian independent record label specializing in heavy metal
  
  ### Media and art
  
  * Independent film, a film produced outside of the major film studios
     * Indiewood
  * Independent media, media free of influence by government or corporate interests
  * Indie art, fine arts made by artists independent of commercial fine arts establishments
  * Indie comics, independently published comics
  * Indie design, for handmade products by independent artisans
  * Indie literature, a book published outside mainstream publishing
  * Indie poster, or alternative poster, a poster created by a novice graphic designer
  * Small press, or indie press, a book or magazine publisher whose publications appeal to small, niche audiences, and are typically not distributed widely
  
  ## Sports
  
  * Independent baseball league, a professional league in the U.S. and Canada not affiliated with Major League Baseball
  * Independent circuit, or indie circuit, in professional wrestling, comprising smaller promotions that do not have national TV contracts
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Independent business (unique and not part of a chain or larger corporation).
  * Independent soda, made by small, privately run companies
  * Non-denominational church, or independent church, a church unaffiliated with a denominational organization
  