Indie
# 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
