Video games and creative culture: independent or bound by a common shoestring?

Talk creative cultures and you may think high-end and low-end, the starving artist and the toast of Manhattan. But what about video game makers? Where do they fit in? The very idea of an independent video game breaks with the most popular narrative of what video games are: things for young men and boys, made by ultra-rich corporations. Going by this version, video games are big, bad, ultra-violent and frequently misogynistic.