"HBO has optioned IGTM for the basis of a (fictional) series. It is NOT a comedy. It is NOT a sitcom."

The above was a Facebook post from the directors of Indie Game: The Movie, a documentary that follows a handful of independent game developers and their projects (including Super Meat Boy, Fez and Braid), which premiered over the weekend at the Sundance Film Festival to apparent critical acclaim. According to an exclusive report over at Deadline, HBO and super producer, Scott Rudin, optioned the rights to craft a fictional drama around the documentary after its showing, though this information was quickly distorted to suggest it would in fact be a comedy of some sorts. Thankfully, and from the horse's mouth no less, it won't be.

(At least for now.)

Not every project that is optioned for production actually makes it off the ground, but as an avid gamer and an avid fan of almost everything HBO produces, if this did find its legs, I'd watch the s*** out of it.

Check out the official trailer for Indie Game: The Movie embedded below.

Looks really good!

Only hesitation would be that they took what could have been a good real life documentary and added 'drama' (aka made up s***) to it?

It would have been interesting just on it's own IMO.

Still, i'm with you HBO seam unable to make garbage - they are always always on the money.

To be fair, 'critical acclaim' at Sundance is some ponce congratulating other ponce's on their work in the hope of said ponce's reciprocation for their entry.

It could be interesting, but game development is no longer Broussard rocking up in his Ferrari driving it into the 3d Realms foyer and ordering another engine change on DNF while waving dual-wielded plastic bimbo's at staff. I'm guessing that they would need to add some drama, so episodes like Compiling and Debugging are a lot less boring than dudes tapping a keyboard debugging or bouncing a basketball against the wall for 16hrs while it compiles.

Looking forward to see the result though.

do you have to be a fag to make an indie game? trailer answers affirmative.

Looks interesting

Also, somewhat related :)