This past weekend Indie Game: The Movie premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. According to some early reviews it’s been very well received so much so, in fact, that it’s going to be spun off into a half-hour television show if HBO has its way. Earlier reports had it as a comedy show, but the producers of the film have clarified that it will not be a comedic show rather just a fictional show.

In any case, I’m not entirely sure how I feel about a fictional show just yet. I guess it really depends on how they do it. As a comedy I was certainly not going to be happy with it. The indie game industry certainly doesn’t need to be marginalized like that. However, I’m also having trouble figuring out what sort of half-hour fictional show they could do with regards to indie game developers that isn’t a comedy.

I guess we’ll see… or maybe not. For those unfamiliar with Hollywood, there are plenty of examples of a studio picking up an option and then just never having anything materialize out of it. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

[Indie Game: The Movie]