Indie

Look up Indie or indie in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Indie is a shortform of "independence" or "independent"; it may refer to:

Independent media
- Indie art, fine arts made by artists independent of commercial fine arts establishments
- Indie design, for handmade products by independent artisans
- Indie literature, a book published outside of mainstream publishing
- Small press, a book or magazine publisher whose publications appeal to small, niche audiences, and are typically not distributed widely
Indie comics
Independent business (unique and not part of a chain or larger corporation).
Independent circuit, professional wrestling independent promotions
Independent church (disambiguation), a church unaffiliated with a denominational organization
Independent film, a low-budget film by a small studio
Independent soda, made by small privately run companies

Games

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
Indie game, any game (video, board-based, or otherwise) published or produced outside mainstream means
Independent video game development, video games created without financial backing from large companies
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

Independent record label, operates without major corporate funding
Independent music, subculture music that is independent of major producers
- Indie dance, a type of dance music rooted on indie rock and indie pop
- Indie electronic
- Indie folk, a music genre that arose in the 1990s from singer/songwriters in the indie rock community showing heavy influences from folk music scenes of the 50s, 60s and early 70s, country music, and indie rock
- Indie hip hop, hip hop music that primarily exists in the independent music scene
- Indie pop, a genre of alternative pop music
- Indie rock, a genre of alternative rock music
Indie Recordings, a Norwegian independent record label specialising in heavy metal