By definition, that would make them not indie. Actually, there needs to be separate terms for a game that is "indie style" vs "independent of a publisher or parent company",
Indie technology: Either Godot, some other smaller open source engine, or some heavily specialized open source solution that can only do a few kinds of games but has a small footprint.
Or sometimes just fully built from the ground up. It’s getting less common, but a few notable examples I know of are Minecraft, FTL (and I think Into the Breach), and Rollercoaster Tycoon is a whole story worth looking up.
Okay I gotta ask since I've seen it a bunch recently but when did transgender as a noun become accepted. It's an adjective.
I've seen trans people be called a Trans multiple times recently and it never got challenged but it always feels icky to me. I'm a transgender woman or a trans woman for short. If you want to shorten it further you may call me a woman but not a trans
I think the usage there isn't meant to be correct, but incorrect as a joke. It's like how I've seen people call themselves a tran. (Trans is obviously plural.)
If the fucker thinks that Metroid and Zelda are "baby games" you already can tell he's not the smartest of the bunch.
On the other side I never did called someone just "trans" but is good to know that it does matter.
I try to avoid using nouns in general for folks (because it's hard to tell through online/voice calls and I end up forgetting due to bad brain), so I end up just using they/them, you, or something more abstract (gamers, pals, friendos) to refer to people.
While I haven't engaged in using trans as a noun, I'd imagine others would for simplicity's sake, at least in their mind.
Same as with trans women the trans is still an adjective, i don't know why that would change. If you want to talk about multiple categories of trans people, you can just use trans people or something similar. If you're talking about my example at the end there it's because i literally am a trans woman and was talking about myself.
I've been enjoying the shit out of Headliners, which feels like a game that kinda emerged from a pile of unreal assets they found at the bottom of a box of VHS tapes at a flea market.