The Independent Gamer is a curated roundup of news from indie gaming, landing here every other Friday. There are few books about video games, and even fewer about independent games.
French writer and academic Bounthavy Suvilay has written one of the first dedicated entirely to the history, artwork and design of indie games — from narrative titles to art-focused and mechanic-heavy games.
It was published by Ablaze in August. Indie Games examines over 70 games and more than 50 developers, while also featuring interviews with Foam Sword's Rex Crowle, Giant Sparrow's Ian Dallas and Motion Twin's Yoann Laulan.
For this week's column, The Hollywood Reporter got on the phone with London-based Suvilay to speak about why video games are still not.
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