In this recurring column, Leigh Alexander visits exciting new creative frontiers in the video game space, which is seeing a period of incredible growth and diversification, attracting new talent, and demonstrating intriguing innovation. Here she'll cover emerging artists, trends, and so much more.The very nature of the commercial game industry lends itself to sameness: genres, themes, and gameplay mechanics get popular, and then publishers make more like that. Year after year, we look to the indie game community for the next crucial injection of innovation—notable indie games catch fire in the dev community and among fans, and make their way to the annual Independent Game Festival, where some of the most prominent new ideas can ultimately influence everything the community knows about design.
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