Indie

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

Gaming

 * Independent video game development, video games created without financial backing from large companies
 * Indie game, any game (board-based, video, or otherwise) published or produced outside mainstream means; a subset of third party game
 * 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
 * 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

Music

 * Independent music, subculture music that is independent of major producers
 * Indie dance, or alternative dance, a type of dance music rooted in indie rock and indie pop
 * Indie electronic, a music genre
 * Indie folk, a music genre that arose in the 1990s from singer/songwriters in the indie rock community influenced by folk and country music
 * Indie hip hop, hip hop music that primarily exists in the independent music scene
 * Indie music scene, localized indie music, listed by country
 * Indie pop, a genre of alternative pop music
 * Indie rock, a genre of alternative rock music
 * Independent record label, operates without major corporate funding
 * Indie Recordings, a Norwegian independent record label specializing in heavy metal

Media and art

 * Independent film, a film produced outside of the major film studios
 * Indiewood
 * Independent media, media free of influence by government or corporate interests
 * Indie art, fine arts made by artists independent of commercial fine arts establishments
 * Independent animation
 * Indie comics, independently published comics
 * Indie design, for handmade products by independent artisans
 * Indie literature, a book published outside mainstream publishing
 * Indie poster, or alternative poster, a poster created by a novice graphic designer
 * Small press, or indie press, a book or magazine publisher whose publications appeal to small, niche audiences, and are typically not distributed widely

Sports

 * Independent baseball league, a professional league in the U.S. and Canada not affiliated with Major League Baseball
 * Independent circuit, or indie circuit, in professional wrestling, comprising smaller promotions that do not have national TV contracts

Other uses

 * Independent business (unique and not part of a chain or larger corporation).
 * Independent soda, made by small, privately run companies
 * Non-denominational church, or independent church, a church unaffiliated with a denominational organization