I was looking at some recent examples of how the people and developers in the indy game industry have managed to become "legitimate" or at least more successful than the typical indy game developer both here and abroad.
Darwinia- Developed by the creators of the critically acclaimed yet small release Uplink, Darwinia was Intoversion Software's second game which pretty much sold way better than anybody could have anticipated. They are also the group that developed Defcon.
http://www.introversion.co.uk/
N+ - Developed by a two man team, N was a platformer based around tricky acrobatic game mechanics in which the player had to make their way through a death filled level to reach the exit. What was a free game and also updated and released on PC as N+, but still as a free game, is now available on Xbox Live and has DS and PSP versions coming out soon.
http://www.thewayoftheninja.org/
Cave Story - Many of you probably have heard of the awesome action-platformer created by one Japanese man over the course of five years. A fan translation was made for an English version and it's popularity has garnered it a PSP release, although it has been some time since I last heard new information regarding the PSP version.
English version - http://agtp.romhack.net/project.php?id=cavestory
Touhou Project - From Doujin group Team Shanghai Alice, the Touhou Project is in fact a series of bullet-hell shooter (and a couple fighting games) known for its characters and its creation by one man team ZUN. Although as far as I know none of the Touhou games have a "legitimate" release, the series has way more popularity than the average Doujin game.
http://www16.big.or.jp/~zun/html/game.html
Melty Blood - As mentioned in class, Melty Blood started as a doujin game by group French Bread with the help of Type Moon which was based off of Type Moon's game Lunar Legend Tsukihime which itself started as a small release and turned into a bigger game and anime series. Melty Blood, after several different versions were released, eventually received a PS2 release of Melty Blood: Act Cadenza and is a popular 2d fighter in Japan.
http://www.e56.info/mbacps2/index.html
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Wow. These are incredible. There are some really talented people making the Doujin games. It seems that legitamacy can be earned through financial success.
Defcon and Darwinia are awesome. They have that retro 8-bit look and have an air of geekiness around them and I still love them!
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