Bibliographic record
Abstract
Background Independent or “indie” games play a significant role in the contemporary game industry, and Canada is home to several prominent hubs of indie gaming activity. Analysis Drawing on 34 interviews with developers and community organizers across the country, this article examines how Canadian indie game developers construct their identities and communities on three levels: global, national, and local. Conclusions and Implications While online and local indie gaming communities provide a variety of material and symbolic benefits to participation, national identification is conspicuously absent, except in certain contexts tied to cultural policy and government support. This article argues that the intersection of the global and the local is the primary site of indie identity and community and considers the implications for Canadian cultural industries more generally. Keywords New media; Globalization; Cultural industries policy; Arts policy; Production/co-production RÉSUMÉ Contexte De nos jours, les jeux en ligne indépendants occupent une place significative dans l’industrie du jeu vidéo, et il y a plusieurs centres de jeux indépendants au Canada. Analyse Cet article se fonde sur 34 entrevues avec des créateurs et des organisateurs communautaires partout au pays afin d’examiner comment les créateurs de jeux vidéo indépendants au Canada construisent leurs identités et leurs communautés à trois niveaux : mondial, national et local. Conclusions et implications Au niveau local, les communautés de jeux indépendants en ligne ont beau offrir un éventail de bénéfices matériaux et symboliques aux participants, l’identification nationale brille par son absence, sauf dans quelques contextes établis grâce à certaines politiques culturelles et à un appui de la part du gouvernement. Cet article soutient que l’intersection du mondial et du local est le site primaire de l’identité et de la communauté indépendantes et il considère plus généralement les implications des jeux indépendants pour les industries culturelles canadiennes. Mots clés Nouveaux médias; Mondialisation; Politiques sur les industries culturelles; Politiques sur les arts; Production/coproduction
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".