Indy Game Development - What Is It?

Back in two thousand what was it? This was before indy game development was a thing. There were no successful india games yet back then. The idea that i could just make games on my own, that was a completely foreign concept to me. I wanted to talk t like the big studios and get hired. But when i got hired by a tripola studio, i found it so miserable that i sorted having fantasies about being creatively free. Within a year as a consultant, i started my own business which allowed me to finance myself with passive income. Andi can still go right now and work on any game i want without anyone telling me anything - even if i'm not