Cut loose from big-business, I suppose I am free to consider myself a freelancer or an indie, but the last thing I want to be is a bum.  I need to stay active, to keep getting my ideas down on (digital or literal) paper or I will go mad.  Unemployment does not suit me, but working on my own projects while I find gainful employment is enough for now.  Of course, better than ‘stay active’ is ‘work toward independence’ and at least two people have actually congratulated me on my redundancy because it got me out of the rat-race.

The first responsibility of every indie developer, even those who want to sell their indie business to a big publisher one day, is to stop thinking like an employee.  Now that I am free to think outside the box, I have a responsibility to go ahead and think outside the box.

With this in mind, I decided to put a name to this vehicle of mine.  If I am to bring in other developers (and I intend to, once I can pay them) then I need a name and a company.  Later on, it will have limited liability and insurance and HR and stuff, but all it needs now is a website and maybe a blog.

The name of that business, that vehicle, is Freya’s Aett.  Perhaps it would be best to direct you to the site for this project - An Introduction to Freya’s Aett - and let it speak for itself.  For added poetic value, I did not look up the exact translation of ‘Aett’, but it turns out to mean ‘family’, which is a good description of the kind of bond you need to have to commit yourself to making an indie game without ever knowing if it will even make any money…