Developer Jenova Chen left the team behind Will Wright's Spore (PC, Nintendo Wii, DS, Mac, and Mobile) to pursue his indie aspirations starting with the February 2007 release of the microbial game flOw.

Now that his team Thatgamecompany is working on its follow-up game Flower, can Chen say that the career move was worth the risk? In an interview with Gamasutra, Chen relates to us the incentives of being an indie developer.

For Chen, it's very hard to change a certain company's mindset from within, thus, his venture into the indie scene where there is unlimited freedom on game concepts:

Why would I start a company just to make the same kind of game which I can get a much better life in another company? You know, the reason we started this company [Thatgamecompany] is because nobody is making this kind of game, and to expand that emotional spectrum of video games -- having more people be able to enjoy video games. The only way to do it is to just do it yourself.

Via Gamasutra