Klei Entertainment was founded in 2005 by ex Relic Entertainment programmer Jamie Cheng. Klei are based in Vancouver, British Columbia.
They are mostly know for their unique graphics style in all of there games and those games include Mark of the Ninja, Shank 1 & 2, Don't Starve and Invisible Inc. Klei Entertainment currently employ 35 people. |
Telltale Games was founded in 2004 by Kevin Bruner and Troy Molander.
Telltale are also known for their creative art styles as well as the in depth story lines that are included in most of there games. They specialise in episodic games meaning that episodes of the game are released over a few months. They are extremely well known for the highly successful game adaptation for The Walking Dead aswell as The Wolf Among Us and the up coming Borderlands & Game of Thrones episodic games. Telltale currently employ 180 people. |
The competitor for most indie company's would be the most dominant AAA developers. If a big AAA game is released around the same time as a small indie game then it would probably be over shadowed by the AAA which will result in less sales. However there a few examples of indie games gaining huge popularity such as Minecraft and League of Legends.