For downloadable, if you are doing the marketing on your own indiestyle… that (somewhat) means selling through your own site.

I specifically don’t like the idea of meshes/textures/animation, since that would be like bottomless pit. Shaders, concept art, materials… and so on. And if art would be split to smaller pieces, then coding section could also be increased by scripting, architecture design, testing and many more things. :)

I don’t think those lumooja’s categories are overlapping. For example, you can be an amateur indie (just started) or professional indie (earning a living from this) :)

I would think “I make money from my games” section could be there as well.

More thoughts?

90% score for me (i’m not good at creating music) but
i think some areas are missing :

I think you can remove “I’m in charge of my project”

And you can add :

I create the meshes for my game.

I create the textures for my game.

I create the animation for my game.

I create the sounds effects for my game.

i do my own publishing and marketing my way.

I agree with Lumooja about the differences between the hobbyist (creating games for pleasure), the amateur (creating games for pleasure and to make little money if possible), the independant (creating games for pleasure but also to make lot of money in the process).

I’m actually an amateur but i’m working on my skills ;)

Professionals work in big game companies and everything is organized enterprise style.

Indies are kinda between professionals and amateurs, but their goal is to make money also, which makes them different from amateurs.

Amateurs make games out of love and passion and they aim for perfection no matter how long it takes or how much it costs.

Hobbyists are casual game developers and make some smaller games, often unfished, without aiming specifically at perfection or money. Hobbyists often still spent relatively big amounts of money, since that’s what all hobbies do.

And I’m sure coding is very important in games development, but I’m not so sure about being twice as important. Since I’m a producer/art/design guy, I tend to design games that are simpler to program (since I gotta pay for my coders), spent more time designing something fun yet simple to make and whack hard on the art.

I might be wrong, but gamers are probably gonna see the game before they decide whether to give it a shot. And you don’t need that much innovation for gamer to buy the game once they try it, so long the game is polish and fun.

Then again, I don’t have that many title under my belt, but that’s my current approach so far as a Producer/art/designer guy.

By the way, another question should be annual revenues under US 100,000. Or something like that, meaning “I´m not rich, so I´m not a big studio”.