http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail203.html
And as the makers of indie animation and video games, I think the Homestar guys are qualified to explain "indie".
Not to mention that "indie" is the same kind of bullshit as "app".
At the end of your life, when you're living through the 10 minutes that you saved up by discarding those extra syllables, you'll realize that it hasn't made up for sounding like an idiot.*
So these, uh... Games-made-by-small-teams-not-associated-with-a-large-studio...
What was I talking about?
Uh, but my point is, open source and homebrew are cooler principles, and cooler words, than indie.
Here's the website for my favorite GMBSTNAWALS:
http://blog.wolfire.com/
It's about furries, but the graphics might make up for that. Doubt it will run on the Pandora. They are aiming for Linux (and OS X and Windows, of course), but their engine looks pretty complex, it might not translate to GLES cheap enough for them, and they'd probably have to scale back on the triangle count and texture resolution.
*I hope this doesn't get annoy some kind of web app software company I try to apply for... If it does, I hope they understand that I'm more professional in real life.