Yeah and not only students there are a lot of indie guys !

Specialy making Iphone games :
less intensive work to have textures and models working in a game (no AAA quality that requires a good team)
Just check Unity showcase Forums


Yeah T3D , personnaly i think really for people making something good looking and realistic, that have a talented texturer, modeler, animator, particle and special effects coder.


But there are special cases, where people lonewolf or little teams could make little games with good graphics effects and next gen stuff :
Trine game for example !