IndieCade Announces Finalists for 2012

IndieCade is almost here! Almost here! Almost here!

IndieCade, the international festival of indepedant games will be opening its doors again in downtown Culver City in just  a few short weeks. (October 4-7th to be precise). Once again it will be sure to be a lively weekend filled with Big Games, Night Games, card games and oh, yes: video games. Plus some talks by some of the biggest names in the indie game development world.

The game devs will be coming from all over the planet: Australia, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Singapore, Sweden, the U.K. and an exotic land known only as the “United States”. Whatever that is.

We saw two of the games that made the cut this year- Hokra and Prom Week- at the IndieCade booth at E3. We have yet to see the game whose title card we’ve used for the image here, but come on! It’s called International Racing Squirrels. How can we resist?

Check out the full list of finalists, carefully plucked by hand from the dangerous jaws of a snapping press release, after the jump.

A Closed World- MIT Gambit Game Lab

Analogue: A Hate Story – Christine Love

Armada D6- Eric Zimmerman and John Sharp

Beat Sneak Bandit- Simogo

Blindside- Aaron Rasmussen & Michael T. Astolfi

Bloop- Rusty Moyhe

Botanicula- Amanita Designs

Cart Life- Richard Hofmeier

Chroma Shuffle- Sifteo

Contre Jour- Maksym Hryniv

Dreams of Your Life – Alex Fleetwood

Dyad- RSBLSB

Find Me A Good One- Andy Wallace

FTL: Faster Than Light- Subset Games

Gorogoa- Jason Roberts

Guacamelee- Drinkbox Studios

Hidden in Plain Sight- Adam Spragg

Hit Me! - Kaho Abe

Hokra- Ramiro Corbetta

Interference –Nathalie Pozzi and Eric Zimmerman

International Racing Squirrels- Playniac

Open Source- Super Soul

POP: Methodology – Robert Lach

Prom Week- Expressive Intelligence Studio

Qasir Al Wasat – Aduge Studio

Reality Ends Here- Jeff Watson and Simon Wiscombe, USC Game Innovation Lab

Renga- wallFour

Splice – Cipher Prime

Stacatto- NYU Game Center

Super Space _____- Digipen Singapore

Tengami- Nyamyam,

The Stanley Parable- Davey Wreden

Unmanned- Molleindustria

Vornheim- Zak S.

Wooden Sen’Sey- Upper Byte

yamove- Katherine Isbister

UPDATE: The original press release attributed the game BlindSide to “Blacktorch Games”. We were contacted by Michael T. Astolfi, via Twitter, and informed that the game should actually be attributed to Aaron Rasmussen & Michael T. Astolfi. After consulting with the link provided by IndieCade as part of the press release (and which has been accessible since on this page was originally posted) we have corrected this mistake.

Do note that the intention- as viewable in the page code- was to list the entire link-contents of the press release in a block quote. However we have been tweaking the site and apparently the block quote look in our CSS has changed in such a way that the contents may be misconstrued as being claimed as original. I’ll have our guy look at that. Apologies for confusion. And for any grammar errors. It’s late and I just got in from a run when I found the tweet request. Now I’m going to go play Darksiders as soon as I deal with some email issues. Don’t we all just love email?