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2012 IndieCade Finalists Announced

by Kimberley Wallace on August 22, 2012 at 05:53 PM

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500 submissions later, the finalists have been revealed for this year’s IndieCade. The developers will be on hand to showcase these games at IndieCade on Oct. 6-7th in Culver City, CA. For more information, check out the IndieCade website.

The following games made the cut:

• 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 and 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

• Staccato- 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

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Filed under: News, indiecade 2012

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by Aaron Quixote Wednesday, August 22, 2012 at 06:40 PM

Guacamelee is one of the best game titles I've heard in years. I want to buy it on name alone. Makes me think of a food fight.
by The guy who is meh Wednesday, August 22, 2012 at 06:47 PM

Well those sure are video games.
by Thomas Wednesday, August 22, 2012 at 07:16 PM

I never frickin win! EVER! MAN! Sighhhhhhhh.... What, just because, I DIDN'T ENTER THIS STUPID CONTEST, OR EVEN MAKE A GAME, MEANS I DON'T LIKE TO WIN STUFF?!?!

I hate you contest people. I'm not gonna get over this for at least seven seconds or so.
by freezeimacop690 Wednesday, August 22, 2012 at 07:24 PM

To me, indie games seem to need an acquired taste. For one, the names are almost terribly vague and remind of me crappy mobile games (outside of Super Meat Boy and Fez). For another, they're almost always puzzle games. How many indie puzzle games does the world really need? Third, they're visuals are almost never interesting. They usually seem unpolished and either make me want to puke from all the colors in my face, or turn off the lights so I can see all the black.
by Warrior Wednesday, August 22, 2012 at 07:31 PM

Whoa!!!! This is legit.
by Zachary Pligge Thursday, August 23, 2012 at 08:00 AM

Awesome! Good luck to all the indie game developers!
by musicalham Friday, August 24, 2012 at 09:09 PM

Indiecade sounds like a terrible name, but I can't think of a better one so there you go.
by Flonne space detective Saturday, August 25, 2012 at 06:58 AM

huh