IndieCade 2012 finalists line up for judgement, awards on Oct. 4

By Jessica Conditt

IndieCade 2012 kicks off on October 4 in downtown Culver City, California, celebrating indie games and developers for four days across multiple venues. The Red Carpet Awards, held on the evening of October 4 and hosted by Felicia Day, honors the coolest, most intriguing games in the indie scene, and often serve as an indicator of future breakout hits: Past winners include Fez, Limbo, Braid, Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP and Johann Sebastian Joust.

IndieCade has announced the 36 finalists for the 2012 Red Carpet Awards, including Analogue: A Hate Story, Bontanicula, Dyad, Guacamelee, The Stanley Parable, Splice and more. Whether you want to see who's up for the big prizes, or just want a guide of prominent indie games to check out, find the complete list of IndieCade 2012 finalists below.

  • A Closed World
  • Analogue: A Hate Story
  • Armada d6
  • Beat Sneak Bandit
  • BlindSide
  • Bloop
  • Botanicula
  • Cart Life
  • Chroma Shuffle
  • Contre Jour
  • Dreams of Your Life
  • Dyad
  • Find Me A Good One
  • FTL: Faster Than Light
  • Gorogoa
  • Guacamelee!
  • Hidden in Plain Sight
  • Hit Me!
  • Hokra
  • INTERFERENCE
  • International Racing Squirrels
  • Open Source
  • POP: Methodology Experiment One
  • Prom Week
  • Qasir al-Wasat: A Night in-Between
  • Reality Ends Here
  • Renga
  • Splice
  • Staccato
  • Super Space ____
  • Tengami
  • The Stanley Parable
  • Unmanned
  • Vornheim
  • Wooden Sen'SeY
  • yamove

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