Indiecade Festival Names 36 Finalists For October Show

The organizers of the fifth annual Indiecade Festival have chosen 36 finalists from nearly 450 indie game submissions to be playable on the event's GameWalk October 8 and 9 in Culver City, CA. The chosen titles range from professional projects like Gaijin Games' Bit.Trip Flux to more amateur efforts like Sissy's Magical Ponycorn Adventure, a game designed by Untold Entertainment founder Ryan Creighton's five-year-old daughter at the annual TOJam festival. Other prominent entrants include Superbrothers' iOS exploration title Sword & Sworcery EP, Demruth's surreal first-person puzzler Anitchamber, Polytron Corp.'s 2D/3D hybrid platformer Fez and fast-paced Rogue-like Desktop Dungeons. All 36 finalists will be up for prizes at a Red Carpet Awards ceremony to be held Thursday, October 6. Last year's IndieCade Festival saw 32 finalists, with prize winners including Terry Cavanaugh's gravity-defying platform title VVVVVV and "documentary game" The Cat and the Coup. The 2011 finalists are listed below, and a full listing with detailed descriptions of each title is available at the IndieCade web site. Antichamber—Demruth Application Crunch—Collegeology Games, The Game Innovation Lab At a Distance—Terry Cavanagh BasketBelle—Michael Molinari Bistro Boulevard—Fugazo Inc. BIT.TRIP FLUX—Gaijin Games Black Bottom Parade—SCAD Deepak Fights Robots—Tom Sennett Desktop Dungeons—QCF Design FEZ—Polytron Corp. Gamestar Mechanic—E-Line Media Geobook—levitylab Halcyon—stfj Hero Generations—Heart Shaped Games Hohokum—Honeyslug and Richard Hogg Improviso—GAMBIT Johann Sebastian Joust—Douglas Wilson and Friends Kiss Controller—Georgia Tech Loop Raccord—Nicolai Troshinsky Ordnungswissenschaft—Till Wittwer, Marek Plichta and Jakob Penca Papa Sangre—Somethin’ Else PewPewPewPewPewPewPewPewPew—Incredible Ape Play Kalei—Load Complete Proteus—Ed Key Sissy's Magical Ponycorn Adventure—Untold Entertainment Skulls of the Shogun—Haunted Temple Studios Solar 2—Murudai StarDrone—Beatshapers, TastyPlay Super Hypercube—Kokoromi Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP—Superbrothers, Capybara Games, Jim Guthrie The Bridge—Case Western The Depths to Which I Sink—Bigpants The Dream Machine—Cockroach Inc. The Swapper—Facepalm Games The Witch—Elizabeth Swensen Way—Coco & Co (Carnegie Mellon)