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

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

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• 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

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