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IndieCade 2012 winners get their crowns, IndieCade East in 2013
This year's great indie battle has come to an end with the victors crowned. The 2012 IndieCade winners were selected by a band of merry developers, including Kellee Santiago, co-founder of Journey studio thatgamecompany, Braid developer Jonathan Blow, and J. Stewart Burns, producer and writer for The Simpsons and Futurama.Winners include Molleindustria's Unmanned, which took home the Grand Jury Award, Jason Roberts' Gorogoa for visuals, RSBLSB's Dyad for audio and Amanita Design's Botanicula for story / world design. Davey Wreden's The Stanley Parable snagged the special recognition award, the audience choice went to Ramiro Corbetta's Hokra, and developers' choice to wallFour's Renga.IndieCade is looking to expand its reach, launching the first annual IndieCade East on Saturday and Sunday, February 16 - 17, 2013, in New York City's Museum of the Moving Image. IndieCade East will feature some of the IndieCade 2012 finalists, winners and official selections, and will host a game jam hosted by PlayStation Mobile.Check out the complete list of IndieCade winners below.
IndieCade 2012 lineup: Papo & Yo, Hawken, Cards Against Humanity
IndieCade 2012 runs October 4 - 7 in Los Angeles with a host of today's most brilliant independent games and gimmicks. IndieCade selects a slew of intriguing indies each year, and it just revealed this year's list, which includes some higher-profile titles such as Dys4ia, Hotline Miami, Papo & Yo, Hawken, Puzzlejuice and Super Hexagon, alongside under-the-radar rarities and even physical-world games, such as Cards Against Humanity and Field Frogger.Official Selections will be viewable and playable at IndieCade, along with the Nominees, which are up for awards at the Red Carpet ceremony on October 4.Below find a complete list of the IndieCade 2012 Official Selections, supplementing our earlier lineup of the Nominees.
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.
Felicia Day to host the 2012 IndieCade Red Carpet Awards Ceremony
Felicia Day has been enlisted by the folks at Creative Media Collaborative to host the 2012 IndieCade Red Carpet Awards Ceremony, where exemplary and innovating flooring/carpeting solutions are honored for their excellence in ... hold on a second, we may not have this entirely right.Ah! Yes, video games, of course. The IndieCade Red Carpet Awards Ceremony honors noteworthy achievements in the field of indie gaming over the course of the previous year – past winners include Fez and Limbo, for example. This year's ceremony takes place on October 4, kicks off the 2012 IndieCade Conference and Festival proper, and will of course be hosted by Felicia Day.Best known for creating The Guild and co-starring in Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Day is just about as endeared to the global gaming/nerd community as a person can get. She was even on an episode of House once.
IndieCade early bird submission fee deadline is February 29
The early submission deadline for IndieCade ends on the final day this month, February 29, with prices jumping from $50 to $75 until the standard submission deadline ends May 1. We know procrastination is an art form, but that $25 could be spent on more essential items like ramen.IndieCade got in contact with us to help spread the word that the only major disqualification factor for a game is if it's funded by a major publisher. Beyond that, the group accepts a variety of games, which are detailed after the break.IndieCade's track record, with past winners including Limbo, VVVVVV, Superbrothers' Sword and Sworcery EP and Fez, is a great springboard for mass attention. If you're a developer or team that thinks it's got the next big indie game, take the chance and submit an application.
IndieCade's 2012 'Festival of Independent Games' accepting submissions
Indie devs take note, submissions for IndieCade's 2012 "Festival of Independent Games" are now open on the event's official website.IndieCade's track record is stellar, giving budding designers and developers the exposure their hard work deserves and the money their growing debt so richly desires. Past winners include darlings like Limbo, VVVVVV, and Superbrothers' Sword and Sworcery EP. Of course, bills only get paid if the games launch -- unlike Fez, which by our heart's count has been in development for the last seven hundred years.Teams that submit a game will receive a main festival pass and an invitation to a day-long networking and workshop event. Games selected are set to be featured during the annual IndieCade Festival from October 4 through October 7.
