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IndieCade: International Festival Finalists #21-26
All week, Joystiq will be revealing the 25 finalists for the IndieCade: International Festival of Independent Games, set to take place October 10 through 17 in Bellevue, Washington. The winners will be announced on October 11.The Graveyard (website)The casual gamer might get bogged down by the protagonist's walking speed, but the cheerful and macabre song at the end more than makes up for it. And should you buy the full game -- there's a twist.%Gallery-32813% Psst ... there's more after the break.
IndieCade: International Festival Finalists #16-20
All week, Joystiq will be revealing the 25 finalists for the IndieCade: International Festival of Independent Games, set to take place October 10 through 17 in Bellevue, Washington. The winners will be announced on October 11.ibb & obb (website)The pictures do not do ibb & obb justice. Without motion, it just looks like a colorful sidescroller in the vein of Yoshi's Island. In motion (as seen in the video above), the game is an inventive co-op platformer that also plays a bit with gravity. The project was made by Richard Boeser as a graduation project for Industrial Design at Delft University of Technology.%Gallery-32692% Psst ... There's more inside.
IndieCade: International Festival Finalists #11-15
All week, Joystiq will be revealing the 25 finalists for the IndieCade: International Festival of Independent Games, set to take place October 10 through 17 in Bellevue, Washington. The winners will be announced on October 11.The Misadventures of P. B. Winterbottom (Website)In terms of paradoxes and other temporal mechanics, Winterbottom makes Braid look like Mario in the future. From what we've seen and played of the game, our heads turn to mush thinking about how to solve these puzzles. Best of all, it's all in the name of eating pie. Take that, cake lovers.%Gallery-32537% Psst ... there's more after the break.
IndieCade: International Festival Finalists #6-10
All week, Joystiq will be revealing the 25 finalists for the IndieCade: International Festival of Independent Games, set to take place October 10 through 17 in Bellevue, Washington. The winners will be announced on October 11.MachinariumWe would hope it'd be enough to say it's from the creators of Samorost, but if we have to go on, Machinarium takes the classic point-and-click adventure game model and applies it to a world with more character than the 1,000 copies of Scrapland sitting in American McGee's garage waiting to be loved.%Gallery-32464%
IndieCade: International Festival Finalists #1-5
All week, Joystiq will be revealing the 26 finalists for the IndieCade: International Festival of Independent Games, set to take place October 10 through 17 in Bellevue, Washington. The winners will be announced on October 11. And Yet it Moves This Austrian-born title has a unique, papercraft-inspired art style and a simple trick (rotate the camera) that serves as the focus of a maddening, yet rewarding, puzzle platformer. A demo is available at the game's website for both Windows and Mac.%Gallery-32379%
IndieCade 2008 festival set for Oct 10-17 in Bellevue, WA
We've talked about the IndieCade before, especially with their large presence at this year's E3 and PAX. All of the events, however, have culminated with the aptly-titled IndieCade: the International Festival of Independent Games, set for October 10 through 17 at Open Satellite in Bellevue, Washington. The festival will show off what it believes are the 26 best independent games that would no doubt make Soulja Boy's head spin. The first two days of the event include industry-specific sessions such as a presentation of thatgamecompany's Flower and the awards ceremony, with the general admission exhibit starting October 13 and running through the end of the week. You looking for a chance to understand what, exactly, is P.B. Winterbottom? How about the two-player Dark Room Sex Game? Tickets are on sale now.
Joystiq hands-on: IndieCade games galore
One of the things we made sure to do at E3 this year was to spend a significant amount of time with the IndieCade folks. Then we sat on that info long enough for some of these games to get picked up, have a successful release, come out with sequels, spawn movies, novels, comic books, become part of the general pop culture bloodstream, and then fade into nostalgia, and for that we apologize. Actually, I'll apologize, I did it.But in all seriousness, a lot of the more fun and innovative stuff we saw at E3 wasn't actually being churned out by big studios and publishers, but being worked on by small groups with tiny budgets and just a love of gaming. Read on to find out all about the IndieCade games that we saw on display, and why you'll want to be playing them now.%Gallery-28162%
