IndieCade 2010 finalists announced, everyone's nominated for everything

The IndieCade 2010 festival, an annual event held in Culver City, California which celebrates independently-created games, is doing a couple things differently for this year's awards presentation. The first is that all 32 of the finalists are nominated for every award category, such as "Technical Innovation," "World/Story," and the slightly more obscure "Sublime Experience." Check out the full list of categories and their lengthy list of contenders just past the jump.

Oh, the second difference for this year's show? It's going to be hosted by LeVar Burton. In short, it's shaping up to be the best awards show ever.

Categories

• Jury Award

• Aesthetics

• Fun/Compelling (presented by Shacknews.com)

• Gameplay Innovation (presented by BBC Worldwide)

• Technical Innovation

• World/Story

• Vanguard (presented by G4tv.com)

• Sublime Experience

• Wildcard

• Documentary

• Sound

• The IndieCade 2010 Honorary Trailblazer Award for Lifetime Achievement

Nominees

• 1066 - The game (Preloaded / Channel 4, United Kingdom)

• A Slow Year (Ian Bogost, USA)

• Auditorium (Cipher Prime, USA)

• B.U.T.T.O.N. (Brutally Unfair Tactics Totally OK Now) (Copenhagen Game Collective, Denmark)

• BIT.TRIP RUNNER (Gaijin Games, USA)

• Blue Lacuna (Aaron Reed, USA)

• Cargo Delivery (Cat in the Sky, Brazil)

• Castle Vox (Sillysoft, Canada)

• Continuity (Ragtime Games, Sweden)

• Creaky Old Memory (DADIU, Denmark)

• Every Day The Same Dream (Molleindustria, Italy)

• Faraway (Steph Thirion, USA)

• FATALE (Tale of Tales, Belgium)

• feelforit (Chris DeLeon, USA)

• Fractal (Cipher Prime, USA)

• Gentleman of the South Sandwiche Islands (Taylor & Gray, USA)

• Groping in the Dark (Team Arex, South Korea)

• Humans vs. Zombies (Gnarwhal Studios, USA)

• LIMBO (Playdead, Denmark)

• Miegakure (Marc ten Bosch, USA)

• Monsters (Probably) Stole My Princess! (Mediatonic, United Kingdom)

• Recurse (Matt Parker, USA)

• Retro/Grade (24 Caret Games, USA)

• Sixteen Tons (Nathalie Pozzi and Eric Zimmerman, USA)

• Socks, Inc. (Jim Babb/Data Played, USA)

• Solace (One Man Down, USA)

• Spirits (Spaces of Play, Germany)

• Tic-Tac-Totum (Jesse Fuchs, USA)

• The Cat And The Coup (Peter Brinson, USA)

• The Games of Nonchalance (Nonchalance, USA)

• TRAUMA (Krystian Majewski, Germany)

• VVVVVV (Terry Cavanagh, Ireland)