And here are the finalists for IndieCade 2012, an event for indie game lovers

Botanicula screenshot

IndieCade has announced the finalists for its IndieCade 2012 event Saturday – Sunday, Oct. 6 – 7, 2012, in Culver City, CA. There are 36 indie game finalists chosen out of a total of 500 submitted. The developers come from all over including Australia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Singapore, Sweden, the U.K. and the United States. Will these games be the next Braid and Limbo (both games being featured at the previous IndieCade event)?

A Closed World – MIT Gambit Game Lab
Analogue: A Hate Story – Christine Love
Armada D6 – Eric Zimmerman and John Sharp
Beat Sneak Bandit - Simogo
Blindside - Aaron Rasmussen & Michael T. Astolfi
Bloop – Rusty Moyhe
Botanicula – Amanita Designs
Cart Life – Richard Hofmeier
Chroma Shuffle – Sifteo
Contre Jour – Maksym Hryniv
Dreams of Your Life – Alex Fleetwood
Dyad – RSBLSB
Find Me A Good One – Andy Wallace
FTL: Faster Than Light – Subset Games
Gorogoa – Jason Roberts
Guacamelee – Drinkbox Studios
Hidden in Plain Sight – Adam Spragg
Hit Me! – Kaho Abe
Hokra – Ramiro Corbetta
Interference – Nathalie Pozzi and Eric Zimmerman
International Racing Squirrels - Playniac
Open Source – Super Soul
POP: Methodology – Robert Lach
Prom Week – Expressive Intelligence Studio
Qasir Al Wasat – Aduge Studio
REality Ends Here – Jeff Watson and Simon Wiscombe, USC Game Innovation Lab
Renga – wallFour
Splice – Cipher Prime
Stacatto – NYU Game Center
Super Space – Digipen Singapore
Tengami – Nyamyam
The Stanley Parable – Davey Wreden
Unmanned – Molleindustria
Vornheim – Zak S.
Wooden Sen’Sey – Upper Byte
yamove – Katherine Isbister

The finalist games will be held at the fire station at the IndieCade Village in Downtown Culver City. You can get wristbands for this activity for free, just head to registration located on Main Street and Culver Boulevard in the downtown city plaza. The Big Games are also free activities.

Saturday, Oct. 6, is $15 in advance at Brown Paper Tickets or $20 on-site. The expanded access pass allows hands on gameplay at the fire station, participation in the live-action big games, Night Games, access to panels, workshops, entertainment and a vote in the audience award.

Individuals interested in learning about the game development process can attend IndieCade’s Game U, a special conference that takes place on Sunday, Oct. 7, which will cover an introduction to game development tools, processes, roles and opportunities to meet working professionals in the game industry.