We’re well into September, and that means the kids are back in school, the nights are getting longer — and IndieCade is gearing up for its annual October games festival in California.
The event is a notable opportunity for indie game makers to celebrate their work, and this week IndieCade published a list of 33 games nominated for awards at this year’s event, which will take place in Los Angeles October 14th through 16th.
Shortly thereafter, the organization will host its inaugural European event, IndieCade Paris, in November.
IndieCade has grown from humble beginnings in 2005 to become a big event for indie game developers, and to have your game nominated for an award is significant — in years past, the list of IndieCade finalists has included games like Sam Barlow’s Her Story, Loveshack’s Framed and The Tiniest Shark’s Redshirt.
We’ve taken the liberty of republishing a bulleted rundown of this year’s IndieCade finalists below:
#Feminism by #Feminism Collective
1979 REVOLUTION: Black Friday by iNK Stories
Antariksha Sanchar : Episode Zero by Quicksand GamesLab
ARMAGAD (also Tetrageddon Games) by alienmelon
Bad News by Expressive Intelligence Studio
Beautiful Corner by Martzi Campos
Beglitched by Hexecutable
Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor by Sundae Month
Elsinore by Golden Glitch Studios
Fracture | AutomaTiles by Jonathan Bobrow
FRKN WKND by Aquma
Hamlet-Mobile by Capital W
Infinit-O by Corazon Del Sol
Keeping The Candles Lit by Shoshana Kessock
Killbox by Biome Collective
Killing Time at Lightspeed by Gritfish
Lieve Oma by Florian Veltman
OCTOBO by Thinker-Tinker
Open Sorcery by Abigail Corfman
Reigns by Nerial
Replica by Somi (Individual)
RIOT – Civil Unrest by IV Productions / Leonard Menchiari
Séance by Twocan Consortium
Shackle by Shackle Dev
SoundStage by Logan Olson
Stone Story by Gabriel Santos
The Order of the Oven Mitt by Inquisiment
This is My Memory of First Heartbreak, Which I Can’t Quite Piece Back Together by Jenny Goldstick, Owen Roberts & Stephen Betts
Threadsteading by Disney Research Pittsburgh
ULTRAWORLD EXODUS by James Beech
VR Spa by Portland Immersive Media Group
Wheels of Aurelia by Santa Ragione
You Must be 18 or Older to Enter by Seemingly Pointless