IndieCade 2009 - The Finalists - With Added Links!

Hello, IndieCaders! 

Richard Lemarchand here - I’m a game designer at Naughty Dog in Santa Monica, and I’m also a lover of indie games, an ardent advocate of DIY culture, and a helper-out to the organizers of IndieCade.

You’ll be hearing more from me this week as the festival unfolds and the conference confers - for starters, I’m helping to organize a metric tonne of “Mini-Microtalks” at the IndieCade Opening Party on Thursday night.  Please consider yourselves cordially invited! http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=163187835733&ref=nf

The Mini-Microtalks will be given by the creators of the games in this year’s festival, and are short-format presentations of a kind that you might be familiar with - each speaker gets 12 slides, each of which is displayed for exactly 16 seconds before auto-advancing, giving the speaker exactly three minutes and 12 seconds to say what they gotta say.  We did something similar at GDC this year - it’s going to be great!

Anyway, party invitations aside - thanks to Adam for blogging the list of this year’s finalists!  Coincidentally, I just got done compiling a list of links to the games (or where the games aren’t directly available, links to reviews and videos of them), and wanted to share them with you all - the list is right there, down at the end of this post.

To see videos of the games, please check out Brandon’s amazing round-up over at Offworld!

See you at IndieCade!

Aether - Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel - http://armorgames.com/play/2153/aether
Akrasia - Team Aha! - http://gambit.mit.edu/loadgame/akrasia.php
ClassicNight - Akarolls - http://akarolls.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/classicnight-construction-simulation/
Cogs - Lazy 8 Studios - http://www.lazy8studios.com/download_cogs_now
Closure - Tyler Glaiel and Jon Schubbe - http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/480006
Dear Esther - The Chinese Room - http://www.moddb.com/mods/dear-esther
The Deep Sleep Initiative - ARx - http://www.deepsleepinitiative.com/
Eliss - Steph Thirion - http://www.toucheliss.com/
Everybody Dies - Jim Munroe - http://nomediakings.org/games/everybody_dies_takes_bronze_at_ifcomp.html
Global Conflicts: Latin America - Serious Games Interactive - http://www.globalconflicts.eu/
Gray - Mike Boxleiter and Greg Wohlwend - http://www.intuitiongames.com/gray/
The Maw - Twisted Pixel Games - http://www.mawgame.com/
Mightier - Lucas Pope and Keiko Ishizaka - http://www.ratloop.com/?games/mightier
Minor Battle - Andre Clark - http://minorbattle.com/
Modal Kombat - David Hindman and Evan Drummand - http://www.modalkombat.com/
Moon Stories - Daniel Benmergui - http://www.kongregate.com/games/danielben/i-wish-i-were-the-moon
Nanobots - Erin Robinson - http://www.bigbluecup.com/yabb/index.php?topic=34941.0
Osmos - Hemisphere Games - http://www.hemispheregames.com/osmos/
Papermint - Avaloop - http://www.papermint.com/
The Path - Tale of Tales - http://tale-of-tales.com/ThePath/
Radio Flare - studio radiolaris - http://www.radiolaris.com/radioflare/
Ruben & Lullaby - Erik Loyer - http://opertoon.com/2009/05/ruben-lullaby/
Shadow Physics - Steve Swink and Scott Anderson - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb5DjyoDObA
Sowlar - Odd Man In - https://www.digipen.edu/?id=1170&proj=9588
Spectre - Vaguely Spectacular Team - http://www.spectregame.com/
Train - Brenda Brathwaite - http://mechanicmessage.wordpress.com.
Tuning - Jonatan ‘Cactus’ Soderstrom - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTY494iujdA
You get me - Blast Theory - http://www.blasttheory.co.uk/bt/work_yougetme.html
Zeno Clash - ACE Team Software - http://www.zenoclash.com/

Adam | September 27, 2009

Thanks, Richard!

Frank | September 30, 2009

Nice one! Can’t wait to try them all out :)

sara | December 08, 2009

I am so glad to found this post, as i was looking the information about the Finalists. IndieCade is the only event of its kind in the United States & the only festival of independent games open to the public. I was just trying to spread the word to all of my friends to join us to launch IndieCade 2009!

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Judith | January 11, 2010

I really like it, thanks for the links.

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corwine | January 14, 2010

Congratulations to all the IndieCade 2009 finalists!!

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Brian | January 15, 2010

Some great games there! Obviously, many of us here in England are used to using discount codes to try and pay less for video games, where possible.

Alex | January 27, 2010

The games are simply amazing, no, I think no words can ever explain the greatness of the creation. They are really absolutely marvelous.
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