It’s E3 2011 time folks and IndieCade has a great lineup they can’t wait to show you (in booth 4052 in North Hall, in case you are attending). This year IndieCade is showcasing 16 new games and two booth games.

IndieCade showcases independent games by many different developers, they are mostly free to play games that you can download (a couple are installations, meaning they can only be played there, in person).

GamaSutra reports that indie game developers are not happy with their new classification. Indie games no longer appear in the “Games” of the Xbox Live Marketplace. Rather, they appear in the “Specialty” section along with avatar items and the Microsoft Game Room.

LeVar Burton, former host of the children’s series Reading Rainbow and of course, Star Trek: the Next Generation‘s Geordi La Forge, is scheduled to host Indiecadie 2010′s awards ceremony and reception.

A little off to the side of the West Hall, near the Moby Dick-sized Sony booth, housed the Indiecade booth. Indiecade is short for the International Festival of Independent Games, a three-day festival that – you guessed it – showcases independent games. At E3, Festival Director Sam Roberts showed Gamertell a handful of games that were submitted to Indiecade…

PlayDetective: HeartBreakers, a casual detective game from independent publisher Kayo Games, is now available for Macs. The successful private investigator simulation has been adapted to run on Macs with OS X 10.4 or later. If you think you’re good at uncovering people’s secrets, or always wanted to be a spy, then the free trial may be worth investigating…

Ready for a dose of business-related reality to go with your game announcements and games-culture goodness? Then head right over to Dawdle CEO Sachin Agarwal’s brilliant GameDaily piece, in which he argues the need for a place for indie developers to sell their wares to publishers, much like the Sundance film festival.

Pixelpickle Games is working on a side-scrolling action game called Lylian, which takes players through the imagination of the title character. The incredibly stylish game is still in development, but the initial screen shots are enough to get people interested. Lylian will be Pixelpickle’s first title, and should be finished before the end of 2008.

Lylian is a young girl with some mental issues – and these issues cause her to misinterpret what she sees and hears. Her imagination is incredibly vivid and, in the finished game, players will be able to control how Lylian’s imagination changes her view of the world. The full version of the game will have both a story mode and an optional co-op mode.

Celebrating and honoring the Indie spirit, Indiecade: The International Festival of Independent Games is bringing 19 independently developed games to an invite-only event at E3 2007. This even will take place July 11 through July 13, 2007, and another one is planned for October 2007 in the UK. The goal is to shake the very foundations of the gaming industry with revolutionary and innovative ideas. Featuring individual creators, teams, independently owned studios and even universities and their students, Indiecade is showcasing 11 playable games and 8 additional games on a video loop.

Click through for more and links to all 19 games…

Here’s another great video from March’s Independent Games Festival. Dave Grossman and Kevin Bruner of Telltale Games (the creative force behind the acclaimed Sam and Max series) talk shop in this half-hour lecture on independent episodic game design. It’s a great insight into two progressive minds in independent video-game design.

Grossman begins the presentation by defining episodic gaming and laying out a business plan for economic success in episodic gaming. The basic model apes what we would recognize as…