The Independent Games Festival has announced its full lineup of main competition titles for the 2011 prizes. Some games are extremely familiar and we’ve been talking about them for months while a few slide in under the radar, completely unexpected.

So without further ado, here’s the full list of nominees:

Seumas McNally Grand Prize

• Amnesia: The Dark Descent
  
• SpyParty
  
• Desktop Dungeons
  
• Minecraft
  
• Nidhogg

Honorable Mention: Neptune’s Pride, Super Crate Box, Receatter: An Item Shop’s Tale, BIT.TRIP Runner and Retro City Rampage

Excellence in Visual Art

• Bastion
  
• Confetti Carnival
  
• Cave Story (2010 Edition)
  
• Bit.Trip Runner
  
• Hohokum

Honorable Mention: Retro City Rampage, Cobalt, Faraway, Helsing’s Fire, Flotilla

Technical Excellence

• Minecraft
  
• Confetti Carnival
  
• Amnesia: The Dark Descent
  
• Neverdaunt: 8Bit
  
• Miegakure

Honorable Mention: Cobalt, Achron, Hazard: The Journey of Life, Overgrowth, Swimming Under Clouds

Excellence in Design

• Desktop Dungeons
  
• Super Crate Box
  
• Nidhogg
  
• Faraway
  
• Minecraft

Honorable Mention: Helsing’s Fire, Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale, Flotilla, Bo, Brutally Unfair Tactics Totally Okay Now (B.U.T.T.O.N.)

Excellence in Audio

• Bastion
  
• Retro City Rampage
  
• Amnesia: The Dark Descent
  
• Bit.Trip Beat
  
• Cobalt

Honorable Mention: Bit.Trip Runner, Cave Story (2010 Edition), Jamestown, NightSky, Planck

Best Mobile Game

• Shot Shot Shoot
  
• Colorblind
  
• Helsing’s Fire
  
• Solipskier
  
• Halcyon

Honorable Mention: Flick Kick Football, Shibuya, Spirits, Tentacles, Trainyard

Nuovo Award

• Bohm
• A House in California
• Nidhogg
• Dinner Date
• Loop Raccord
• The Cat and the Coup
• B.U.T.T.O.N.
• Hazard: The Journey of Life

A few interesting things to note. Two different BIT.TRIP games are up for awards and Miegakure has once again received a nomination. And three of the nominated games were on our Best of 2010 list as well, including Amnesia, Minecraft and Super Crate Box. The honorable mention in the Mobile Category Shibuya also made our list.