Videogame industry luminary and legend Tim Schafer will this week receive a lifetime achievement award during this year’s IndieCade Awards ceremony, for acting as a role model to indie gamers and for personifying “the risk-taking, boundary pushing spirit at the heart of the indepedent gaming community.”

The award, officially named the ‘Honorary Trailblazer Award for Lifetime Achievement,’ will be presented to Schafer by friend and game industry colleague Ron Gilbert, who Schafer previously worked with at LucasArts to create Monkey Island, and who now works at Schafer’s San Francisco-based studio, Double Fine Productions.

IndieCade 2010 takes place from October 8th to the 10th in Culver City, California, USA, while the awards ceremony will take place tomorrow night (October 7th).

Even though Tim Schafer is often best known for his decidedly non-indie work on Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle and Grim Fandango, he and his team at Double Fine have been living the indie ‘dream’ for ten years, having produced Psychonauts and Brütal Legend in that time, with four smaller, downloadable titles currently in the works at the studio, one of which is the delightful-looking Costume Quest for Xbox LIVE and PlayStation Network.