Babycastles’ Raw Beauty

Between mak­ing the Games For Change Fes­ti­val hap­pen in June and sub­se­quent inter­na­tional adven­tures, my blog fell by the way­side. I’ve got a list of at least 15 pos­si­ble posts to write. Daunt­ing! So let’s get started the easy way and post some video.

Here is raw footage I shot at two recent Baby­cas­tles events. Baby­cas­tles is an inde­pen­dent videogame arcade pro­duc­tion group and gen­eral per­vayor of inde­pen­dent game cul­ture. As the Baby­cas­tles Archivist and Doc­u­men­tar­ian, cap­tur­ing video of events is only a small part of my respon­si­bil­i­ties, but it’s def­i­nitely the most fun part. Baby­cas­tles enthu­si­asts far and wide are enjoy­ing the unedited takes of events.

QWOP THE SCREEN ⋰ Highly Phys­i­cal Videogames

A col­lec­tion of highly phys­i­cal videogame instal­la­tions. Games that delib­er­ately make it awk­ward to see the screen, as well as games that get rid of screens entirely. This was the funnest Baby­cas­tles open­ing I remem­ber. Curated by Doug Wil­son, Ben­nett Foddy, and Matt Parker. Octo­ber 7th, 2011 at 285 Kent Ave.

BABYCASTLES 285 KENT CLOSING PARTY

The party cel­e­brates the the arcade’s six-month run in Williams­burg on Novem­ber 4, 2011. Baby­cas­tles is not over. It’s just trans­form­ing. The night fea­tured per­for­mances by Inspec­tah Deck and Colt Seavers of the Wu Tang Clan, Ava Luna and DJ Dog Dick. A tour­na­ment of J.S. Joust was played. The win­ner took home a copy of Kata­mari Damacy signed by Keita Taka­hashi. Games pro­duced by the Parsons/Babycastles Game Jam were avail­able to play. Minori­ties could sign up as bone mar­row donors as part of the “Amit Gupta Needs You” campaign.