Babycastles – Hardcore Feelings

By: Derek Yu

On: August 5th, 2010

Babycastles professes to be New York’s first independent games arcade, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard of another one anywhere.

As a new function of a legendary all-ages venue for Brooklyn music and other local diy-culture, Babycastles is a wall of six lovingly decorated arcade cabinets that offers a physical place to play games made by amateur and independent game developers. The arcade is open four or five nights a week, during every show at the Silent Barn. The venue throws an opening party every few weeks for a new collection of arcade games, with the game developers present, music, drinks, and plenty of opportunity to get together and love games.

Tonight at 8m EST, Matthew “fort90” Hawkins is curating a selection of indie games, including Rescue the Beagles and two games from last year’s Game Over Continue show at Giant Robot San Francisco (I worked on Calvin and Hellen’s Bogus Journey). Also, because of the “specialized hardware” involved, Phil Fish will also be presenting Polytron’s Super Hypercube for this one night only. If you’re in the area, check it out for me!