Babycastles Summit 2012

“The Babycastles summit is a three-day series of talks, panels, bands, hands-on workshops and custom video game installations designed by Keita Takahashi, game designer of Japan’s Katamari Damacy. The summit will be hosted by the Museum of Art and Design from August 24th through the 26th as part of the “Fun Fellowship”.

• Website: http://babycastles.com/summit
• Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/507739885910065/

From the ticket site:

“Exploring innovation in interactive media and human interaction, the collective Babycastles will host a weekend of video game controller hacking workshops (one button games, hardware hacking, and arcade cabinet design and construction) at MAD, in collaboration with Keita Takahashi, game designer at Katamari Damacy in Japan.”

These workshops will culminate in a fantastical nightlife playground party involving highly physical arcade games, such as QWOP the Screen and Space Cruiser for the Planetarium, in the museum.  THE FUN will help Babycastles continue to explore innovation and fun with independent arcades.

From the facebook page:

“Inspired by Keita’s kid-friendly play-scape designs and Anna Anthropy’s book, “Rise of the Videogame Zinesters: How Freaks, Normals, Amateurs, Artists, Dreamers, Drop-outs, Queers, Housewives, and People Like You Are Taking Back an Art Form”, …

Babycastles will be building four video game play-scapes designed by Keita Takahashi In association with Kaho Abe, Neil Fridd and Ivan Safrin. They will be on display and available for play throughout the summit at the Museum of Art and Design in 2 Columbus Circle.

♥ CALENDAR ♥

 

♥ FRIDAY, AUGUST 24TH ♥

Open 6PM – 1AM

 

Keynote Talk at 7PM:

♡ Keita Takahashi (Katamari Damacy) & Frank Lantz (NYU Game Center)

 

Party & Performances from 8:30PM – 1AM

♥Theater

♡ Sun Airway

♡ Happy New Year

♡Bermuda Bonnie

 

♥7th Floor Arcade

♡ Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt

♡ Little Ruckus

♡ yoseph y la zilla

♡ Cheeky Dirty LA (DJ Set)

 

♥ SATURDAY, AUGUST 25TH ♥

Open 12PM – 1AM

 

Talks, Workshops, Panels from 1PM – 8PM

♡ Japanese Shmups and the Ascension of a Bodhisattva

1PM – 3PM

Dave Mauro Designer (Anamanaguchi, 8-Bit Alliance)

Kurt Kalata (Hardcore Gaming 101)

Jeremiah Johnson (Nullsleep)

moderated by Joe Salina (Babycastles)

♡ Participatory Games Workshop

♡ How To Babycastles

1PM – 3PM

Dan Alongi (Babycastles)

Kunal Gupta (Babycastles)

Arthur Ward Jr. (Babycastles)

♡ Physical Intimacy in Larps

4PM – 6PM

Lizzie Stark  (Leaving Mundania, Fringe)

♡ Performance Machines in Game Space

4PM – 6PM

Foci + Loci

♡ Nick Fortugno

How Games Tell Stories

3PM – 4PM

♡ The Bill Murray of Video Games

3PM – 4PM

John Teti (Gameological Society)

♡ Designing Games for Public Spaces

6PM – 8PM

Ramiro Corbetta (Hokra)

Mathew Parker (Recurse)

J.R. Blackwell (Shelter in Place)

moderated by Greg Trefry (Come Out and Play)

 

Party and Performances from 8PM – 1AM

♡ The Suzan

♡ Eula

♡ Habibi

♡ Sweet Tooth

♡ Peggy Wang DJ Set (The Pains of Being Pure at Heart)

 

♥ SUNDAY, AUGUST 25TH ♥

Open 12PM – 10PM

 

Talks, Workshops, Panels from 1PM – 6PM

♡ Music in Video Games

Music Culture x Game Dev Culture = ?

1PM – 3PM

Darren Korb (Bastion)

Peter Berkman (Anamanaguchi)

Greg Fox ( Guardian Alien, GDFX  )

Nate Tompkins (Ava Luna)

moderated by Brandon Boyer (Venus Patrol, IGF)

♡ Making Things No One Asked For In The Games Industry

Joe Kowalski (Double Fine)

♡ Kaho Abe

When Conductive Ball is Hadouken: Playful Physical Interfaces

3PM – 4PM

♡ Why Did You Make Your First Game?

4PM – 6PM

Nate Hill (Race Wars)

Joe Ahearn (Clocktower Gallery/Silent Barn)

Michael O’Reilly (I Wanna Be The Guy)

Zach Gage (Spelltower)

moderated by Evan Narcisse (Kotaku)

♡ Doug Wilson

In Conversation: Doug Wilson & Tony Conrad

1PM – 3PM

Tony Conrad

Doug Wilson (Die Gute Fabrik)

moderated by Jesse Fuchs (NYU Game Center)

 

Party and Performances from 5:30PM – 10PM

♡ Radlib

♡ Bubblyfish

♡ Chipocrite

♥ Visuals ♥

♡ No Carrier

♡ Chika

♥ DJ Set ♥

♡ Brian Blackout

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Games:

3D PACMAN  Dr. Clement Shimizu of The Elumenati

DUCKHUNT  Kaho Abe, Ben Johnson & Don Miller

INCREDIBLE SCROLLSHOOTER  Ivan Safrin

MARIO BALL  Kaho Abe & Vikram Subramanian

THROWBALL  Kaho Abe & Joe Mauriello

all mods designed by Keita Takahashi