{"id":11513,"date":"2010-08-14T23:32:53","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T21:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mono-1en-2244"},"modified":"2010-08-14T23:32:53","modified_gmt":"2010-08-14T21:32:53","slug":"babycastles-excellent-indie-video-game-space-in-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2010\/08\/14\/babycastles-excellent-indie-video-game-space-in-brooklyn\/","title":{"rendered":"Babycastles: excellent indie video game space in Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAt Babycastles, near the epicenter of the Brooklyn indie music scene, game designers find kindred spirits and eager players.<\/p>\n

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\tFormerly inhibited by the very mechanism that helped indie games grow and thrive \u2014 a globally distributed and diverse Internet community that rarely converges face to face \u2014 a group of devoted, bootstrapping indie gamers are forging an underground home for themselves. In what’s perhaps an unlikely twist, one place it’s happening is near the epicenter of the ultra-hip wildland neighborhoods where the Brooklyn indie music scene makes its home.<\/p>\n

\tOn a city block in Ridgewood, a Queens neighborhood that lies so close to Brooklyn’s edge it feels more like the latter borough’s careless spill-over, sits Silent Barn, a hub within Brooklyn’s DIY music scene. It’s a music venue and art and community space where local bands nightly play alongside a kitchen in a packed room of twentysomethings drinking cheap beer. In Silent Barn’s low-lit basement, a cool refuge from the noise-rich and sweat-slicked music shows that pound the ceiling overhead, there is a small indie arcade called Babycastles (which declares its presence with a yellow neon sign).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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At Babycastles, near the epicenter of the Brooklyn indie music scene, game designers find kindred spirits and eager players. […] Formerly inhibited by the very mechanism that helped indie games grow and thrive \u2014 a globally distributed and diverse Internet community that rarely converges face to face \u2014 a group of devoted, bootstrapping indie gamers … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"koromo_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-blog","koromo-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}