For any of your readers in the NYC area on New Year's Eve,

I thought I'd let you know about this Live Action Role Playing Game Party we're having down the street from the ball drop, at Babycastles Arcade.

It centers around a game designed by Nicholas Fortugno (GameLab, Diner Dash, The Come Out & Play Festival), in collaboration with myself from Babycastles & Joseph Ahearn from Showpaper.

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The game involves tribes of Alligators, Snakes, Zebras, Foxes, & Black Labradors, closely guarding a secret nefarious or benevolent plan for the year of 2011. To play the game, the player can visit a Game Master, who divinates an animal identity & secret plan for the player in exchange for his or her (anonymous) personal secret plan for 2011. The game play involves a mix of predator-prey relationships, espionage, animal role playing, and themed cooperative dance-offs in collaboration with bands & djs performing that night ( including GDFX, who composes indie game soundtracks especially for Mark Essen ).

If anyone wins the entire game, which is tough, I have a few copies of We Love Katamari signed by Keita Takahashi to give away!

The event happens at our indie games arcade @ 217 East 42nd Street, right next to Grand Central, from 10pm - 6am. People can hop in the game anytime.

The arcade cabinets are also playable throughout the night, featuring a lineup of past award-winners curated by IndieCade, including Recurse, VVVVVV, and Psychosomium.

RSVP & Details are available here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=181070111904757

Kunal / Babycastles

http://babycastles.com