Babycastles Academy is the education arm of Babycastles. Join us on Sunday afternoons at 3pm for workshops and jam sessions. Learn new skills. Make new friends.

Dwarf Fortress (officially called Slaves to Armok: God of Blood Chapter II: Dwarf Fortress) has been under active development since 2002, and first released as alpha software in 2006. The game was selected by the Museum of Modern Art to join its collection in 2012. In this open-ended ASCII tile-based top-down roguelike videogame the player attempts to control a colony of dwarves through the rise and fall of civilizations. The game is famous for its generated emergent gameplay and mechanics made possible due to the simplicity of its tile graphics. The entire gameworld and its history is generated fresh each time the game is played. Play can be brutal and has been described as 'the world's most difficult video game' because of the sheer number of things to learn to be able to start playing.

In this workshop, you'll learn how to get started with the "Lazy Newb Pack," a starter pack for jumping into the game and getting going. You'll learn how to build empires, forge weapons and curiousities, and slay some goblins. So get your ale, don't put two cats in a room, and remember above all else, "Losing is fun."

This workshop will be taught by Crezno!

Image source originally by Rodolphe Courtier. CC BY SA

*This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council.