Not your father’s RPG.

“[A] riff on the way that property-rights are coming to games, and on the bizarre spectacle of sweat-shops in which children are paid to play the game all day in order to generate eBay-able game-wealth. When I was a kid, there were arcade kings who would play up Gauntlet characters to maximum health and weapons and then sell their games to nearby players for a dollar or two — netting them about $0.02 an hour — but this is a very different proposition indeed.” -Cory Doctorow (Boing Boing editor, Little Brother)

Originally published in the Creative Commons comic Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now by IDW Publishing, Anda’s Game is remixed by Robot Comics to create a new version specifically designed for mobile devices.

• Title: Anda’s Game
• Credits: Original version: Cory Doctorow (story), Dara Naraghi (adapted by), Esteve Polls (art), Robert Studio (colorist), Neil Uyetake (letterer), Ted Adams (editor), Justin Eisinger (collection edited by), Neil Uyetake (collection designed by). Remix: Yael Duckwen (adapted by), Hermes Pique (editor).
• Publisher: IDW Publishing
• Price: Free
• License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States
• Screens: 101

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Anda’s Game is available for download on the following platforms:

iPhone/iPod touch

Click on the button below to open Anda’s Game on the iTunes App Store. Requires iTunes.

Android

Anda’s Game is available for free in the Android Market. Scan the QR code below with your Android to receive its url.

Alternatively, search “Anda’s Game” on the Market.

Nintendo DSi

Learn more about the Nintendo DSi version of Anda’s Game.

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Original story

Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now

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Part 2 of the 2 of the first Creative Commons comic released for the Nintendo DSi.

“[A] riff on the way that property-rights are coming to games, and on the bizarre spectacle of sweat-shops in which children are paid to play the game all day in order to generate eBay-able game-wealth. When I was a kid, there were arcade kings who would play up Gauntlet characters to maximum health and weapons and then sell their games to nearby players for a dollar or two — netting them about $0.02 an hour — but this is a very different proposition indeed.” -Cory Doctorow (Boing Boing editor, Little Brother) Originally published in the Creative Commons comic Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now by IDW Publishing, Anda’s Game is remixed by Robot Comics to create a new version specifically designed for Nintendo DSi.

• Title: Anda’s Game #2 of 2
• Credits: Original version: Cory Doctorow (story), Dara Naraghi (adapted by), Esteve Polls (art), Robert Studio (colorist), Neil Uyetake (letterer), Ted Adams (editor), Justin Eisinger (collection edited by), Neil Uyetake (collection designed by). Remix: Yael Duckwen (adapted by), Hermes Pique (editor).
• Publisher: IDW Publishing
• Price: Free
• License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States
• Screens: 125

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Anda’s Game #2 is available for download on the following platforms:

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Original story

Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now

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Robot Comics is proud to announce the launch of DSComics.com, a comics site for Nintendo DSi which includes the first comics ever produced for this platform.

Through DSComics.com, Nintendo DSi users will we able to read comics specifically designed and formatted for this console. The service is completely free and doesn’t require to download or install third-party components. Users just need to open the Nintendo DSi Browser and navigate to dscomics.com to start reading comics.

The launch includes 3 free titles (Thunder Road, Anda’s Game and Misery Depot), of which two are Creative Commons licensed, that in this case allows fans to share and remix the comics at their leisure.

“Our goal is proximity in the broadest sense of the word. We don’t want anything -distribution, hardware, even money and copyright-, to get in the way between comics and their potential readers. By releasing free comics for popular hand-helds we are reaching a brand new audience that was largely ignored by the comics industry.”, states Hermes Pique, Robot Comics’s Director.

Below is a rundown of the first titles that are already available in DSComics.com.

Thunder Road #1

A high-action, wide-sweeping episodic pulp adventure by writer Sean Demory and illustrator Steven Sanders (Five Fists of Science).

The bomb-ravaged American Heartland has been largely left out of the equation, falling prey to unchecked corporate land-barons and motorcycle-riding, nazidope-smoking MEF veterans ravaging the wastes. Some small towns have become fortresses, while others have followed the Soviet model and taken to the road, with clans roaming from one corp-compound to the next. Route 66, Interstate 70 and a dozen other superhighways have become the new frontier, where fortunes can be made with grit, cunning and a steady hand. Welcome to the Thunder Road.

Anda’s Game #1

An adaptation by Dara Naraghi (Terminator Salvation movie prequel) and Esteve Polls (Mega-City Noir) of the short story by Cory Doctorow (Boing Boing editor, Little Brother).

“[A] riff on the way that property-rights are coming to games, and on the bizarre spectacle of sweat-shops in which children are paid to play the game all day in order to generate eBay-able game-wealth. When I was a kid, there were arcade kings who would play up Gauntlet characters to maximum health and weapons and then sell their games to nearby players for a dollar or two — netting them about $0.02 an hour — but this is a very different proposition indeed.” -Cory Doctorow

Originally published in the Creative Commons comic Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now by IDW Publishing, Anda’s Game is remixed by Robot Comics to create a new version specifically designed for mobile devices.

Learn more about Anda’s Game.

Misery Depot

A mystery/science fiction one-shot drawn by Juan Romera (Zombie Highway: Directionless) and written by Hermes Pique, intended for mature audiences.

An anomaly causes an elderly mother to awake undressed inside a humid capsule. The voice of her daughter echoes in her memory, the intent of her words forgotten. Was she sharing the completeness of their unity, or hatefully wishing her mother’s demise?

A seemingly infinite corridor of capsules hosts hundreds of persons, calmly sleeping, miserable underneath. Yet, an old man shares the mother’s awareness, and is even certain of the nature of the place: a high-technology concentration camp; the second one for him to escape…

Learn more about Misery Depot.

About Robot Comics

Robot Comics publishes and produces digital comics for hand-helds, such as Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch, Google’s Android mobiles, Nintendo DSi, Amazon Kindle. We offer titles specifically designed and formatted to be read on e-devices.

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Not your father’s RPG. “[A] riff on the way that property-rights are coming to games, and on the bizarre spectacle of sweat-shops in which children are paid to play the game all day in order to generate eBay-able game-wealth. When I was a kid, there were arcade kings who would play up Gauntlet characters to maximum health and weapons and then sell their games to nearby players for a dollar or two — netting them about $0.02 an hour — but this is a very different proposition indeed.” -Cory Doctorow (Boing Boing editor, Little Brother) Originally published in the Creative Commons comic Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now by IDW Publishing, Anda’s Game is remixed by Robot Comics to create a new version specifically designed for Nintendo DSi.

• Title: Anda’s Game #1 of 2
• Credits: Original version: Cory Doctorow (story), Dara Naraghi (adapted by), Esteve Polls (art), Robert Studio (colorist), Neil Uyetake (letterer), Ted Adams (editor), Justin Eisinger (collection edited by), Neil Uyetake (collection designed by). Remix: Yael Duckwen (adapted by), Hermes Pique (editor).
• Publisher: IDW Publishing
• Price: Free
• License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States
• Screens: 88

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Anda’s Game #1 is available for download on the following platforms:

Nintendo DSi

Learn more about the Nintendo DSi version of Anda’s Game #1.

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iPhone/Android version

Original story

Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now

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Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now is the Creative Commons comics adaptation of six short stories by Boing Boing editor and science-fiction writer Cory Doctorow. Originally published by IDW Publishing, Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now was converted from traditional print comic to mobile comic by digital comics publisher Robot Comics. The result are eight Creative Commons mobile comics specifically designed for iPhone, iPod touch and Android devices, some of which are also adapted for Nintendo DSi. Combined, the mobile Futuristic Tales have been downloaded more than 60,000 times.

Title	iPhone & iPod touch	Android Market url	Android Market QR code	Nintendo DSi
Anda’s Game		Open Market		DSComics.com
When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth		Open Market
Craphound		Open Market		Coming soon!
Nimby and the D-Hoppers		Open Market
I, Robot #1		Open Market		Coming soon!
I, Robot #2		Open Market		Coming soon!
After the Siege #1		Open Market		Coming soon!
After the Siege #2		Open Market		Coming soon!

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A young girl grows in a city under siege, where the war for the cure of a zombie outbreak destroys the life she once knew. After the Siege #2, a comic written by James Anthony Kuhoric, drawn by Guiu Vilanova, based on a short story by Cory Doctorow. Originally published as the Creative Commons comic Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now by IDW Publishing, After the Siege is remixed by Robot Comics to create a version specifically designed for iPhone, iPod touch and Android devices.

• Title: After the Siege #2 of 2
• Credits: Original: Cory Doctorow (story), James Anthony Kuhoric (adapted by), Guiu Vilanova (art), German Torres (color), Neil Uyetake (letterer), Tom Waltz (editor), Danny Parsons (cover), Justin Eisinger (collection edited by), Neil Uyetake (collection designed by). Remix: Yael Duckwen (adapted by).
• Publisher: IDW Publishing
• Price: Free
• License: Creative Commons

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After the Siege #2 is available for download on the following platforms:

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Click on the button below to open After the Siege #2 on the iTunes App Store. Requires iTunes.

Android

After the Siege #2 is available for free in the Android Market. Scan the QR code below with your Android to receive its url.

Alternatively, search “After the Siege” on the Market.

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A young girl grows in a city under siege, where the war for the cure of a zombie outbreak destroys the life she once knew. After the Siege #1, a comic written by James Anthony Kuhoric, drawn by Guiu Vilanova, based on a short story by Cory Doctorow. Originally published as the Creative Commons comic Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now by IDW Publishing, After the Siege is remixed by Robot Comics to create a version specifically designed for iPhone, iPod touch and Android devices.

• Title: After the Siege #1 of 2
• Credits: Original: Cory Doctorow (story), James Anthony Kuhoric (adapted by), Guiu Vilanova (art), German Torres (color), Neil Uyetake (letterer), Tom Waltz (editor), Danny Parsons (cover), Justin Eisinger (collection edited by), Neil Uyetake (collection designed by). Remix: Yael Duckwen (adapted by).
• Publisher: IDW Publishing
• Price: Free
• Screens: 70

Preview

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After the Siege #1 is available for download on the following platforms:

iPhone/iPod touch

Click on the button below to open After the Siege #1 on the iTunes App Store. Requires iTunes.

Android

After the Siege #1 is available for free in the Android Market. Scan the QR code below with your Android to receive its url.

Alternatively, search “After the Siege” on the Market.

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1. Cory Doctorow’s After the Siege #2
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Would you trust a robot that can kill humans and chooses not to?

Originally published in the Creative Commons comic Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now by IDW Publishing, I, Robot is remixed by Robot Comics to create a new version specifically designed for iPhone, iPod touch and Android devices.

• Title: I, Robot #2 of 2
• Credits: Original version: Cory Doctorow (story), Dara Naraghi (adapted by), Erich Owen (art), Chris Mowry (letterer), Tom Waltz (editor), Ashley Wood (cover), Justin Eisinger (collection edited by), Neil Uyetake (collection designed by). Remix: Yael Duckwen (adapted by).
• Publisher: IDW Publishing
• Price: Free
• Screens: 78

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I, Robot #2 is available for download on the following platforms:

iPhone/iPod touch

Click on the button below to open I, Robot #2 on the iTunes App Store. Requires iTunes.

Android

I, Robot #2 is available for free in the Android Market. Scan the QR code below with your Android to receive its url.

Alternatively, search “I, Robot” on the Market.

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Who wouldn’t want a fully automatic, laser-guided, armor-piercing, self-replenishing personal sidearm?

Originally published in the Creative Commons comic Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now by IDW Publishing, Nimby and the D-Hoppers is remixed by Robot Comics to create a new version specifically designed for iPhone, iPod touch and Android mobiles.

• Title: Nimby and the D-Hoppers
• Credits: Original: Cory Doctorow (story), Dan Taylor (adapted by), Dustin Evans (art), Robbie Robbins (letterer), Tom Waltz (editor), Justin Eisinger (collection edited by), Neil Uyetake (collection designed by). Remix: Yael Duckwen (adapted by).
• Publisher: IDW Publishing
• Price: Free
• Screens: 99

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Nimby and the D-Hoppers is available for download on the following platforms:

iPhone/iPod touch

Click on the button below to open Nimby and the D-Hoppers on the iTunes App Store. Requires iTunes.

Android

Nimby and the D-Hoppers is available for free in the Android Market. Scan the QR code below with your Android to receive its url.

Alternatively, search “Nimby and the D-Hoppers” on the Market.

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Would you trust a robot that can kill humans and chooses not to?

Originally published in the Creative Commons comic Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now by IDW Publishing, I, Robot is remixed by Robot Comics to create a new version specifically designed for mobile devices.

• Original credits: Cory Doctorow (story), Dara Naraghi (adapted by), Erich Owen (art), Chris Mowry (letterer), Tom Waltz (editor), Ashley Wood (cover), Justin Eisinger (collection edited by), Neil Uyetake (collection designed by)
• Publisher: IDW Publishing
• Remix credits: Yael Duckwen (adapted by), Hermes Pique (editor)
• Price: free
• License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States
• Orientation: landscape
• Screens: 74

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I, Robot #1 is currently available for iPhone/iPod touch and Android devices.

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market://search?q=pname:net.robotcomics.irobot.e1

Alternatively, search “i robot” on the Android Market.

Links

Original story

Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now

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