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).
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.
It aspires to be our Nintendo DSi robot mascot, yet it lacks a name. Only you, dear reader, can help this robot become our Nintendo DSi ambassador by giving him a proper name!
To participate, post a comment with as with many name suggestions as you want. Submissions will be accepted until the end of July. Only names included in a comment of this post will be considered. In the case of repeated names, only the oldest post will be considered.
The most witty, inventive and original name will be chosen, and the winner will get our digital appreciation in the shape of a shout-out in DSComics!
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).
Robot Comics is a digital comics publisher for hand-helds: Apple's iPhone, Google's Android, Nintendo DSi and Amazon's Kindle. We offer titles specifically designed to be read on e-devices. (more)
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