Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role playing game that she spends most of her free time on. It’s a place where she can be a leader, a fighter, a hero. It’s a place where she can meet people from all over the world, and make friends. Gaming is, for Anda, entirely a good thing.
But things become a lot more complicated when Anda befriends a gold farmer—and Anda soon comes to realize that questions of right and wrong are a lot less straightforward when a real person’s real livelihood is at stake.
From acclaimed teen author Cory Doctorow and rising star cartoonist Jen Wang, Con/Game is an original comic story set in the world of Doctorow and Wang’s In Real Life, a sensitive, thoughtful look at adolescence, gaming, poverty, and culture-clash.
You can also read an except of In Real Life here.
If there was only an electro-synth version of “The Entertainer” playing in the background, this comic would be perfect!
This was so cool.
I suddenly feel the urge to go back to my old RPG’s. :P (never played an MMORPG)