This gives players who would rather spend money than time and effort an advantage over players who either can’t afford these kinds of shortcuts, or who would just rather play the game as it was intended.Īnda is really good at taking down the gold farmers, and soon she and her friends are making a pretty good business of it. You see, the problem with an MMO’s economy is that it can get really messed up if people farm gold, the in-game currency, for the sole purpose of selling it for real world dollars. It isn’t long before Anda, being a natural at Coarsegold Online, is offered a paying gig: killing in-game gold farmers.
Anda jumps at the opportunity.Īfter convincing her mom to allow her to play online with the stipulation that she will only be playing with other girls her own age, she joins the guild. She offers all the girls in the class a chance to join the guild.
One day her programming class is visited by a hip and cool guest speaker who is the leader of the biggest all-female guild in the popular, made up for the story MMO Coarsegold Online. It is also beautifully illustrated.Īnda Bridge is a nerdy high school student that loves D&D, programming, and to the shock of no one, video games. It’s also a story about how the world can be an unjust and cruel place sometimes, and how that is very very hard to change.
It’s the story of a girl who meets a boy and how they are able to communicate in real time thanks to the internet, even though they live on opposite sides of the world and speak different languages. It’s a story of kids wanting to hang out and play, and others who don’t have a lot of choice in the matter. It is a tale of economics and video games. In Real Life is Jen Wang’s adaptation of the Cory Doctorow short story “Anda’s Game”.
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