{"id":2833,"date":"2009-08-07T07:47:51","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T11:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=2833"},"modified":"2009-08-06T10:09:44","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T14:09:44","slug":"make-yourself-a-little-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=2833","title":{"rendered":"Make Yourself a Little Something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/makers-150x149.jpg\" alt=\"Makers\" title=\"Makers\" width=\"150\" height=\"149\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Cory Doctorow&#8217;s new novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Makers-Cory-Doctorow\/dp\/0765312794\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;shadmano-20&#038;qid=1249566206&#038;sr=8-1\">Makers<\/a> will be published in October, and as a runup to the release Tor.com is serializing the book on its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=blog&#038;id=38507\">site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve also created an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tor.com\/images\/stories\/blogs\/makers-tile-game\/\">online tile game<\/a> which is being serialized along with the book.  A total of 80 weird little illustrations <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebarnstorming.com\/archives\/2009\/07\/makers_illustra_2.html\">were created<\/a>, one for each chunk of the novel, and they&#8217;re drawn in such a way that each of an image&#8217;s sides will blend with any other image.  You can drag tiles around and rotate them to match rats&#8217; tails with firehoses or whatever else your little heart desires.  More tiles will be revealed as more chapters are released, so you can make more complex&#8230;um&#8230;things.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice to see this kind of online-specific promotion for a book, although it&#8217;s hardly surprising with Doctorow.  Having new game pieces released at intervals will keep the book on peoples&#8217; minds until its release, and this kind of game will appeal to its target audience.  Somebody in Tor&#8217;s marketing department apparently gets it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cory Doctorow&#8217;s new novel Makers will be published in October, and as a runup to the release Tor.com is serializing the book on its site. They&#8217;ve also created an online tile game which is being serialized along with the book. A total of 80 weird little illustrations were created, one for each chunk of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2833"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2838,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833\/revisions\/2838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}