{"id":64572,"date":"2018-11-21T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/331236"},"modified":"2018-11-21T20:01:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T20:01:00","slug":"rares-studio-dogs-don-pirate-hats-and-bowties-for-a-very-good-charity-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/21\/rares-studio-dogs-don-pirate-hats-and-bowties-for-a-very-good-charity-calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare&#8217;s studio dogs don pirate hats and bowties for a very good charity calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sea of Thieves <\/em>developer Rare is raising money for charity by compiling adorable snapshots of the many wonderful dogs that sometimes roam the game studio\u2019s halls into an absolutely adorable 2019 calendar.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Each of the calendar\u2019s 12 pages features a different pup belonging to a game developer at Rare and a brief blurb describing the lives and ambitions of each very good boy or girl, like July\u2019s Bailey, a wanna-be pirate, or March\u2019s Gracie, a four-month-old <em>Perfect Dark Zero<\/em> enthusiast.<\/p>\n<p>More information on the calendar itself can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.seaofthieves.com\/proddetail.php?prod=RARE_RW_0003&amp;cat=5197\">Rare\u2019s website<\/a>, while behind-the-scenes doggie photo shoot pics are <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JessBoneBreaker\/status\/1065219355703676928\">already<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Winwardo\/status\/1065221184801906689\">cropping up<\/a> on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The Dogs of Rare Charity Calendar is up for preorder now and due to release on December 3. Rare says that all of the profits generated from sales of the calendar will go to the SpecialEffect, a UK-based charity that helps people with physical disabilities play video games by providing them with accessible controller tech and personalized information. More information on SpecialEffect and the charity&#8217;s accessibility-focused advice for developers can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/\">organization&#8217;s website<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Introducing the Dogs of Rare Calendar 2019! Featuring majestic portraits of Rare pups, this calendar is a must have. All profits go to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpecialEffect?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SpecialEffect<\/a> to help them bring gaming to disabled children and adults. Pre-order now, it&#8217;s a perfect Christmas gift! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Tj1WSCtTVP\">https:\/\/t.co\/Tj1WSCtTVP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TU9Y4TPSNO\">pic.twitter.com\/TU9Y4TPSNO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n\u2014 Rare Ltd. (@RareLtd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RareLtd\/status\/1065203783607697408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sea of Thieves developer Rare is raising money for charity by compiling adorable snapshots of the many wonderful dogs that sometimes roam the game studio\u2019s halls into an absolutely adorable 2019 calendar.\u00a0 Each of the calendar\u2019s 12 pages features a different pup belonging to a game developer at Rare and a brief blurb describing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}