We’ve all been there, right: you’re tired from a rough night of the rock’n'roll lifestyle so you decide to bring only one axe to your gig.  Halfway through the second jam in your set, *bwanngggg!* — you pop your B string during a solo…bummer, right!

And now there you are, sweating through one of your drummer’s terrible jokes while you’re winding up the new string.  If only you had a string winder, like this one by Thingiverse’s own mclisp!  You could have been finished before he got the the part about the alligator bartender.  And since it’s a MakerBotted part, you wouldn’t even have suffered through an annoying upsell from a big-box guitar store checkout dude.

Rock on, Thingiverse-style!

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It’s 20 years in the future and you’re on a tour at MakerBot Industries HQ.

You really shouldn’t have wandered away from your tour guide. The gleam of glass in a deserted room caught your eye for just a moment… but with that mob of chattering tourists out of sight, the MakerBot facility doesn’t seem quite as friendly as it did a moment ago.

Servos hiss behind you — but that’s not the guidebot’s cheery mask looming out of the shadows. It’s a security bot! You’re in trouble now. You duck into the laboratory. Or is it a showroom? Test chamber? You pull the door shut; hopefully you can hide out until the robot has passed.

MakerBot is proud to launch our next product with a text adventure entitled “Key Features” created by Andrew Plotkin. Text adventures, also known as interactive fiction, have been around since the early days of computing.  In this adventure, when you enter the room you’ll find objects that will help you solve a mystery.

But there’s something innovative and special about this text adventure that’s never been done before! In the game when you pick up an object, like a key, you’ll get a link to Thingiverse.com where you can download the design file and make it on your MakerBot! In the past you’ve had to check your inventory list to know what you’ve got. In this game you can just look in your actual pocket to see the parts you’ve created with the MakerBot.

Only those who can make their way through this adventure will have the hint to what MakerBot will be announcing at CES!

Start playing now!