David Carreras POV
Its been twenty three years since I was reborn in this reality to an irresponsible teenage mother that wanted nothing to do with me and a very absent father.
For years I assumed this was my personal hell as my "mother" beat me whenever she could. One day she just decided to take me in a car and she rode off a rural area near Leeds and dropped me off and rode off never to be seen by me again.
Damn there goes my plan to poison her when I am older. I keep her off my mind mostly by not thinking of her but if she ever comes across me… well… you can imagine.
This world is in the year 2045 but it is way more advanced than mine. Scientifically and technologically. Honestly at first I felt like a boomer because hardware computers were out of style. Glasses that works like computers but uses your brainwaves to interact with it, Portable devices that project hard light computers with terabytes of RAM and crazy amounts of space.
They even found a way to make sure they only use green energy like solar, wind and nuclear micro reactors and sorts like that. Luckily it seems I got some gifts when I transmigrated. Nothing much but something none the less.
I am intelligent.
Like I am talking near Tony Stark levels of intelligence but it really shows itself in programming. My memory is crazy. It's not eidetic but it's damn close and it seems I have a minor ability that is similar to Taskmaster that I easily pick up and improve on physical skills. Sure I can't copy on sight but it's close.
I wonder if there is a reason. This seems like one of those series that aliens will attack or some mystical bs happens later.
Which brings me to now.
I fell in love with this world's gaming community. True virtual reality like those manhwas back home about it. Virtual pods which connect your consciousness to the virtual game world. You can really feel everything.
But the truth is the software amd hardware is great but the creativity of these people aren't even close to those from my old world. One Piece, ASOIAF, JJK, Elden Ring, John Wick. None of the classics are here. I don't know why but I decided to take advantage of that.Surprisingly Marvel and DC exist here but they only do movies and animations. Their last few games were ass. Completely tanking their stocks for a while and they haven't tried since.
I have already written all the books of ASOIAF and adapted it to my understanding and some extra lore for myself since it's my book in this world but I haven't released it.
Cause I had a plan. You see to develop a game you must send an email to the platform Virtual Realities which is like Steam in my old world but way more important as it is the only place that games can be played now. They hold the monopoly on gaming in this world after absorbing all their competition into themselves like Blizzard and Sony.
The big companies have to pay to get top tier world seeds but independent creators send in their ideas to Virtual Realities who then process it and filter out applications. After they are done the ones they approve of get given a world seed from A class to E class depending on how they think they will do.
What I did was write out all the five a song of ice and fire books yes including my version of a dream of spring and sent it to them saying that is the world it will be based on.
I was given a B class world seed which in truth is very good amd gave me more I could work with upping the world's hidden magic background more and making the Others more like Ice Fey in the books instead of the show's White Walkers with their "dumb" Night King.
Gathered a team from my college and my brothers and sisters from our orphanage who still stay in touch and formed the indie game company, Re-Life Studios. I personally coded an AI named Cassandra who in turn helped create life like NPC who are self learning and also grow like the players in the game. The story isn't static. Even NPC's can change by interacting with themselves or others.Complicated but we made it work. She also manages and combats glitches and hacks.
All our hard work has finally come to fruition as today is the pre launch day where we release the trailer before dropping it officially tomorrow.
"Tessa… this is it. We are either going to be rich or completely go broke." I said as my hands shook a bit. It's not that I didn't believe in what we have done.
"David stop over thinking this. We've done everything we can now. We have worked on this for three years now. You have nitpicked enough. We made a masterpiece, all of us have. Believe in yourself,David." she playfully snarked at me.
"This is like that time in college when he tried to ask Naomi out and had cold feet for weeks." said Roman Milinkovich, my best friend from college who turned down an offer from a big company because he believed in what we were doing. I still don't know how to pay them back.
We are nine in total in this team and I already gave them shares in the company as gifts for believing and working with me on my dream cause without them it would be a pipe dream to have achieved this so far. I own 51% shares in Relife while the remaining eight of them share 32% shares equally amongst each other while of the remaining 27%, 10% is owned by Virtual Realities and the remaining 17% is still on the market.
"Bro… can you stop bringing that up. You know how intimidating it was. Naomi was from a rich family while we were dirt poor amd there on scholarship. If she agreed it would have caused well… you remember." I said to Roman as my mind slipped back to those more carefree days when chasing girls seemed most important.
"Bro!!! She looked at you like some bug and dismissed your ugly ass like you were some maid. And you had the audacity to say it turned you on later." said Roman as he started banging the table as he laughed his as off.
As his laughter was in the background courage filled my heart once more. Yes. This is what I am doing this for. My friends, my brothers my sisters. I have to make it so we can live properly. The whole Lady Rena Smith Orphanage is counting on me.
I turned on the hard light computer and Cassandra loaded up and appeared on my screen.
"Are you ready now, David?"
"Yeah. I putting all my trust in you."
I navigated to the VR creator store and finally posted the trailer.
Now we wait.
Streamer: LastSay_705 POV
"Chat today has been a slow day I swear. That last game was so bad. I swear." said Daniel Remy to both himself and the few hundred people in his live stream.
Games these days have been overpriced and don't perform as well as they used to. Some even call this the Dark Age of gaming as everyone has just been creating online shooters and battle royals that have oversaturated the market.
VoidSamuraiXX02: Yo Danny. Check out the new trailer of a game coming out tomorrow. It's on Virtual Realities New Anticipated Category by an indie company. I just decided to check it out idly and it's wild.
No harm in that. I scrolled over and read the charts and found it at No.100. A Song Of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones. Weird name but ok let's check it out.
"All right chat I'm checking out the trailer our boy,Void recommended."
I clicked on it and my consciousness was transported to the mini world seed that hosted the trailer and my chat was watching too in anticipation. The last game Void recommended was cool so we trust his judgment a bit.
"If a Septon, a King and a sell sword are in a tavern. The Septon orders the sellsword to kill the king while the King orders the sell sword to kill the Septon. Who holds all the power?" a voice said as we were transported to above the clouds looking at a huge expanse of land with large medieval castles. I could see a huge red one in the expanse and thousands of moving characters moving along the roads and in the castles.
"Obviously the sell sword. He's the one with the sword and all the power. He holds the power over life and death."
The scenery changed to a black castle built upon a gigantic wall of ice. Saw men training with swords and going about their lives. The sword fighting was intense and very realistic. No powers just skill and strength.
"You really believe so,my Lord?" said the softer male voice again to the more gruff one.
"Yes,Lord Varys. It's simple. He can choose whatever he wants to do. Follow which ever order he wants to. He hold the sword thus the power." said the other male voice.
We were then flung across the ice age like expanse catching glimpses of people and all manner or beasts. Is that a mammoth? Is that a fucking giant. This is a medieval fantasy game! When last did we get something like this.
We came down to ground level and stood beside three men dressed head to toe in black as they stood ready against something coming out of the forest. I could tell they were very twitchy by the way of their stances and how quickly two of them were ready to leg it out of there.
A being came out of the trees. Pale blue from head to toe with a strong build and white hair. It looked very beautiful but it gave off a very cold and deadly aura. One of the men tripped and fell on his ass before getting it and started running and got skewered by undead corpses that came out from behind the trees.
The man screamed something and charged the fey like being. It also charged at him and so did the undead corpse started rushing at them.
"Power resides where men believe it resides,Lord Tyrion."
As those words were said. The scene cut to darkness and the game title was shown with the release date being tomorrow.
I came back to my virtual stream studio and I was buzzing. I felt it. This was the one. The graphics the dialogue. Everything was so fucking good.
I checked the price and it was only 30 pounds. Which is massive considering most games go for 60-70 pounds these days.
"Chat I am so buying this game. Tomorrow can't come soon enough." but was greeted with a surprise. My viewers had gone from 1200 to 16000 during that duration with majority of them spamming me to get it so they can watch.
Is this it? My lucky break. I got a feeling about it. A very good one.