He looked at me so furiously, I didn't know what to do, "You lied to me! Pretending to be your sister and making me fall for you, is this sabotage?" he yelled at my sister.
"We never planned to sabotage Skyler! If you want me then take me, scold me, fire me do what you want, but my brother has nothing to do with this…" My sister's words touched me, and I had to do the right thing. "I'm sorry for what I did, please punish me and not my sister, I beg of you" I said while kneeling and crying begging the boss of my sister to keep her job.
"I'll give you a chance if your Team succeeds and makes the game you develop, rank 1," He said, as my sister felt relieved, and we left the building immediately.
"You have to stay away from my boss from now on," My sister said as she held my hand,
I would stay away from him.
THIRD PERSON'S POV
Many years ago
"Hey, Sky have you checked already the apps that Cindy proposed for developing?" Kean asked as he settled down in his friend's office, Kean was the VP of the SkyMaze GameTech and he always checked if Skyler already checked the planning department's project proposal, led by Cindy Traes a Filipina, working for their company.
Skyler Mazer is one of the famous bachelors in town, he is already 28 years old but he never had an interest in any woman he had encountered.
"I already checked it and approved it, the developing team has developed it but look, just in 24 hours there is only one download from the same person who always downloads the app that Cindy creates, is this her brother?" Skyler said as he was very disappointed he fixed his glasses and jacket, a black hoodie jacket, paired with black tattered pants,
"Come on give them a chance after months it will be a top-rank game," Kean said, cheering up Skyler.
"And when did that happen?" Skyler asked
"Happened what?" Kean asked back as he was confused
"Having a top-rank game?" Skyler asked making Kean silent
It is true none of the games they had developed ranked 1 most likely it is only in the top 10 or top 20, Skyler missed the time when he created a game that ranked 1 in the world and became the most played game for 4 years straight, but then it crashed and the competitors created much better games than he does, it almost ended his career but he never gave up and created his own company.
"Have faith Skyler…" Kean said and left the room, Skyler played his comfort game, Bubble Witch,
Days passed still no good result, so he immediately called a meeting with all of the heads of every department,
"Can anyone please tell me something good?" Skyler asked, almost pleading to his employees, but everyone remained silent, "How about bad news?" Almost everyone raises their hand,
"Sir, an investor pulled investment" "Sir, we lack a budget for the upcoming project" "Sir we got rejected by a game streamer to promote our game"
Skyler holds his temple, it seems he is waiting for someone to say they went bankrupt but thankfully there is still hope after all.
"We will try to create more games then, aim higher people, where is your creativity and also check the trend!" Skyler said in a demanding tone, "Meeting adjourned!" everyone left. Skyler was left at the office he was planning on creating more games but he was afraid, that when he went back to making games he would be disappointed again and lose everything, for a moment in his life he was on rock bottom a young player was playing his game praising him that one day he wants to be part of the game industry, after his last release he never heard of that young player again.
"Can someone tell me what the latest projects of the competitors are?" Skyler asked his secretary and some other employees.
"Sir there is a new game in the market, an RPG mostly common for mobile and it has ranking and competitions already worldwide, from kids to adults are playing this, namely Valor, Legends One and Two" His secretary explained, Sky sighed as he heard this,
"We need to create more top-tier games…" Sky walked out to his office.
He visits his old game, Lords of Loyalty, a game where the player leads a country and creates their own decision to be loyal to their country or leave, after playing for a long he recognizes someone, the only player in that game, Seasalt, he was still building his country and already colonized half of the map. A genuine smile creeps on his lips, "Seasalt…" he mutters, Skyler played the game for about an hour, then he went to the meeting room,
"So what is the plan? What games are you proposing?" Skyler asked as he sat in his chair,
"Good day sir, I want to propose Shadow 13, a game where the gamer has to find the 13 princes in a shadow realm, it is a simulation game," Cindy said confidently the head of the Planning Department, "This was proposed by Wujun, our game developer and we see potential with it" Cindy continued, but Skyler look at them seriously, " So what is the point of the game? That was it? Finding 13 princes, and then what? One of them becomes king? I need full detail not just the surface information, I want to know how it works, the mechanics, and the design" Skyler looked at them seriously, then Wujun stepped forward, "Well sir, its actually like this, the story begins with a character who was trapped in the Shadow realm, to get back to the world, player must search and gather all the princes which are the reason why there is a shadow realm, the 13 princes got separated and if gathered together their happiness becomes the source of light, but each prince has a story that needs to be uncovered each prince carry a music shard diamond that is why they need to be together" Wujun explained, "So who will introduce the mechanic it would be boring if it is a system explaining to the player" Skyler pointed out, "Well it would be the crown prince, he holds the first music shard diamond all the player have to do is find the others, the 12 princes, but when the player is able to gather the twelve, when player gets back, the crown prince is kidnapped by a Villain, so the player must find the 13 on the entire game", "Oh that is very interesting, I wanna see the designs and then the initial and final development of the game, for now you can start the development, and Cindy immediately draft a plan for the release and marketing send it to marketing and financial department for finalizing…" in a deep tone voice he said, and went back to his office, he walks down the hall, and saw his employee giving flowers to his other employee, he stares for a while he realized he never had someone to give flowers to or to tease while playing, his love life was in level 0 and needs to be pressed start by someone special.
TO BE CONTINUED...