Indie game dev

He couldn't take it anymore. He ignored pallavi's crying mother and went to sekhar. " I'm going. ",he said and started walking.

Sekhar wanted to stop him but he didn't. A few days ago, Pallavi had told him all about how both of them were secretly watching each other. He knew that Shuvam must have been heartbroken right now.

Shuvam walked out of the hospital. He sat in a taxi. He kept looking at pallavi's pictures on his phone. He had red watery eyes.

Suddenly, Andy popped up in the screen. " NOT NOW…", Shuvam said with a cold voice.

" It can't wait. "

" Fast.."

The driver looked back when Shuvam said fast but he noticed Shuvam was facing his phone so he thought Shuvam was video chatting with someone and looked ahead.

" User, death of Pallavi was intentional. It was done because of your relationship. "

Shuvam's face turned pale white when he heard this.

" Remember the guy you talked to, Aaditya or something. He is the one who is the cause. "

" How can he do it, you fool. He is just a normal guy. He just finished school. ", Shuvam said with disbelief. After all, how could he believe that some guy who was pursuing pallavi would get her killed for being with someone else.

" He is not simple or in any way normal. He has connections with the underworld. He works for them to smuggle drugs and weapons. "

" Hear this. "

Andy played a recording. It was a phone call recording.

" Hello. " Shuvam recognized that the owner of this voice was Aaditya.

" Aaditya? "

" Yes. Are you the guy ? "

" Yes. Target ? "

" Her name is Pallavi. She is in Kathmandu right now. I will send you a picture of her. Make sure that bitch dies while suffering. Hmph… such a bitch and has nerves to go to some other guy instead of me. Kill her when her lover's nearby. Let him suffer the loss. "

The recording ended. Tears started flowing from his eyes. The taxi reached the destination. He got off after paying and went into his room. He opened his laptop.

Andy popped up and said, " what do you want to do ? "

" Kill him ,of cour…", suddenly his phone rang.

It was Supriya. He picked it up.

" Where are you ? How did this happen ? ", she said in a low dispirited voice.

" I am at the apartment. Come home. ", he said coldly and hung up.

Supriya on the other hand talked to Sekhar about how the accident happened and took her leave.

" As I said he needs to be thoroughly tortured and then killed by my hands. Andy tell me how I can do that ? "

" Make games and earn dev coins. You don't have enough dev coins to carry out the task."

" How many dev coins do I need ? "

" 10,000 dev coins for just killing him. "

" How ? Hiring a killer on dark net. "

He shut his computer down and went to sleep with watery eyes.

Tomorrow, he woke up at 10:35 AM. Supriya didn't go to office today. She made breakfast and had been waiting for Shuvam to come and eat.

" Are you OK ? "

" Yes. "

" Come, have breakfast. "

He just nodded his head and ate his breakfast.

Supriya knew that this must have been a major blow to him. He had been telling her about how he was going to introduce her to his parents and he had even been thinking about marriage and having kids. When he told her about this, she that thought how cute it was that he was so serious about a girl but now thinking back to what he had said. She realized how heartbroken he must be right now.

After finishing his breakfast, he went to his bedroom. He just waited for his ordered things to arrive. The things such as the table, PC, headphones, mouse keyboard, etc arrived at his place at 12:30 PM.

He asked the helpers to transfer all the things to his room. The delivery guys left after doing so.

Shuvam took about 2 hours to connect the whole setup, install windows and connect the PC to the internet.

Meanwhile, Sekhar had called Supriya. He had called her to tell her to take care of Shuvam. He was worried that Shuvam might do something to himself.

Shuvam opened his old laptop and asked Andy to transfer the software and the two hacker bots to new PC. The process took a few seconds and it was done. He asked Andy to format the windows in the old laptop and install windows 7. He intended to donate this laptop to some orphanage.

Shuvam immediately hired new bots. He had already hire the two hacker bots. He had 800 dev coins left. He used all of them to hire three 3D model maker bots, one animator bot, a AI maker bot, a music maker bot and two programmer bots.

He realized that nearly used up about 1 TB of his space just to hire these few bots. He them rembered that Andy had told him that cloud space would be okay too.

He didn't have any money right now. So he decided to wait for few days before he gets more bots.

" Interact ",he said.

He clicked on the create a new project button in the current projects tab. He named it ' Crystal wars '. He had long since wanted to make this post apocalyptic zombie mutant game.

He opened the project which took him to a new screen. The screen was divided into two parts by a horizontal line. The ratio of the two parts was nearly 3:1. In the lover part the names of all the bots were listed along with the work they are carrying out currently and time remaining for the work to be finished.

The upper part was showing how the game is and showed all the mechanics of the game being formed.

" First of all, 3D model maker bots make a piece of plane that is equivalent to Nepal. " ( Check Nepal's map if you wanna know how it is. )

The 3D model maker bots started their work, they used satellite images from google as cross reference. The time required was only 15 minutes because there were 3 bots working and they just had to make plane surface and nothing else.

In the mean time, Shuvam went to a nearby store and bought a notebook. He intended to make GDD ( game design document ) in this copy. He started scribbling various stuff about the game. He was pursuing what he wanted to play. He didn't care about if others would play it or not.

After the wait, the work of 3D model plane was completed. The upper part of screen was showing a plane which was rectangular-ish in shape. It was the zoomed out thing.

In actuality the map of the game was equivalent to the area of Nepal. It was around 150,000 square kilometers. He planned to do this because he reckoned the topography of Nepal was right for the game.

He realized that he should be fast. He ordered the music makers to make music for any natural phenomenon such as wind flowing, gunshots, people screaming, zombie sounds, mutated animal shrieks, roars, etc.

The work was fairly large and he took about 30 minutes to explain the various types of music or sounds he wanted. The music work was scheduled to be finished after 10 days.

He once again turned to the 3D model maker and asked it to separate the terrain of the country in accordance with reality. The topography of Nepal was special. There existed various plain lands, valleys, hills and sky high mountains too. ( Sorry for shamelessly advertising my country lol. I am a shameless author indeed. )

To the north there were snow capped ice mountains. As one heads south the northern mountains turn into hills and then hills into plain land.

This was scheduled to finish after 8 hours. Shuvam them thought that the AI should be good too. He then ordered the AI maker bot to make an basic AI with feelings, with greed, desire, pain, etc. It should represent a human. The code once implemented to an model should make the game object turn into something like a real human. It shouldn't be rigid like the AI in the current game market.

The AI should be intractable and they should just keep living on in the game ' world ' even if there are no players in the game.

Andy popped up at this time and warned, " You do realize that making such a complex AI for this not would take about 1 month or so. It might delay the project. "

" So what ? I will complete the game until then and then use the AI code on the NPC at the end. "

The time required to finish this job was indeed about a month ,32 days. He then went to sit on his sofa.

He had nothing to do and unknowingly started thinking about Pallavi. He realized that this would mess up his plan for revenge. He took out his phone looked at her photos for a while and went to watching anime on his phone.

He just wanted himself to be busy doing something or else he would think about her and her only and he knew that since she was not here he would very likely want to leave too.