Indie game dev

After reading for a while he realised it was 4:30. The laptop was still on. He remembered that he had set the gym time from 5 PM to 6:30 PM. He wore a pair of trousers and vest and went to the gym.

Supriya was starting to make dinner when she noticed that he was going out. " Where are you going ? ",she asked.

" Gym. "

She nodded her head and sighed while turning. Shuvam went to the gym. It was his first time going to the gym after a year or so. So he decided to stick with basic exercises for the first week.

At 6:20, he was done with all the exercises. He took a shower and came back. He once again started reading novels. He had dinner and at about 11 PM, the computer made an buzzing sound notifying him that one of the works had been completed.

The work for the terrain was completed. He then asked the 3D model maker to add trees that could be damaged due to reasons like chopping down, gun shots, explosives , etc and also add in any sort of roads and pathways. But the pathways were meant to be turned into unmanaged roads and pathways with potholes all over them.

This was scheduled to be finished after 1.5 days. He then remembered something and ordered the programmer not to make a in game video recorder which would record the video of the game without the need of any external video recording software. This was scheduled to be done after 10 days.

Shuvam would read novels or watch anime or read manga, his life just kept going on and on like that. But it felt really empty. He would always go to the gym at time and that was the only time he would get out of the apartment.

Like this a month went by, the 3D model makers had already created rivers , post apocalyptic styled buildings for all the buildings of Nepal, mutated versions of animals found in Nepal, a varieties of different classed zombies and a customizable character that would use the webcamera for making the in game character look like the real person.

The facial recognition system for this in game software was made by the programmer bot. The bot had also made a way of connecting worlds any country's bank account or any credit or debit card or PayPal or any other E-portals.

You would just have to select your country and all the lists for the banks available at that country or e commerce services available there would be there for purchasing or selling the in-game currency i.e. crystals.

The music for sounds made by any vehicles or zombies had also been completed but this time it had only taken 5 days.

The 3D modeller bots were currently working on an futuristic hand watch to display stats, weapons, vehicles, bases across the country and the AI inside the map. It was scheduled to to be done after 20 days when it started and 15 days were still remaining.

Due to the photorealistic effect of the 3D models and map, Shuvam had a worry that it would require high spec PC to run this game. So he asked Andy if anything could be done.

" It is quite easy. I will make the programmer bot to make a code that will ensure that except a few things such as compressed 3D models and animations the computer does not need to do anything. All the processing will be carried out in the server but first, you only have about 500 GB of remaining space in your laptop. So user is advised to use the $25,000 transferred to your account and rent some servers for us. "

" How much space do I need to rent ? "

" 100 TB for storing any games and 200 TB for the hosting of the game Crystal wars and storing any bots required in it. "

"..." he just nodded with a blank expression. He then went to Google cloud and checked the prices. He could rent 1 GB space for a price of $0.026 for a month.

He used around $8000 to rent 300 TB for a month. He had calculated that by the end of this subscription he would have released his game and it would start raking in money that could be used for the managing of the game.

The programmer not was then notified to make a program to use the server for computing. Shuvam asked Andy about the capacity of user this 200 TB could handle. It answered, " about 10 million. "

He would need to rent more space if the player base increased. He also asked the minimum specification with which the game could be played. He was a bit delighted when he heard the required specifications for his godly game. It required 3GB of free RAM, 750 MB graphics card, 2.1 GHz processor. This was pretty much manageable by any gamer. So he thought that this might help more people play it. It was also convenient to play as playing the game would require the internet speed of 100 kilobytes per second.

Nowadays this was a really small speed so he was ecstatic when he thought that even his brother back home could play this. He suddenly remembered someone else whom he could have given a GM account to and grew sad.

He had decided to put the issue back after all he couldn't let her memories get in way of his revenge. Making the first game and using the money raked in was the only way for him to get that sucker.

The college he wanted to go to was also starting admission. He visited the college and enquired about the fees. It had been increased to $ 9,000 for the whole course of four years. He went to the bank and paid the whole amount. He took the voucher from the bank and took his admission. Because of his ' act ' he had gotten chance to meet with the dean of the college.

The dean treated him well and chatted about the course and ow he was happy to get students. One know that not many people were willing to do game designing in Nepal. People here pursue a little stable careers like being an engineer or doctor or pilot.

( Author's note :- lol my own graprents ( Mom's side ) were like your brother is beyond saving he wants to make stupid games. You should not do this. To my brother. They said this to my younger brother. He told me this and I was like rolling on the floor laughing #bed_not_floor when I heard it. )

He realized that it would be a drag to not have a means of transport so he first of all went to a driving centre which teaches how to ride bikes. He issued the time 3-4 for a course of half a month.

Days quickly passed by. His game was near completion. Just a few tweaks such as last bit of zombie AI was remaining to be done. It would take another 10 hours for the AI to finish. Everything else had already been done. The animations, 3d models, controls, etc were done. There was also an auction house set up in order to sell or auction things. The game dev that is our Shuvam would get to shave off crystals from users at the rate of 5% per transaction.

The crystals were also up for sale. It would cost 1$ to buy 10 crystals. The crystals were the currency in the apocalyptic world. The crystals so bought could give one with some boost but it couldn't make you OP. It would at very best make you 20% stronger than common player base in case you could find someone to sell you their loots. All the revenue so earned would be transferred to a dark web account he had made earlier. After this month, he had ordered Andy to use this money to rent the servers and to hire the killers.

The guns and weapons could be gotten after killing the zombies which are at least 1st class or higher. The vehicles were with the AI and could be bought if your relation with a NPC was very good. It would still cost a fortune to do so.

Various guilds, mercenary groups, parties could be set up. Communication channels could be set up and you could chat using microphone or text messages.

Various classes such as weapon designer, vehicle designer, armor designer, etc were available. Recepies for such weapons, armors and vehicles could be found from various bosses. At first these classes may be crystal burning ones but later on after a month of release of the game, customization of the weapon would be available which would allow such weapons designers to make major changes in the weapons or vehicles and make custom tailored ones.

Various dungeons were set up too. All in all it was one of those advanced VRMMO games you see in the novels but this MMO game was one that you could play on the computer with a flat screen. The game was good. The photorealistic graphics was the main point and it could be operated from any average Joe computer too.