Indie game dev

He leaves in his bike. He rode at a fast speed. With all the occasional traffic, he reached near his college in about 15 minutes. His college was just a turn away from this road. You would have to go inside the alleyway sort of road in order to reach the college building.

Just when he made the turn, a girl popped out of nowhere and they collided. She hit the bikes body with the front tyre of her bicycle. She fell down on the dust filled black topped asphalt road. She got a few bruises and cuts because of the fall.

He took his helmet off and placed it on the bike. He got off the bike and offered her a hand. The girl was a bit hesistant as the guy might take advantage of the situation. She looked at him. ' He seems honest and handso… what the hell am I thinking ? ' , she thought and took his help to get up.

Shuvam was fat until last year but it was not much so die to the fat cutting proteins, balanced diet and the exercises he had for the last few months, he had lost a lot of weight and had close to none fat on his body. He looked like a normal guy, not too lean or thin and not too fat. He could even see for of abs and that was something he was proud of. ' If only she could see it. ' , he thought while remembering Pallavi.

He noticed the cuts and bruises on the girls hand, palm and legs. He then told her to wait and ran to a nearby shop on the main road to get Band-Aids.

After a few minutes, he came back but the girl was gone. He didn't think much of it and went to his bike while putting the Band-Aids in his pocket.

After a minute or half, he reached the school building. The school had an underground parking space. He parked his bike there and went inside the building.

This building was a bit weird. Unlike the other colleges in Nepal, there was reception available here. He actually hadn't been to colleges before but he knew his past high school didn't have a reception.( Note - #way to tell that I don't know if there are receptions in other colleges, there was one at this college. My school doesn't have one…. #shameless_me )

He went to the reception and the receptionist about where his class was. The college was a 3 storeyed building. There were reception, staff rooms, accountant's room, etc in the ground floor. Classes in first floor and the uppermost floor had Dean's office and the computer rooms. The computer rooms here were advanced they were used for learning game designing by the students and also used to play games by the students.

He tells his registration number to the receptionist and finds out about his class. He enters the class. There is no one in the class. The class looked like it could accommodate about 40 people. There were benches and desks arranges in two rows. He went to the last bench on the right row and sat down.

Just then, two boys come in. Both them were lean and wore glasses. They noticed that shuvam was the only one in the class. They came to him to strike a conversation in hopes of becoming friends.

They talked for a bit about their favorite games and stuff but left in less than five minutes because of the cold behaviour of shuvam. They were wondering why this stud was here. This was a place for geeky and nerdy ones. They even wanted to ask him but noticing his cold behaviour, hey didn't. They decided to just ignore him and sat in farther seats.

Just then, three girls came in. They were all pretty and among them was the girl Shuvam had seen earlier. He saw her and felt guilty. He decided to make a sketch for her and say ' sorry '.

He quickly started drawing. Just when he was finished the bell rang. He lifted his head up and saw that there were a lot of people in the class. Including him, there were about 30 students in the classroom. Shortly after, the teacher came in. He was a foreigner. Others didn't know who he was but shuvam knew that this was the Dean of this college. He didn't expect the Dean to be their teacher. He knew that the Dean had a Master's in Art but it really was a pleasant surprise.

" Morning class. My name is John. I will be teaching you sketching. It is very important in the game development industry. Now before I explain any further, I will have to ask you to introduce yourselves. "

The people started one by one and started to introduce themselves. It was shuvam's turn now. He stoop up and with an cold expression said , " Shuvam. " and sat down.

Shuvam had remembered that the name of the two boys that had come to talk to him was Yogesh and Sandesh. As for the girl, her name was Alisha.

Everyone was amazed to see how cold this person was. Most of all, Alisha was surprised to see him here. He was responsible for the pain she was in right now, so she naturally remembered who he was.

The Dean didn't mind it much. He had already know that the boy was cold and had low EQ from the last time they had chatted. After everyone was done, john said, " Now for this year's classes, you have two subjects, English and Sketching. As for the remaining time you are to spend it at college honing your gaming skills. The college has decided to form E-sports team this year and have the ones with good gaming skills to participate in various events as the college's official team. "

Since it was first day, he just showed off what skill level we are expected to reach after this year's sketching classes. Shuvam speculated that the skill level required to get full credits in this year's sketching exam was somewhere in between basic and novice.

After the period ends, the teacher leaves. ( Note - In the movies I see that the students in US had to change classes whenever the period ended but here the students sit in the same class and the teachers come, teach and go and another teacher comes. )

Shuvam then stands up from his seat. He walks up to Alisha. Alisha and her friends were sitting in the first seat. " Hi. " , shuvam said.

" Hello. "

" Sorry for earlier. ", shuvam said and took the Band-Aids out of his pocket and handed it to her. He also gave her the folded piece of paper to her. The paper was the one he tore from his sketchbook. He had drawn her in that piece of paper. He didn't wait for a reply and walked back to his seat after handing her the paper and Band-Aids.

The second class was English. It went by pretty smoothly, for him at least. Whereas, Alisha and her friends were thinking how this cold hearted stone faced guy draw such good sketches and he gave it to Alisha. Under her teasing her friends, she was blushing hard and looked like a tomato. She even occasionally looked back and would be a bit sad to see that he was totally concentrated in his studies and didn't look at her even once.

While the boys were getting jealous that the boy just gave her some letter or something and now one of the girls of their class was just gonna slip away.

In this class of thirty students, there were only 7 girls. Alisha could be said to be the pretty ones. The other four were not that pretty. At most they could be called average. She and her friends were like the current school belles but this guy had just made a move on one of the belles and was likely succeeding.

After the third class, John came to their class and said, " Guys if you have a laptop with you, lay here and if you don't have one go to the computer room and play crystal wars. The other games are currently not that famous. This game needs to be focused and you guys should research about this game. After all it is said to be one of the best games of the decade. "

Shuvam took out his laptop. It was a predator laptop. He noticed that a few more people were bringing out their laptops but majority of the people were going to the computer room. The other quickly opened their laptops and started playing. Unlike him, who just d is browser and watched kdrama. It had been a long time since he watched kdrama.

The time went pretty quick. After the end of fifth period, Shuvam packed his bag and quickly went to the parking. He took out his bike and rode back. The classmates of his naturally noticed him and couldn't help but think that this guy was seriously in the wrong place. He was clearly not a nerd or a dork. ' Just why the hell did he come here ? ',they thought.

Alisha was a bit dispirited. She had thought that shuvam would find some excuse to talk to her. As a pretty girl, from middle school to high school, she had rejected lots of such attempts from guys but she kind of looked forward to this cold hearted stone face approaching her. But contrary to her expectations, he didn't even glance after her after he aid sorry. If you asked shuvam, it was simple as there was no reason to further talk to her.

Shuvam didn't go home. He went to a nearby supermarket and bought Xbox and a big TV. He had it delivered and set up at his place. Altogether it cost $ 1,600. He also got quite a few of latest games for free. After he had it installed, it was already time for gym so he went to the gym…