Indie game dev

"Hi" Shuvam replied stiffly.

Shuvam was scared. He was scared sh*tless. But he knew there was no going back. After all, he had installed the software thingy himself. The temptation he got while reading the last line of the message he got in his phone ' It will help you achieve your goals in life. ' was too big.

He looked at the robot thingy and asked, " What are you ? "

" I am the one who will help you achieve your goals. My name is Andy. ", the robot 'Andy ' replied.

" Why are you helping me ? "

" Because you were chosen. "

" Who ? Who chose me ? "

" You will know when the time comes. For now, know this , In the cyber world there is nothing impossible for me. So, let me help you achieve your goals and one day when I require your help, you will have to repay me in full. "

After saying this, Andy revealed a wide grin from his earlier non existent mouth.

Shuvam had read a lot of light novels. He was really when he realized that this OP system would help him achieve his goals in life. But when he saw the grin on Andy's face, Shuvam was once again scared. It seemed like he was making a deal with the devil himself.

But when he remembered the warning he got from his father. He decided to go on with it. After he couldn't just magically get 70% in his upcoming 12th grade exams and he didn't want to give up on studying game development.

" As long as you help me make games, I will comply with all your requests." , Shuvam said solemnly.

" Since you agree to help me, I will surely help you grow. But first of all, you need to employ a hacker bot from the software you just installed. "

" What would I need that for ? "

Since he wanted to be lead a happy and fun life by playing and making games, he frowned when he heard that he needed to employ some hacker bot and second he didn't even know how to do it.

" Let me tell you this. Each and every person on this planet has their cyber activity constantly monitored. I have prevented them from hearing to us and monitoring you but I can only prevent them for about half an hour. So you would need hacker bot to prevent them from monitoring you."

" How do I employ one? There are no files related to the software or a shortcut to open the software."

" The software is called ' Game dev system ' and you have to say ' interface ' in order to open the software. "

"Interface", Shuvam said ecstatically.

The whole screen changed. He was taken to a new screen which had drak-red background and a few options to select from.

He was currently on the ' Current Projects ' tab. It said ' No current projects ' in big bold silver letters. There were other tabs such as employment office, employed bots and profile.

Andy appeared on the right side of the screen and explained how the software functioned and its options.

" This is the software. You can check your current projects in the current projects tab. The progress of the ongoing projects can be checked here. The employment office is where you employ bots for making them do your work. The bots are bought using dev coins. You will be given a startup amount of coins to work with and later you will earn them on the basis of the popularity of your games. Employed bots shows you the list of bots you have employed and shows whether those are bots are free or working in any project. Your profile shows you the popularity of your finished games and your current balance. "

" Now go to the employment office tab and employ a hacker bot. "

" What is my startup amount? "

" You have been provided with 1000 dev coins as startup amount. Since only basic bots are available for you to employ, it will cost you 100 dev coins to employ a basic hacker bot. "

" OK. I will buy one ASAP. But why basic? Will it be able to prevent those people from monitoring me? "

" It is more than enough for now. "

When he clicked on the employment office tab, he was shocked. There was a row of names with prices beside them. He felt like he was on a crappy e-commerce website with just name of the products and their prices. There were lots of bots. He saw animator bots, AI maker bots, hacker bots, level design bots, musician bots, assistant bots, 3d modeling bots, programmer bots and game testing bots. The prices were pretty much same, assistant bots and game testing bots were 10 dev coins each whereas the remaining ones were 100 dev coins each.

He was ecstatic when he saw these different types of bots that are needed to develop games .Since Andy was still there, he controlled himself and clicked on the hacker bot option.

It took him to an description page. The name of the bot was displayed in bold letters with its price - 100 dev coins, free space required - 100 GB and its description saying ' These bots help you by stopping any cyber attacks on you, preventing others from monitoring your cyber activity and helps you carry out cyber attacks on others. '

There was a blue ' employ ' button at the right side of the page. Shuvam clicked it. 100 of his dev coins and 100 GB of his free space went away just like that.

" I suggest you employ two of those. "

" Two. Why? "

"You pressed the blue ' employ ' button which means you employed a defensive hacker not which prevents others from attacking you. Now press that circular button at the side and you can employ offensive hacker bot. You will be needing one offensive bot to get you some money in order to buy better hardware."

" Wait, you can give me money, too? "

"Of course, employ a hacker bot and tell it to transfer money to your bank account. But the bank account needs to be yours not anyone else's."

Thinking how he can go to Kathmandu on his own and study game designing, he grew ecstatic and was grinning.