Chapter 18
Translator: True Detective
Chapter 18
5. My Creation (2)
Currently, on the comment section of a video related to 「My Creation」 boasting a whopping 500 million views on Mutube, this comment is written.
'No one has quit 「My Creation」. We are just taking a break from 「My Creation」 for a very long time.'
This statement was not wrong.
Because children who encountered 「My Creation」 in their childhood cannot forget the nostalgia of that time even after becoming adults and continue to play this game.
Just seeing that it is still in active service despite a whopping 15 years having passed since its release, one can sufficiently guess how elaborately this game was made.
In fact, 「My Creation」 was a game that could be called a legend itself, recording the highest sales volume while being evaluated as one of the best masterpieces among games made in the 21st century.
Incredibly simple controls.
Casualness that anyone of any age or gender, even those encountering games for the first time, can easily enjoy.
An incredibly vast size known to be several times that of Earth.
In contrast, a degree of freedom that can realize almost everything users imagine.
Multiplayer content that can be enjoyed together with several people, not just alone.
And even various mods capable of newly recreating the game itself.
Would you believe it if I exaggerated a little and said it's possible to experience all genres of existing games just by playing the game called 「My Creation」?
So I could guarantee.
If only I could make people from other dimensions play 「My Creation」, this too would be able to captivate their hearts at once like 「Star Wars」.
However, if there is one problem, by what means will I make people from other dimensions purchase this game....
What's the use if the game is fun.
The people from other dimensions who will actually purchase this game are not within physical reach of me, so by what means would I sell the game?
‘It's not like there is an internet game sales site like Earth's Ellik Store in this neighborhood.’
But surprisingly, the solution to this problem was quite close.
Because among the hidden items on the ‘Trans-Dimensional Streaming’ site, there was something like this.
- A platform where anyone can upload games and anyone can download games.
“.....”
To be honest, at this time, I really lost my words.
When I first saw the internet broadcasting platform called ‘Trans-Dimensional Streaming’, I thought there would be nothing more surprising.
‘Dimensional Gallery’ and ‘Job Market’ were not enough, now even a game-related platform ‘Stellar’ existed?
‘...It's driving me crazy, really.’
Well, anyway, the existence of such a game platform site is not a bad thing for me.
Like that, I accessed Stellar and checked the games currently uploaded there.
Most of the games uploaded to Stellar were games uploaded by users from the dimension ‘Reactor’... that is, Machine Civilization.
Indeed, I heard they had a history of uploading a few boring movies similar to documentaries to the gallery in the past, so they had enough technology to make games, right?
After consuming blood-like mana and playing a few games they uploaded, I came to this conclusion.
“...Is this really right?”
To be honest, a significant number of games currently uploaded to Stellar were copy versions of those that can be played in reality.
Board games like Go, Poker, Chess, and Blue Marble.
Of course, there were extremely few games that were not like that, but....
“The quality is too crude.”
It didn't mean technology or graphics were lacking.
Just, purely not fun.
It was not an exaggeration to say it was a work of a graduate student who made a game by roughly shoving code according to a university professor's order.
Furthermore, the biggest problem among them was none other than.
It was that the perception of games uploaded to Stellar was not very good among the majority of gamers.
Since the overall perception of games is like this, even if I upload 「My Creation」 to Stellar, I couldn't guarantee it would definitely be a hit.
“...Ah whatever, I don't know anymore. Now.”
I know well the fact that the probability of 「My Creation」 succeeding is not that high in this environment, but what can I do.
‘Let's upload first and think later.’
Since uploading to Stellar doesn't cost money, it would be enough to worry about how to make the game a hit later.
Like that, I completed the upload of 「My Creation」 without much thought.
And... a week passed.
Traditionally, gamers are beings who always feel thirsty for new games.
Because games are like monsters, even if one enjoys a game for over a thousand hours, one might go crazy for a new game that smells like shit.
Looking at it in that sense, the Ancient Dragon Tenebris residing in dimension ‘Niflheim’... that is, Tina was always feeling thirsty.
Because her hobby was quite uniquely ‘games’, but recently there were almost no new games uploaded to Stellar.
‘Damn human bastards.’
Tina was examining the recently updated ‘New Games’ item pouting her lips.
‘Why on earth do those guys not make games? Even the developer from Machine Civilization side who used to upload games consistently has become inactive these days.’
Actually, she also knows.
The fact that the quality of games uploaded to Stellar is not very high, and even if a new game is uploaded, the probability of pressing the ‘Refund’ button while sighing deeply like usual is much higher.
But you never know.
One day, a superman riding a white horse might appear out of nowhere and change the topic of the Dimensional Gallery entirely to game stories.
‘Well, the probability of such a thing happening is almost zero though.’
At the moment she dragged down the New Games item with such an expressionless face, something caught her eye.
“...「My Creation」?”
For a moment, Tina tilted her head.
Leaving the game's name aside, the name of the user who uploaded the game was quite fascinating.
“...Choi Seo-jin?”
At first, she wondered if it was a person from the Martial Arts World or Cultivation World, but thinking carefully, she remembered where she heard this name.
“Wasn't he the streamer professionally introducing the culture of a dimension called Earth? He also introduced a movie called 「Star Wars」....”
It was a movie with quite excellent completion unlike a work created by insignificant humans at best.
Thanks to that, the memory of Tina also having a fun time after quite a long while watching 「Star Wars」 was still fresh.
But this game called 「My Creation」 was related to Cup Noodle-Zwa who had a history of introducing the movie called 「Star Wars」?
"The probability that the dimension called Earth produced even a game called 「My Creation」 following 「Star Wars」 is... safe to see as almost zero."
No matter how high the reputation of the dimension called Earth is in the area related to culture, does it make sense to produce masterpieces in both fields of movies and games?
In nine cases out of ten, it must be clear that Choi Seo-jin only took charge of distribution for the work called 「My Creation」.
"But just the fact that it's a game recommended by that guy makes it worth looking forward to enough."
He is a guy who became a star within the Dimensional Gallery at once by introducing a whopping movie called 「Star Wars」 to people of all dimensions.
Would such a guy lend his name to a game like a riffraff when he has his name value?
She smiled broadly without realizing it and installed the game immediately paying mana without any hesitation.
As she ran the game, the game title and production company name appeared on the intro screen.
Before playing the game in earnest like that, Tina glances at the clock hanging on the wall.
Current time is 5 PM.
And the time she always has dinner is 6 PM.
Therefore, is it practically like having about 1 hour of spare time.
“If it's about 1 hour well... it would be perfect to use for learning controls.”
Like that, Tina smiled broadly and clicked the game start button in earnest—
And a while later.
“...Huh?”
Suddenly lifting her head and checking the clock, the clock hanging on the wall was currently pointing to 4 PM.
“...?”
For a moment, Tina unintentionally tilted her head.
What on earth is this?
Wasn't it clearly 5 PM just a moment ago?
But why is the clock pointing to 4 PM?
Don't tell me did planetary warming... no, dimensional warming make the sense of time strange?
If not that, did someone among dragons develop magic that reverses time?
However, that was also momentary, Tina could realize what on earth the truth was.
“The clock didn't go back 1 hour but... I played for 23 hours without resting while sitting...?”
What is this.
Don't tell me this wasn't a game but a time machine?
Give it back, my time.