Chapter 5: Recruiting employees (1)
The meeting with the developer of Doom, who heated up the internet so much, was unexpected.
That he would be human.
I didn’t think he would be human, at least not like Doomguy.
After the Great War, the number of humans remaining was small, and even the remaining humans were severely discriminated against or threatened with their lives, and it wasn’t much different now.
The recognition that racial discrimination is bad began only after a long time, and the situation is better now that the species rights movement has begunā¦ but the number of humans has already reached a level where it is difficult to avoid extinction.
For the short-lived species, the post-war generation, humans were just pitiful species who died without sin, and for the long-lived species who remember the old times, humans were a race who did not hesitate to commit terrible things, so it was natural for their opinions to clash, and many races are still discussing, but there is no accurate answer to solve racial discrimination.
No, it probably won’t come out in the future either.
Even in the United States, which is called the country of immigrants, isn’t there a lot of conflict and racial discrimination between races?
As an orc, a representative of the short-lived species, I felt worry, not hatred, for him.
This is Oakland, a city on the eastern coast of the San Francisco Bay, in the notoriously dangerous state of California.
This city’s public safety was so bad that it was ridiculed as a world of demons.
In some areas, most of the people walking on the streets are gangs, and even in the situation of budget shortages, there are areas where the police station has withdrawn due to the high risk of work.
It’s highly likely that ordinary people will meet a robber if they walk on the streets, so most people take cars, and especially in some areas, magical incidents often occur at night, so it’s hard to say that it’s safe even if you take a car.
You could easily see people being hurt after moving in without knowing that the house prices are cheap.
The area where he lives is relatively safe in Oaklandā¦ but to my eyes, who have become a fan, it looked like he was thrown into hell.
First, I should do the interview.
I’ll ask about his residence after the interview.
The interview with himā¦ Mr. Kuhn, which was conducted after introducing ourselves, was quite shocking.
He developed that enormous game alone, and isn’t its volume considerable?
Unlike what everyone had expected, who had predicted that he had developed it for a long time, the time it took for him to develop it was only half a yearā¦ no, even that was due to practical reasons, and it took half a year.
The practical reason is the money problem, right?
He developed a game in half a year that might be successful, and it’s Doom.
Even news of a new game!
Kuhn was a great person, more than I thought.
And as if mocking me who was so impressed with just that much, Kuhn poured out even greater things.
“Of course. It’s rather strange that games haven’t developed until now. Games will surely take on one side of the culture.”
“I’m going to patent the technology created while developing Doom. And I’ll release the source code of Doom without exercising the patent rights.”
“First, to prevent someone from stealing the technologies of Doom and the games to come, and then registering the patent as it is. Second, I don’t want a company that has registered the patent to ruin the development of the game industry through patent lawsuits against other companies.”
What is a company?
Isn’t a company doing production activities for profit?
Kuhn’s actions were… more than unconventional, they were close to eccentric.
I studied to build a basic knowledge to get into the game industry here.
And the knowledge that I’ve accumulated a little allowed me to know how magnanimous Kuhn’s remarks were.
Saying he will release the source code means he will release everything about the game.
How the game was made, and what code plays what role, all of that.
And he won’t exercise the patent rights?
The reason is because he’s afraid that other companies will steal the technology, register a patent, and ruin the development of the game industry through the patent?
He must want to move to another place, living in this hellish city.
He must be in a hurry to make money right now, and he might have wanted to earn money since he knew that he had gained this much popularity.
But he didn’t do that.
Kuhn’s eyes were filled with enthusiasm.
I could understand his intentions now.
He doesn’t want profit.
He truly worried about the future of the game industry and wanted it to develop.
He opened up the technology of Doom, creating a textbook for the sprouts who dream of becoming game developers and paving the way for them!
It sounds crazy, but for me, who was deeply into Doom and entered the game industry, Kuhn’s remarks heated up my heart, and it seemed to give me confidence.
The bright future of the game industry and the birth of a master who will lead the game industry in the future.
And I’m grateful for being able to witness such a historical scene.
I wasn’t sure if it was a good choice to give up my stable job and jump into the game industry.
Who could abandon their existing job and jump into an industry that’s just starting?
But now, I could be sure.
It was the best choice of my life.
The living sun.
The terminator of the Great War.
Explosive Dragon.
These were all the names that called her.
And she, a long-lived dragon of thousands of years, a living history, was now deeply into games.
The reason why she fell into games was because she was the oldest of the long-lived species, dragons, and because of that, she was always lonely and couldn’t stand boredom.
And the biggest reason was that she had exhausted all the things to enjoy while spending a long time.
At first, she ignored it.
She had played games like chess for hundreds of years, and she judged that there were no more elements to enjoy.
So she was going to ignore it, but was it because she was particularly bored that day?
Or was it because of the recommended posts that kept coming up on the internet?
She was downloading and running the newly released hit game.
It was a worldview that was hard to understand.
And the game, which started without much explanation and with a weapon she didn’t know, was unfriendly and difficult to understand.
At least they should explain it.
But something was strange.
Iron pieces shot from a strange iron cannon called a gun.
The demons exploding and the sound of gunfire echoing clearly.
Yes, she was too deeply into the new technology of games, which she was playing for the first time.
“A chainsaw! Okay, let’s find some meat to cut! But what is electricity?”
“Health…!”
“Cyberdemon… why doesn’t it die…! Ugh!”
Bang! Bang! Bang!
She, who had been furiously hitting the keyboard with her fists, skillfully took out a new keyboard and started the game again.
This was the first shotgun in this world.
But a dragon is a creature whose life is time.
Time is what she has, and time is the least valuable thing.
In the end, she cleared the trial version and rested for a while.
“I want to play moreā¦ When will the official version come out?”
She had found something that taught her what vitality was in her life, and she didn’t want to delay it even for a moment.
And the date of the official version that she quickly checked gave her a sense of despair.
“A weekā¦? Are you really saying the week I knowā¦?”
She was accustomed to waiting, as she was called the species of waitingā¦ but isn’t this too much?
She was deeply into something for the first time in her life, and the person who made it was only one person, and she had to wait another week for the official version?
No, even that was unreliable information.
It’s not a lie, but wouldn’t there be a situation where the release date is postponed because of unexpected variables?
Things that were popular have always been difficult to obtain, and many variables tend to arise.
I can’t stand it.
There’s no more waiting.
I can’t wait anymore!
The news that the official version would be released in a week was enough time to get me to take action.
First of all, I have to gather information about the developer.
What the hell.
I only have to solve the problem of making a living and live a good life, but why is this happening?
It was one day before the official release, and there was a situation where strange people were breaking into my home.
And that, in a country where self-defense is lenient, and even if you shoot at someone who breaks into your home, it’s recognized as self-defense to some extent!
And the most important problem is that I don’t have a gun.
Of course, I can’t have one!
There are no guns on this Earth!
There’s no way to stop the opponent who’s trying to come in right now.
“Is anyone there?”
It was an attitude and a statement that was full of shamelessness, as if it was his own house.
I was hiding under the desk, firmly vowing that I would definitely move after getting through this crisis.
“Ah, I should be polite. Would you open the door?”
Since I didn’t respond, that strange person gave up trying to enter the house, and soon, the sign of someone disappeared.
“Whew.”
“Indeed, isn’t there!”
Crash!
The intruder, who broke down the door, was a beautiful woman with long, golden hair and horns.