Chapter 2: Adaptation (2)

The icon that looked like Chrome was, in fact, Chrome when I ran it.
How is this possible?

Is there Chrome or Google here too?
I searched to be sure, but I couldn’t find anything related to the Earth I used to live on, no matter how much I looked.

I thought this was really absurd, but what if this is a status window or ability from a fantasy novel?
No, it doesn’t have to be impossible.

This situation is already absurd enough, wouldn’t it make sense if there was at least something like this?

However, there’s a way to confirm it for sure, just in case.

“Excuse me.”

I tapped the person next to me who looked like a crocodile, searching something.
I’m not a veterinarian or a trainer, so I’m not good at figuring out the crocodile’s expression, but I can’t fail to understand the other person’s feelings, even when I hear a voice filled with displeasure.

I often get told that I’m shameless, but it’s not like I lack common sense.

“What is it?”

“I’m a computer illiterate, but do you know what this icon is?”

“Just for something like that… Humans are a race that doesn’t know manners. Ask the library assistant about that.”

The crocodile-human left, saying that the temperature drops when looking at humans.
I wanted to say, “It’s summer, you idiot,” and immediately kick him in the neck, but I held back.

The crocodile’s weaknesses are its eyes and neck.
I didn’t want to show that crocodile the cold-blooded world where fists are more valuable than the law.

Because I’m merciful.

The fact that I forgave the crocodile isn’t that important.
The real important problem is that this place… or rather, this world, is very suspicious.

It’s said there’s no gunpowder, but this world has many parts that are similar to modern times and yet strangely behind.
Of course, there are also parts where this world is better, but I still couldn’t understand it.

This world had more wars than the place I used to live in, and there was even a war called the Thousand-Year War.
Despite having fought wars for so long, the development of weapons wasn’t that great, and the combat style seemed closer to the medieval period than to modern times, and anyone would know how strange this is.

There’s something called the war development theory.
The biggest reason why science develops in war is that the restrictions on investing in technology development are lifted.
Of course, it’s not that someone restricted or blocked investment, and the technology development period has financial difficulties, and since there’s no profit during that time, there are restrictions on investment.

But when war breaks out, all these problems disappear at once.
The jet engine was developed during World War II to make fighter planes, and the rockets that were made to blow up the enemy’s main facilities also sent humans to the moon when budgets were poured into them during the Cold War, didn’t they?

There were many inventions that wouldn’t have existed without war.
For example, when World War II began, the old biplanes were flying around, but just five years later, the jet engine was developed and even about to be deployed in actual combat.

Therefore, war sacrifices many humans, but it can be said to be a cause of technological development.
Ah, this is just a hypothesis.

Anyway, it’s strange that weapon development has been so slow despite the long wars.

And why are there only board games for games?
There are computers, and there are programmers in C language, but there are only board games?

That’s really strange.
Games are one of the oldest forms of human social communication, and as technology develops, the culture of play should also develop.

Hmm… I’ll have to find out more information about this problem later.
Anyway, studying is not an option, but a necessity, to adapt to this place.

Well, anyway, as a result of experimenting with Chrome, quite good results came out.

First, only I can see this app. And I experimented by switching seats, and the app reappears there when using another computer.
Second, I can use all the content of the Earth I lived on without any restrictions. Hmm, I’ll correct it. To be precise, I could enjoy all the content of the game without purchasing it.
Third, the modification and public disclosure of the purchased content is done according to my thoughts.

It’s not about changing the game itself, but just deleting small parts or changing the names, and the disclosure was about whether or not to release it to the people of this world.

I wanted to make the game I wanted, but I didn’t want to take that gamble in a situation where I might be kicked out by the landlord at any moment and be kicked out onto the streets of this world.

Since I’m in the United States, it’s said that it’s a bit dangerous at night, and the game I want to make is at least moving to Naperville, the safest city in the United States, or immigrating to another country.

And now that I’ve confirmed that this is a different world, I don’t have to be too careful about keeping my conscience, right?
But if I fill my selfish desires too much, my conscience will sting, so I decided to earn just enough to live on and use it for good things.

It’s too early to be thinking about donations, but.

But what masterpiece game should I surprise them with?
I don’t know if the people of this world, who hardly enjoy games themselves, will be enthusiastic about releasing a game, but I believe that masterpiece games have enough possibilities.
Of course, there were more things to see and more colorful things than the movies on Earth because there’s magic, but movies are movies and games have their own merits.

First, I decided to think about which game to release.
I want to release big things like StarCraft, The Legend of Zelda, Half-Life, Portal, and Diablo, but unfortunately, multi-player games were still almost impossible.

Multi-player games need servers and server programmers who manage the servers. Even on Earth, server programmers were only a very small number of all programmers, and there weren’t many people trying to do it.
I don’t have the money to get a server right now, and it’s hard to get such a precious server programmer right now.

I don’t think I can do the job properly even if I hire a programmer, since there’s no PC game at all.

This world doesn’t have good specs for home computers right now, so if I bring high-spec games and sell them, it’ll be a shame if I don’t end up in jail for fraud because they can’t be run, and computers are only used for office work…

But there are single player games that are masterpieces too.

I need a low-spec, addictive game, and after a moment of thought, I thought of a game that was once a sensational hit.
A game made by John Carmack, who made the famous statement that the story of the game is the same as the story in pornography, and a story about a demon slayer who makes the demon seem pitiful.

Doom

As John Carmack, the person who made it, said about the game’s story, the story was extremely brief, but the fun was outstanding.

At first, I thought of Super Mario or Minesweeper, but since I desperately need money right now, I decided to start with a bang.

I just hope that it will bring a game craze to this world again, just like it swept the game industry at that time.

Luminaire, the World Tree Guardian, hero of the Thousand-Year War, and director of the orphanage, all these titles were words that meant herself. She was proud of these honorable titles that were given to her in praise. But as time went on, she hoped that the feeling that these titles felt heavy was a delusion, but she couldn’t deny that she was getting more and more tired.

She fought for her country for a thousand years, but she couldn’t even dream of rest, as the paperwork piled up, and the politicians’ checks and jealousies exhausted her. Even when she processed the mountains of paperwork and thought she’d rest, the military demonstration by China, the Goblin nation, created more work for her.

For a thousand years, she had risked her life for her country, but the politicians were eager to tarnish her honor, and the people didn’t pass her, so lately, she rarely had a day when she wasn’t cursed. Well, it was her daily life to be called a vegan killer, a filthy elf, and a whore by the goblins, so she would pass over that, but the people shouldn’t have treated her like this.

She was cursed both inside and outside the country, and she worked for a thousand years without a break, and she was about to go crazy from stress.

One should know when to stop the dogs after they have done their job… but this was too cruel.
She didn’t even want to be treated as a war hero, but shouldn’t they at least not treat her like this?

“Luminaire-nim, I’ll leave the documents summarizing China’s demands here. And please process the new city development plan for the Spirit Forest area by tomorrow. I’ll go home now.”

“Okay.”

What are you going to do by eliminating the time-honored Spirit Forest?
‘You have to say what you want to say, Luminaire!’ She wanted to shout, but she didn’t have the courage or the will to do so anymore. Who would listen to her words these days, when even the passersby were cursing her?
If she had died in that war like her old comrades, she could have at least kept her honor, it was her mistake to just trust her own kind.

“Huuu… I’m tired. I don’t want to work.”

She lay down on the desk.
There’s no one here anyway, what does face matter?

“Should I watch a movie? There’s nothing to watch these days…”

The small deviation that began when even her secretary deserted her was to watch movies alone when she went home.
She watched movies every time she had free time, a hobby she had for the first time in her life. Of course, she had the big problem that there weren’t any more movies to watch because she had watched too many.

In the end, she turned off Netflix and stared blankly at the humor and cat memes, and at that moment, something different from usual appeared in the popular posts.

Game promotion?

She thought it was a new movie, but it was just a game… are these kinds of things taking up popular posts these days?
She went in and saw something that looked like a clumsy character.

Someone who looked like a human was shooting something from an iron object she had never seen before and killing grotesquely shaped monsters.

The writer ended the post with only the download link, saying it was a trial version.
Does he have any intention of promoting it?

Isn’t this a link that connects to a strange site?
She didn’t expect anything and was instead wary of the comments, but the response was surprisingly good, even explosive.

[Short-legged mole people: It was the first game that was so amazing. I thought games were all about chess or Wato Boka, but it felt like it showed me a new world in a good way.]

[Good-hearted Elves are dead: By the way, what are guns? The main character was shooting something, so I thought it was a crossbow, but it was shooting strange fireballs?]

[Not a Transparent Dragon: Magician?]

[Stop Hating the Human Race: No, the developer put in a brief setting. The gun is a device that shoots small iron pieces called bullets. Similar to a machine gun?]

[Fire School is Science: It’s their own world. It’s the first time I’ve seen this kind of fantasy.]

[LuminaireAm2: The killer Luminaire selling off the Spirit Forest is also fantasy. http://www.modiatoday.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=2356124]

[Og: Why do the elves treat their heroes like that?ㅋㅋㅋ After all, it’s not a hero that suits the elves. Even though they protect them all the time, they still do this.]

[Stop eating dog meat: F*ckㅋㅋㅋ Getting brainwashedㅋㅋㅋ Do the elves’ long ears exist only to hear what they want to hear?]

[Heuung: Talk about your country’s politics in your country~]

[ou: Your mom]

The response was so hot that she was slightly curious about the game, which she usually had no interest in.