ps: Parallel Blue Star (no world war history) (advocates anti-war) (constructed for survival)
Great Xia Federation.
Donghai City.
On the top floor of a downtown skyscraper, Zhao Ming was filled with shock as he looked at the variety of transport drones flying outside the window and the hundreds of meters high energy tower standing in the city center.
Everywhere there were anti-war slogans and some game advertisements.
A cool breeze swept in from the window.
The shock in Zhao Ming's eyes gradually subsided, and he couldn't help but take a deep breath:
"Hiss—"
"Damn it... Is there really a parallel world?"
Zhao Ming turned his head to look at the reflection in the window glass, and the person in the reflection not only looked exactly like him but also had the exact same name. What's more absurd is... this guy almost jumped off the building too.
Why say 'almost'?
Because his parallel self hesitated before jumping off the building.
While on Earth, he had already landed by that time.
It seems he was still faster.....
Zhao Ming recalled the memories in the mind of his parallel self, unable to stop a toothache.
Different from himself.
He had gambled all his assets on making a movie and ended up losing everything.
In this world, his parallel self had gambled all his assets on developing a game to participate in the Anti-War Competition held jointly by the Six Major Federations.
According to the memories Zhao Ming retrieved from his mind, this world was called Blue Star.
Besides the Great Xia Federation, there were also the Free Star Cluster Federation, the Golden Moon Federation, the Antarctic Star Federation, the Slavic Energy Federation, and the Yadong United Federation, and this world had never experienced a world war.
Four hundred years ago, a meteor shower descended upon Blue Star.
Battering Blue Star full of scars.
But after the meteor shower, it seemed as if the humans of Blue Star suddenly became enlightened, constantly inventing and creating, advancing from the agrarian era to the industrial era at an extremely fast pace.
Then they discovered countless new energy sources underground, leaping into the era of technology.
To this day.
Maglevs, drones, have become commonplace. Virtual helmets, sensory cabins, which were neither popularized nor perfected on Earth, are already widespread in this world.
The technology in this world is highly advanced.
Just the photon supercomputing cluster in Donghai City alone, with the computing power per cabinet reaching 380 ZFLOPS, has already reached 300 times the total annual computing power of Earth in 2024.
It's enough to enable most people to independently design and render movies, games, and so on.
And this is just a municipal-level photon supercomputing cluster.
The original owner gambled all the assets left by his parents, sold them for about thirty million Federation Coins, and roped in a partner from whom he got another thirty million. All were poured into the design of a game to participate in the Federation's Anti-War Competition.
Although it's called an Anti-War Competition, it's actually a project launched by the Six Major Federations to appease the public.
In this world, due to rapid technological updates, transitioning from agrarian to industrial, and from industrial to the discovery of new energy to enter the tech era took hardly any time.
So at that time, each federation was busy researching new technologies, with no time to go to war.
Moreover, with nearly infinite new energy available, why start a war?
Focus on developing new technologies quickly.
After the massive outbreak of technology, decades had passed.
By then, life was affluent, and with photosynthetic factories powered by new energy, the food and clothing issue was resolved, but people suddenly found themselves with nothing to do.
The crime rates of various federations soared.
Some even clamored for war, shouting slogans for world unification.
For a while.
The war fervor among the citizens of the Six Major Federations boiled, with protests springing up wanting the Federations to start a war, causing quite a stir during that period.
Later, to appease the public.
After a period of research, the Six Major Federations jointly launched the Anti-War Competition.
The competition is divided into categories like films, games, novels, dramas, short plays, etc., with over ten different categories of entries, as long as you have an extraordinary imagination and genius creativity.
You can make use of the Federations' low-cost photon supercomputing clusters.
Both individuals and groups can create the necessary work to enter the competition.
The ranking of the entries is determined by public votes, and winning the championship grants unlimited honor and support.
The Anti-War Competition has been held for over 300 years.
Every year, individuals or companies who achieve unparalleled glory manage to either ascend instantly or grow stronger; this has become a necessary annual event on Blue Star.
And contestants participate just to obtain fixed support and bonuses from the Federation.
For major categories like films, games, novels, the fixed prize is ten billion Federation Coins and a year of Federation promotion, while smaller categories like short plays, and dramas have much smaller prize pools, only in the tens of millions.
The original owner entered in the 'game' category, aiming for the championship prize and a year's Federation promotion.
The reason he threw in sixty million Federation Coins with such confidence was because he felt his idea was great. Otherwise, he couldn't have attracted investment from another partner, and the original owner established a company.
Part of the funds was used to purchase servers, and the rest bought computing power from the photon supercomputing cluster.
He hired some staff, and in eight months.
They created the game 'Cyber Blue Star: 2077', telling a story of a future Blue Star that encounters a long-planned terrorist attack, collapsing the fragile rule of the Six Major Federations in one fell swoop.
Society falls into chaos and unrest, various forces rise in power amidst ongoing warfare.
The gap between rich and poor in society begins to widen unprecedentedly.
Players need to play as wanderers, wandering the wastelands, scavenging for scraps, exchanging them for resources, allowing players to experience how hard life is after war, thereby reducing people's clamorous consciousness for war.
The concept was quite good, and the game was made quite well too.
But....
It got copied.
The news came in yesterday, and the ledge was where he intended to jump today.
Why jump?
Because even filing a lawsuit wouldn't help; a small workshop got its game copied by one of the top 500 enterprises of the Federation.
Both the investment and the game content.
Everything got expanded tenfold beyond its original foundations, in other words....
Comparing the two games on the market.
A hundred out of a hundred people would say the game 'Cyber Blue Star: 2077' made by the original owner is an inferior knockoff, even if he holds the copyright.
On Earth, reversal through special effects or details, etc., might happen.
But on Blue Star.... in this era of surplus computing power, whatever effect could have been achieved just by spending enough money, having his game copied with ten times the capital, the original version upon release would undoubtedly die a complete death.
Is there a reason not to jump off?
Zhao Ming walked back to his desk, leaned on the executive chair, and looked at the time on the computer.
There are nine days left before the Anti-War Competition opens.
Switching to the 'film' section is impossible since registration is long closed, and besides, the company employees specialize in making games, making a film isn't realistic.
To turn the tables.
It's necessary to create a new game to replace 'Cyber Blue Star: 2077' within nine days.
But 'Cyber Blue Star: 2077' was made by a team led by the original owner over eight months, to construct a vast universe and multiplayer online servers.
Nearly all sixty million Federation Coins were consumed, even the purchased photon supercomputing cluster computing power is nearly exhausted.
Making a new game for the competition is almost impossible.
Moreover....
He's a filmmaker, he doesn't know anything about making games.
In his past life, he did hear his roommates in college discuss games like 'Battlefield', 'Black Myth', 'One Slash 999', but he never played them, only heard about them.
He doesn't even know what type of games those are.
How the hell is he supposed to do it?
How could a filmmaker dive into making a game?
Zhao Ming sighed, leaning helplessly on the executive chair, gazing at the ceiling.
Anti-war... Anti-war...
He knew quite a lot about anti-war films.
To make the public feel the cruelty of war and eliminate war consciousness, World War II films from Earth would definitely be the first choice.
But it's not possible to make those WWII movies into games, right?
....
....
Huh?
Make WWII movies into games?!
Whoa?!
This might work?!