"What??? You want to make your own game??!!"
Inside Ke Jin's room.
After hearing Ke Jin's ambitious entrepreneurial plans, Ke Yu's voice suddenly rose by several decibels.
Her dewy little mouth slightly agape, a look of utter astonishment hanging on her delicate and eye-catching little face.
In her amber eyes, a disbelief shone bright.
Tell me, didn't that just blind you!
It wasn't just surface-level surprise—Ke Yu felt inward panic, too.
Oh no, oh no!
It seemed her elder brother had really been dazed by the successive job interview rejections.
Not to mention that the current video game market is highly competitive.
Just the very act of making games... if Dad found out, he would probably break Mr. Ke's legs.
The Ke Family had quite a fraught history with the gaming industry.
Ke Jin's grandfather had been a game developer back in the '70s and '80s when electronic computers had just begun to be utilized.
Sir Ke, then a college student, began to explore how to enhance the entertainment value of games on computers.
Given the limited performance of machines back then, most games leaned heavily on numbers and code.
But Sir Ke carried on undaunted, toiling for over a decade until he finally made a significant name for himself.
With his close friends, he started a game company called 'Blue Ocean Paradise,' which shot to fame overnight and garnered millions of fans.
That company remains one of the leading game enterprises on Blue Star even today.
However, due to various reasons unknown to Ke Jin and Ke Yu, Sir Ke's eventual downfall was getting ousted from that very game company, saddled with a series of lawsuits and a huge debt.
At just over forty, he fell into depression and passed away.
Since then, Ke Jin's father strictly kept his children away from games.
Even going so far as to become enraged and anxious at the mere mention of them.
Fearing his children might develop an interest in the gaming industry and follow in their grandfather's footsteps due to the Ke Family's inherited honest nature.
Although the siblings never met their grandfather and didn't know what specifically had happened back then,
they were vaguely aware that the word 'game' was taboo in the Ke household.
"Bro, the companies you've been interviewing with recently, they wouldn't happen to be..."
"Yeah, they're all game companies," Ke Jin nodded.
"But didn't you major in civil engineering in college?"
"That was to deceive mom and dad. Construction's construction, whether it's in the real world or games... there isn't much difference," Ke Jin shifted his gaze awkwardly and chuckled with a dry cough.
Ke Yu immediately scuffed the floor with her foot, dragging her rolling chair far away from Ke Jin as if to urgently take cover, shaking her head repeatedly.
"I can't help at all, I'm still a kid, my spine is still growing, I can't bear such a heavy burden."
Ke Jin: "..."
"Don't be so quick to reject it."
"Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't..." Ke Yu covered her ears and continued to shake her head as Ke Jin's tone suddenly became formal and serious.
"At least listen to some of my ideas about making games. If you still don't want to afterwards, I won't say another word."
In the moment Ke Yu was stunned, Ke Jin began to talk at length.
He wove the masterpieces of the Ninth Art he had experienced in his past life into ongoing pictorial narratives.
As the girl's expression slowly shifted from resistance to a dazed look, he gradually unfolded the narratives for her, narrating gently.
In a world known as the Borderlands, where the fading embers of predecessors still glowed, the Fading One embarked on a quest for truth, fighting with sword in hand, only to lose his temper and step into the blaze of madness, willing to destroy all laws just to keep the witch—who was about to sacrifice herself for stability—alive.
Then there was the Finch family, seemingly cursed to suffer peculiar deaths one after another. Edith Finch, as the last heir of the family, returned to that cursed old family house to uncover the truth of the curse, only to accidentally stumble upon a heartwarming interpretation of death, interwoven and brought together by love.
In the free land of Hyrule Continent, the knight Link, with the Sword of bravery, embarked on a brave adventure to rescue Princess Zelda.
In a world shrouded by yellow sand, a traveler led by the wind illustrated the Strength of legacy through sacrifice.
Born amidst the trees, the sprite sought light to illuminate the entire gloomy forest; if the world were devoid of fireflies, the sprite itself would become the light to shine upon the entire forest.
There was also Stardew Valley, a comfortably pleasant small town where farming was also full of fun and challenges.
In a block-built world, solitude would become a blade, one day destined to strike down the evil dragon.
Starting from the first sprout of life under the sea, the progress of human civilization could be constantly interwoven with any insignificant event and rewritten.
Even if humanity turned into zombies, heartening tales of love and bravery still existed.
And the vast cosmic dream of the starry sea, where humanity's stars shone brightly.
Beyond these, many more creative and wildly imaginative gaming concepts were continuously flowing from Ke Jin, utterly immersed in his presentation.
Involuntarily, Ke Yu became captivated.
Her bright eyes twinkled with an immense yearning.
"These... are they really games? Can these be made... Is this what games are supposed to be?" she muttered, somewhat absentmindedly.