P.S. Parallel Blue Star (no history of World Wars) (advocates anti-war) (fictional for self-preservation)
Great Xia Federation.
East Sea City.
Inside the top floor of a skyscraper in the city center, Zhao Ming watched with shock at the various transport drones flying outside the window, and the hundreds of meters tall energy tower standing in the city center.
Anti-war slogans were hung everywhere, along with some game GGs.
A cool breeze swept in from the window.
The shock in Zhao Ming's eyes gradually faded, and he couldn't help but gasp for air:
“Hiss––”
“Damn it… there really are parallel worlds?”
Zhao Ming turned his head to look at his reflection in the window glass. The person in the reflection not only looked exactly like him, but even had the same name. What was even more outrageous was… this guy had also almost jumped off a building.
Why “also”?
Because his parallel world self hesitated for a moment when he was about to jump.
While his Earth self had already landed by then.
Dying early meant transmigrating and materializing early… Zhao Ming recalled the memories in the mind of this parallel world self and couldn't help but wince.
Unlike himself.
He had bet his entire fortune on making a movie and lost everything.
His self in this world had bet his entire fortune on making a game, hoping to participate in the Anti-War Competition jointly held by the Six Great Federations.
According to the memories Zhao Ming found in 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 Antarctica Star Federation, the Slavic Energy Federation, and the Yadong United Federation. This world had never experienced a World War.
Four hundred years ago, a meteor shower descended upon Blue Star.
Leaving Blue Star ravaged.
But after the meteor shower, humanity on Blue Star seemed to have gained intelligence, constantly creating and inventing, rapidly transitioning from the agricultural age into the industrial age.
Subsequently, countless new energy sources were discovered deep within Blue Star, leading to the technological age.
To this day.
Things like maglev trains and drones were already commonplace. Virtual reality helmets and haptic cabins, which were not widespread or perfected on Earth, were already ubiquitous in this world.
The technology in this world was extremely advanced.
Just the Photon Supercomputing Cluster in East Sea City alone had a single cabinet computing power of 380 ZFLOPS, reaching 300 times the total computing power of Earth in 2024.
This was enough to support most people in independently designing and rendering movies, games, and so on.
And this was just a municipal Photon Supercomputing Cluster.
The original owner had invested all the assets left by his parents, which, after being sold, amounted to about 30 million federal currency. He also brought in a partner who contributed another 30 million, all of which was poured into the game he designed to participate in the Federation's Anti-War Competition.
Although called the Anti-War Competition, it was actually a project launched by the Six Great Federations to appease the public.
Due to the rapid technological advancements in this world, the transition from agriculture to industry, and from industry to the discovery of new energy and entry into the technological age, took very little time.
Therefore, the Major Federations at that time were all busy researching new technologies and had no time for war.
Moreover, with almost infinite new energy, why fight?
They focused on developing new technologies.
By the time the surge in technology passed, several decades had already gone by.
At this point, life was affluent, and with new energy sources like photosynthetic factories, the problem of hunger was solved. However, people suddenly found themselves idle and with nothing to do.
Crime rates in various federations soared.
Some even clamored for war, world unification, and other slogans.
For a time.
The populations of the Six Great Federations were stirred into a frenzy of war consciousness, demonstrating and demanding that the Federations wage war. That period saw quite a lot of trouble.
Later, to appease the public.
After a period of research, the Six Great Federations jointly launched the Anti-War Competition.
The competition was divided into more than a dozen categories such as 【Film】, 【Game】, 【Novel】, 【Drama】, 【Short Drama】, etc. As long as you had extraordinary imagination and brilliant creativity.
You could use the low-cost Photon Supercomputing Cluster within the Federation.
Individuals or groups could create works for the competition.
The ranking of entries was determined by public votes. The winner would receive infinite honor and support.
The Anti-War Competition had been held for over three hundred years.
Every year, individuals or companies gained immense honor, either rising to prominence or expanding significantly. By now, it had become an indispensable annual event on Blue Star.
And the contestants were merely competing for the fixed support and prize money from the Federation.
For major categories like 【Film】, 【Game】, and 【Novel】, the fixed prize money was one billion federal currency and one year of Federation publicity. For smaller categories like 【Short Drama】 and 【Drama】, the prize money was much less, only tens of millions.
The original owner participated in the 【Game】 category, aiming for the champion's prize money and one year of Federation publicity.
The reason he was so confident in investing 60 million federal currency was because he believed his idea was excellent. Otherwise, if it wasn't good, he wouldn't have attracted investment from another partner. The original owner established a company.
He used some of the funds to purchase servers, and the rest was spent on computing power from the Photon Supercomputing Cluster.
He hired some staff and spent eight months.
They created the game cyber blue star: 2077, which tells the story of a future Blue Star that suffers a long-planned terrorist attack, collapsing the fragile rule of the Six Great Federations.
Society becomes chaotic and unstable, various forces rise, and wars are incessant.
The gap between rich and poor in society widens to an unprecedented degree.
Players need to play as wanderers, roaming the badlands, scavenging for scrap, and exchanging it for supplies, allowing players to experience how difficult life is after war, thereby reducing people's clamor for war.
The idea was very good, and the game was also very well made.
But… it was plagiarized.
He found out the news yesterday, and he planned to jump today.
Why did he want to jump?
Because even suing wouldn't help; a small workshop was plagiarized by a Federation top 500 enterprise.
Whether it was the investment or the game content.
Everything was expanded by more than ten times based on his original work. In other words… if these two games were put on the market for comparison.
Out of a hundred people, one hundred would say that the original owner's cyber blue star: 2077 was a counterfeit, and having copyright would be useless.
On Earth, there might be works that achieve a comeback due to special effects or details.
But on Blue Star… in this era of overflowing computing power, as long as enough money is invested, there's no effect that can't be achieved. With someone plagiarizing his game with ten times the funds, his original version, once released, would definitely be dead in the water.
How could he not jump off a building? Zhao Ming walked back to his office desk, sat down in the boss's chair, and leaned back, looking at the time on the computer.
There were nine days left until the opening of the Anti-War Competition.
Switching to the 【Film】 track was impossible; registration had long since closed. Moreover, the company's employees were all game developers, so making a movie was also unrealistic.
To turn the tables.
He had to create a new game within nine days to replace cyber blue star: 2077.
However, cyber blue star: 2077 was made by the original owner leading a group of people, taking eight months to complete, to build a vast world view and multiplayer online servers.
Sixty million federal currency was almost entirely depleted, and even the purchased Photon Supercomputing Cluster computing power was running low.
Creating a new game to participate was almost impossible.
Besides… he was a filmmaker, he didn't understand anything about games.
In his previous life, he had heard his roommates discuss games like Battlefield, Black Myth, and One-Hit 999 in college, but he had never played them, only heard about them second-hand.
He didn't even know what type of games they were.
How the hell was he supposed to do this?
He was a filmmaker; how was he supposed to make a game?
Zhao Ming sighed, leaning back in the boss's chair, staring blankly at the ceiling.
Anti-war… anti-war… he knew quite a few anti-war themed movies.
If he wanted the public to feel the cruelty of war and eliminate war consciousness, then Earth's World War II series of movies would definitely be the first choice.
But he couldn't just turn those World War II movies into games, could he?
…Hmm?
Turn World War II movies into games?!
Holy crap?!
This actually seems possible?!