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Episode 54

“What did you make?”

“So… … it’s a game.”

I know that too.

I am the president of a game company, this is the president’s office, and the person in front of me is the head of the development team.

The intention of my question was to confirm that I had just heard correctly.

“Let me ask you again. What did your subordinates say they made?”

“… … I made a game based on the CEO. Oh, no, of course I didn’t make it while working, but rather as a hobby using my spare time. ”

I don’t know why the staff spent their precious free time making a game modeled after me, but I’m not really upset since they made it as a hobby.

“Is that so?”

So, I just showed a reaction of “I guess that’s how it is”, but the development team leader lowered his head in confusion, wondering how he had misunderstood this.

“Oh, please forgive me! They are excellent employees! I will make sure that this kind of thing never happens again, so can you just take a pay cut? ”

The development team leader looked at me as he said the word salary cut. But I had no intention of punishing him with a salary cut or anything like that from the beginning.

Rather, it’s a bit shocking that he seems like such a heartless person.

I’m doing a good job, but I’m doing a good job.

“I don’t have anything to say, so just raise your head.”

“, thank you! ”

As I spoke, sighing slightly in disappointment, the head of the development team leader suddenly rose.

You look so happy when I tell you it’s okay. I guess you thought I was going to discipline you.

“By the way, I’m curious about that game. What exactly is it?”

I thought that saying that it was modeled after me meant that it was made to resemble the face modeling to some extent.

Since it’s something I made as a hobby, it’s probably not a AAA game, but if it’s something in the action genre or souls-like, I thought it wouldn’t be a bad idea to collect it as a souvenir.

If it had better quality than expected, we were even considering supporting it at the company level and releasing it.

“That’s it.”

What was displayed on the screen of the phone that the development team leader handed me was a type of game I could never have imagined.

“… … Boyfriend Maker?”

I rubbed my eyes and looked again.

Unfortunately, I was not mistaken.

Now I understand why the development team leader was so anxious.

Are these guys making a female-oriented novel based on their company’s president?

“Are these guys by any chance… … ”

“Oh, no! That’s not it! But, uh, what should I say? I did say something crazy about receiving a revelation in a dream on the same day… … ”

Sure, I’d heard somewhere that creators can’t stand not making things they find fun, but I never thought I’d be the one.

It’s even more absurd because the quality is so good.

“Hmm. Can I try it for a bit?”

“Yes, yes!”

I took a quick look at the game on the development team leader’s phone, who nodded hurriedly.

The game itself was simple: the player had to raise her boyfriend into a career of her choice.

The types of jobs I could have were uselessly diverse, from my real jobs like model, actor, and CEO, to criminal ones like mafia, yakuza, and assassin.

Assuming that what the development team leader said about the revelations received by the employees is true, I have a feeling I know who did it.

“There’s also gacha.”

“Yes, of course, since it is a demo version they made themselves, they say you don’t really have to spend money.”

The content of the gacha also varied.

It was possible to select items ranging from trinkets like clothes and accessories to cars and houses, and for some reason, even props that seemed to come out of fantasy and science fiction movies.

No matter how you look at it, it’s not something that can be made overnight. When on earth did you start making it?

“The employees say it started right after the president’s inauguration ceremony.”

I’d be lying if I said I didn’t feel a little taken aback, but like I said before, I still have no intention of doing anything about it.

If it’s something they made as a hobby, what’s the big deal? If they made it for fun and to play with among themselves, it’s probably better not to touch it.

“Please tell them that it’s okay as long as they don’t get too absorbed in it and it interferes with their work.”

“Yes! Thank you!”

The development team leader expressed his sincere gratitude and left the CEO’s office. I, too, treated it as a minor incident, saying that such things happen in life.

It was during a business meeting the very next day that I learned that wasn’t the case.

“Boss! Please release this officially!”

“Are you crazy?”

At first, the company executives who heard the news thought he was joking.

But everyone had such serious eyes and no one was smiling.

Are these people serious?

“We played it too, and this is no ordinary item!”

“It works! This is definitely a good idea!”

“There is no reason not to!”

There are many reasons. The most important one at the top is my shame.

What kind of torture is it for the president of a gaming company to release a game modeled after himself?

“The embarrassment is temporary, but the results will last forever!”

“I disagree. The results are temporary, but the shame is permanent.”

I dismissed it as not even worth thinking about and wanted to move on to the next agenda, but when Gyul-woo turned off the lights in the conference room, saying she had prepared a presentation for me, I realized that things were not going well.

I’m really going to die.

“I understand what you are concerned about. It is clear that the pre-sale market itself has passed its prime and is in a slump, and even the occasional releases are mostly of poor quality. However, I hope you will take a look here.”

No, I don’t know about that, I just hate it because I’m being treated like shit.

But no one understood my heart.

Not only did they not notice, but cheers erupted everywhere whenever Gyul-woo pointed to the forecast numbers with a laser pointer.

Should I just cut them all off?

“Let’s do it, sir!”

“No.”

I refused in the end and ran away back home, but that day, even my home was not a place of rest.

“Brother! Let’s make this! No, make it! I’ll take full responsibility for the sales!”

“How about adding a deserted island stage? So that it’s just the two of us.”

“Excuse me, if it’s okay, I’d like to make the player’s occupation an idol… … ”

While I was struggling, I got a phone call.

[Please make it.]

There’s no need to even think about how the girlfriends found out.

… … Kim Gyul-wool, you two years old.

The situation showed no signs of ending even after time passed. For several days, I suffered from demands pouring in from all sides.

“Sigh.”

In the end, I had to stamp my approval on the payment request form.

My small, pointless protest was to allow players to name their boyfriends.

Since the game was already nearly complete, we started preparing for release as soon as the green light was given.

When the game was released later.

I shouted to myself while looking at the App Store screen in the CEO’s office.

“Why is this selling so well!”

—

[Boy Friend Maker Review]

As an aside, Lee Sun-woo’s girlfriends didn’t neglect him while playing games.

Rather than neglecting him, I became so immersed in the game’s story that my longing and love for the real Lee Seon-woo grew, to the point where I would barge in on him even while he was sleeping at night.

Although this game could only be seen as extremely harmful from Lee Seon-woo’s perspective, the company’s position was different.

Boy Friend Maker has surpassed Hymega’s flagship game Brave Romancia in both app store rankings and sales.

Both games can be enjoyed without any problems even without paying, depending on the owner’s wishes, and there is not even a ranking element, but even so, people are competitive animals.

As everyone started posting articles and pictures on the official cafe, claiming that their boyfriend was the best, the competition became so heated that it became unmanageable.

In such a situation, the ones who suffer the most are, of course, the women who had been inadvertently involved with the real Lee Seon-woo.

“Ugh. Bloody fist, this guy did it again. How much does he spend a day? Is it true that he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth?”

Seoyoung Oh, who was looking back and forth between the picture posted by the official cafe named and the game screen on her phone, started to cry.

Boyfriend Maker, who you might think must have been created by God, became the perfect replacement for Oh Seo-young, who always missed Lee Sun-woo.

But that’s all. Oh Seo-young was just an ordinary college student who was too good of a person to dress up her boyfriend on screen.

“It’s okay. Even simplicity has its own charm!”

Even though she didn’t have a house or a car, Oh Seo-young was relatively happy because she could laugh and be happy just by existing.

Because the female idols who stare at their phones with blank eyes in this dorm were each other’s competitors.

“… … Anyone got a special machine in the new gacha?”

“… … I still.”

“… … Me too.”

Competition tends to be more intense when there is an opponent right in front of you.

While Goo Yu-eun ran out saying she missed Lee Seon-woo while playing a game, the three people who were rejected from accompanying her were struggling to enjoy the uninhabited island event with Lee Seon-woo on the screen.

In order to open the deserted island event, I needed a special plane item that would crash, but it just wouldn’t appear, and I was going crazy.

“I can’t take it anymore! I’m going to do it again!”

“Huh?!”

“That’s a violation of the agreement!”

The agreement mentioned here refers to the guard line created by the leader, Gu Yu-eun, to calm down the members who were trying to throw all of the settlement money into the game.

But it had no meaning to Andahi, whose eyes had already turned red.

“How would you know that! Eun-unnie went to see Seon-woo oppa alone! We’re just going to have fun even in the game, so what!”

The soulful cry of the second member of the group touched the hearts of the third and youngest members who had been trying to dissuade her.

“Like!”

“I’ll do it too!”

“Yes! We are Britney! We are together, whether we have fun or fall down!”

All three pressed the payment button at the same time.

The youngest, Ryu Su-ah, was the only one on the private plane.

Even though she was beaten by her angry sisters, she was happy.