1 Chapter One

He was pretty sure that this was not meant to happen; the clicking sounds and the smell of burnt wires told him the result of 3 hours of work and $30. He had been carrying out a DIY project he saw on YouTube, so in the effort to cut down on costs and a spark of creativity, he looked for other materials to replace the most expensive parts and now this was the result. So much for innovation and YouTube streamers.

Wood for plastic, Copper wires for silver wires and a laser cutter for a 3D printer and that was all it took to create an abomination and as he looked at what was meant to pay for his meals he went cross-eyed. He was at this position because of his decisions. He had opportunities to better his life even though they were not palatable, a job at the local store, a job as the pizza delivery and even a job as a film technician. He just hated the thought of working for someone, at times.

At the thought of marketing, he decided that there was no way he was going to brand it with his logo, but the least he could do was justice to it. He took its picture and went to his room, in contrast with the rest of the house apart from the kitchen, while his house was clean, it was not furnished, his room was luxuriously furnished, and the real masterpiece was the laptop that sat on the table. The slim and smooth surface gave no hint that it was created by yours truly, housing serious power, added with the logo on it, it transcended to a whole new level.

Sending the picture to his laptop was easy, it was the editing of the picture that was the hard part and with only thirty minutes into it, he was already seeing double. He stood up from his chair, heading for the freezer to grab something to eat. With a bowl of porridge in hand, he saw a message on the laptop screen and he was furious, he could recognize that advert anyway, it was an advert for a game, it had been reigning for some time now, and he had expected the rave over it to die for some time now. For the company to keep advertising for so long, money, time, effort would have to be exhausted, all which he did not have, well except effort.

eNNOVO was created by iNNOVO Inc. in the year 3023, as a giant in the gaming industry, it had promised completely immersive game play and near infinite possibilities complete with real-time updates.

He was disappointed, he had expected a more personalized ad, perhaps, Google personalization was all for nothing, he moved to close the ad In this age, ads had now evolved to the extent of placing the close buttons on the bottom of the page, still infuriated, he scrolled down. He skimmed across the page; all he got was that players could make money by selling in-game items and selling it for crypto-currency which they could later convert to money. So much stress.

Anyway, he did not believe in such things, it was either that they did not work in your location, or you had to pay money to get money or seriously bad customer service. He closed the ad and shut down his computer, he needed to sleep anyway, tomorrow was school and he wanted to get to school early, reputation and all that and he had only two hours to seven o'clock.