In less than a month, Harold had come to be accepted by everyone .
That was because the unwritten law of the company – “The programmer rules” – worked . It meant that the one who can build the right program at any time was correct . Harold was an excellent programmer without complaint . Almost everyone on the team acknowledged it .
He could not fully master English . He always talked in frustratingly jumbled words .
He was modest and gentle enough to appear timid, but behind that was a core strength that was hard for others to notice .
The program he wrote was very similar to him . A program often has the character or personality of the programmer who wrote it . What programs have they read so far? What kind of programs have they written? When you see what they see, it becomes obvious .
His program seemed trivial and seemed to be imitable to anyone, but upon closer inspection, it was flawless . The code that completed the operations was implemented .
Harold himself was that type of man .
In other words, he seemed not to be a remarkable person at first glance, but he was, in fact, a kind of man who was much more than he appeared to be .
By the end of September, he was called ‘Hal’ by everyone according to the American style .
Nika had been assigned the role of Hal’s mentor after being first introduced at the company .
Reviewing his program and submitting it to Kirsh was part of her daily routine .
It was Nika’s secret pleasure to see Hal’s work earlier than anyone on the team .
Hal’s program was always correct . It was beautiful as well . Nika was overwhelmed by its refined genius .
Hal had already created the basic system for the game . He had built it to a state where there was almost no room for improvement .
All that was left was to build a distributed server system and use development tools to set up areas, events, NPCs, and some more . Harold seemed to have potential as a game designer .
There was only one issue, the company president found a fault in Hal’s project . It was concerning the title of the game . Hal’s proposal was “Twilight,” but the president shook his head and would not accept it .
“It’s too boring . It’s not suitable for a massively multiplayer online role playing game . ”
That was the president’s statement .
In October he said this in a discussion for a pre-production version .
“I think using one word is fine, but it’s a whole new massively multiplayer online role-playing game that’s been created in a year and a half, isn’t it? It’s no good for such a game . ”
“I’ll repeat that,” muttered Kirsch .
“I love it, because it’s a massively multiplayer online role playing game, after all,” said McGavin
The president ignored the two of them .
“I would rather have a title like Pluto’s Kiss than Twilight . Please suggest more titles like that . ”
Hal had been a bit nervous about the title proposal ever since then .
Eventually, “fragment” was used as a temporary title . I decided to consider this title when it got some publicity, so that title continued on into the beta version .
Hal was listening silently to the president’s words . He did not object .
Of course, he did not take the president’s attitude, but he did not care about such things and appeared to be uninterested .
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