As for whether the way the game is developed in world is realistic like someone mentioned... as an actual game dev? Actually kinda yeah. I wouldn't be surprised by anything anymore, what with the way AI is going. ChatGPT does utter nonsense I would have told you with every fiber of my little computer scientist heart is supposed to be completely impossible if you asked me in 2019. And the research papers coming out just keep getting more and more ridiculous. Last week Google fed their new AI a dictionary and a book about grammar and got it to speak fluently in a language I've never heard of and that it never trained on after just reading those two books. Calling it now, if we're not all dead or ens*aved by robot overlords in 2040, games are totally gonna work like this and I'll be out of a job.

Heck. There's even crazy talk going around about rendering that *doesn't use triangles* like every computer graphics technique made since like 1960 something. We have "NeRFs" and "SMeRFs" and Gaussian Splatting and Jensen Huang getting up on stage and saying that in the future every frame will be AI generated by stable diffusion 27. I could not have even imagined a machine that would work that way just a few years ago. It never in a million years would have occurred to me, it is already so, so, sooo far away from anything familiar to me. I've spent basically my entire life since I was ten years old fascinated by game programming, so you'd think I know a thing or two by now, but. The rules no longer apply and common sense got yeeted out the window. Videogames ten years from now might as well be alien technology or straight up magic as far as I'm concerned.

I feel like it's 2002 and I just read Alex Rider, laughing at their Sci-fi videogame machine that could "render individual raindrops, millions and millions of them every frame" and saying "yeah right like that'll ever happen" - low and behold. It's 2023, and even dinky little handheld game consoles like the Steam Deck can all push tens of millions of particles without breaking a sweat... The future's gonna be nuts, that's all I know.

The main character/protagonist, Maria (Mari Aki– offline), was in a coma for multiple years and is undergoing physical therapy. This directly impacts her character's stats due to the game system (which uses technology originally developed for medical use) basing the player characters' starting stats on a full-body scan of the players.