Categories: SciFi
An updated version of previous attempt.
Good input, good points by yqertz. If he's working in a software shop, he's one cog in a large wheel.? He only has access to and control over one limb of the app elephant.? These days VR games are so freakingly complex and code dense, no single person can grasp and manage it all.
Also, the code warriors I know seem to look at the GUI as just eye candy, there to validate that the code they are writing works? For them, the fun and games, the dopamine spike, the immersive experience is in writing the code.? That's what they stare at for hours on end the code, not the GUI.
And general audiences are? more sophisticated these days. The prime target audience for this film, computer geeks, are super sophisticated, jaded and skeptical about all films where software development is core to the way the plot plays out.? Gone are the days when a movie can palm off a moment when a young kid looks at a GUI -- a GUI! -- and exclaims. "I know this.? It's Unix." (Jurassic Park, 1993).? Punchline:? if you look closely at the hardware in that scene, "Unix" is running on Apple hardware!
However, as yqwertz suggested,? the MC is a tester might work.
Good input, good points by yqertz. If he's working in a software shop, he's one cog in a large wheel.? He only has access to and control over one limb of the app elephant.? These days VR games are so freakingly complex and code dense, no single person can grasp and manage it all.
Also, the code warriors I know seem to look at the GUI as just eye candy, there to validate that the code they are writing works? For them, the fun and games, the dopamine spike, the immersive experience is in writing the code.? That's what they stare at for hours on end the code, not the GUI.
And general audiences are? more sophisticated these days. The prime target audience for this film, computer geeks, are super sophisticated, jaded and skeptical about all films where software development is core to the way the plot plays out.? Gone are the days when a movie can palm off a moment when a young kid looks at a GUI -- a GUI! -- and exclaims. "I know this.? It's Unix." (Jurassic Park, 1993).? Punchline:? if you look closely at the hardware in that scene, "Unix" is running on Apple hardware!
However, as yqwertz suggested,? the MC is a tester might work.
To expand upon what mikepedley85 said, high-end computer games have production budgets that rival action films. In a corporate environment, your developer would be working as part of a team of several dozens. If he is involved on the CGI end, he might be responsible for one figure or one scene. It is hard to see how that level of focus would make him lose his grip on reality.
It might be more believable if you make the MC a tester, not a developer. In-house testers play the games over and over, giving feedback to the developers. A detail obsessed tester might insist on skipping the automated tests and do all testing himself, thus leading to him losing his grip on reality.
Also, I think we need a hint as to where the journey is headed. What happens if he loses his grip on reality? The usual treatment is a? short stay in a clinic for game addicts, but you will need a stronger story line to interest viewers.
