Gaming Bros (Unfinished)

Brock and Daniel were two young adults looking for a meaning in their lives, being geeks, they always had a large interest in technology and video games, so much so that both of them went to school for computer programming and software development. They met each other through a online video game called “Upperwatch” and soon found out they were studying in the same campus, needless to say, they hit it off right away.

Regarding personality, while being very unique, they shared many interests and personality traits. Brock was a part of the football team, while Daniel was more focused on other extracurricular activities to boost his CV. Because of their schedule, both were really busy and hardly had time to do what they by far liked the most, playing video games, it was almost a holiday when they got together to play games, nothing and no one could get in between their love for video games and the countless hours they put into this activity.

After college, they were able to get very comfortable jobs, Daniel working as a freelancer programmer and game designer and Brock working from home for a big tech company. With their lives taking very similar paths, they started to hang out more and have many gaming parties that would last a couple of days. Because they lived very sedentary lifestyles, they started to realize that their average body type was not very easy too maintain, and for them it was very easy to grow into obesity, so, as to not appeal to the fat gamer stereotype, each of them worked out periodically.

While having no hate towards video games, Brock’s roommate, Jack, never really understood the whole culture over such things, he was always a sports type of guy, even though he had a skinny body he made sure to keep up with it through high school and college scoring some girlfriends on the way.

One day, while going on a run around the city he lived, Daniel got distracted and while changing the song playing on his phone, he failed to see a person crossing the sidewalk with a box in their hands and crashed into them. Getting up, he saw a very corpulent man with a couple boxes still on his hands after the impact. While getting up, Daniel was stunned to see such a large figure before him, he recollected himself and said:

- I’m sorry man, I didn’t see you walking by
To which the man replied, jokingly:
- Well considering my size it would be pretty hard to not see me, right?

They both laughed it off and Daniel helped the man grab his belongings off the floor. However, while grabbing the things, a certain item called Daniel’s attention, it was a very old Nintendo64 cartridge with the name “Falling Chompers”, while he had a great knowledge in video game history, he didn’t recognize the game at all, turning to the unknown man he asked:

- I see you like video games, I never saw or heard about this game before...
- Oh, this game was actually a hand me down from an old friend, he was a personal trainer but overnight he gained a lot of weight, lost business and had to move to the countryside and gave off some of his belongings, he then told me to get rid of the game but something about it caught my attention and I had to try it, turns out, pretty fun, very simple but has a lot of layers to it, would you like to keep it? I already beat most of it but sold my N64.
Thinking about it, Daniel didn’t really need the game, he had many new titles and others that he would like to replay with Brock, but he couldn’t let go of this specific game, it had a weird effect on him, almost like he needed to play it as soon as possible.
- I’ll keep it!
Daniel said with enthusiasm
- Great! I’m sure you’ll have a lot of fun with it, especially with a partner...