The electric scooter whirred to life. Max rode his modified birthday gift to ‘Homework Shed.’ Homework Shed was a nonprofit tuition centre governed by Miss Sally, his neighbour. All students from his school usually came to the shed to do their homework with the help of Miss Sally. Max was an excellent student and so he didn’t stay there for long.
He started riding back home. His brown, curly hair shook in the wind, his scooter was going at 20km/ph. He reached home. He said “hi” to his mother and sped upstairs to his room. After a two minute shower, he sat in front of his computer.
Designer, he had named his computer long ago. Designer was assembled by he himself with branded parts. Max was a young software and hardware engineer. The blue-eyed, fourteen year old even developed his own Operating System. A few months ago, he had started developing a game called Designer’s World. It was under quality check that February.
He tried it out. He played for hours. At 10:00, a pop-up appeared, it said “Click Handle+ D.” Max clicked it suspiciously, he didn’t remember adding that.
The World Around Him Changed.
Pixel by pixel.
Max was petrified. He was in another dimension, a computing dimension, a pixel dimension or what ever you want to call it. A big message was floating in the sky, similar to the popup that got him to this place. It said:
WELCOME TO
DESIGNER’S
WORLD
HERE YOU CAN DESIGN, CREATE AND DO ANYTHING! YOU WILL BE GIVEN THE INFINITY MAP. WITH IT YOU CAN SEE THE THINGS AROUND WITH A 20KM RANGE.
The map appeared on front of Max.
“Wow,” he said, “did I create this?”
A sudden thought entered his mind, he put virtually thought of his house in him mind in front of him, in Designer’s World. It appeared there. Max was shocked, it was a perfect, life-size replica!
He went inside and noticed that nothing was used to power up the place.
“You didn’t need anything to power up the world,” he thought, “so no energy means no power plants and could it be…?”
Max tried to create pollution. It didn’t work.
Just as he had suspected.
This was the perfect world.