What Is Frank Cole, The First Full Immersion Game?
An aging man lay upon a hospital bed hooked into all manner of monitors and machines.
This man is Frank Cole, former CEO and co-founder of Rust & Ember. Rust & Ember was first and foremost a gaming company, but had in the 40 years since it’s creation become a gaming technology mega-corporation. R & E had climbed out of the obscurity of their beginnings to become the number one name in gaming technology world-wide. They now boasted an impressive collection of titles across all genres, and had developed the newest hardware on which to play those titles. And now R & E was set to release the biggest game ever. Auriel Online, the first Full Immersion game ever created. Not only was it fully immersive, it was an MMORPG. Auriel Online had been Frank’s …show more content…
It was what he wanted to leave behind for the following generations to to remember him by. He had spent the years since highschool developing games and gaming technology all so he could make his dream of Auriel Online a reality. Now, he wouldn’t even be able to see it himself. Frank had been a large man during his life, possessing broad shoulders and a barrel chest. He had displayed chiseled features, along with an impressive height. Now, he was an emaciated shell, displaying none of the physique of his previous self. The cancer that riddled his body, and the treatment to combat it, had rid him of his …show more content…
Now he grasped one last piece of hope, one last chance at seeing his dream himself. An idea that was utterly insane, and he would never have tried had he been healthy. He wanted to upload his conscious onto Auriel Online and leave his dying body behind. He just had to convince the other person in the room to let him.
Frank was joined in his room by his longtime friend and colleague Jonas Brown. Frank had known Jonas for years, having met him while they were both freshman in college studying Game Design. They had quickly become friends and started laying the foundation for what would eventually become Rust & Ember. With Frank becoming ill, Jonas had taken over as CEO and finalized everything for the release of Auriel Online. Frank had called Jonas here to explain his idea and, hopefully, have Jonas set-up everything that needed to be done to do it.
Silence permeated the air between the two friends, it was a heavy and oppressive thing that weighed on them both. Each knowing that Frank was quickly leaving the world, and neither having any hope of him surviving much longer. Frank finally broke the
This man is Frank Cole, former CEO and co-founder of Rust & Ember. Rust & Ember was first and foremost a gaming company, but had in the 40 years since it’s creation become a gaming technology mega-corporation. R & E had climbed out of the obscurity of their beginnings to become the number one name in gaming technology world-wide. They now boasted an impressive collection of titles across all genres, and had developed the newest hardware on which to play those titles. And now R & E was set to release the biggest game ever. Auriel Online, the first Full Immersion game ever created. Not only was it fully immersive, it was an MMORPG. Auriel Online had been Frank’s …show more content…
It was what he wanted to leave behind for the following generations to to remember him by. He had spent the years since highschool developing games and gaming technology all so he could make his dream of Auriel Online a reality. Now, he wouldn’t even be able to see it himself. Frank had been a large man during his life, possessing broad shoulders and a barrel chest. He had displayed chiseled features, along with an impressive height. Now, he was an emaciated shell, displaying none of the physique of his previous self. The cancer that riddled his body, and the treatment to combat it, had rid him of his …show more content…
Now he grasped one last piece of hope, one last chance at seeing his dream himself. An idea that was utterly insane, and he would never have tried had he been healthy. He wanted to upload his conscious onto Auriel Online and leave his dying body behind. He just had to convince the other person in the room to let him.
Frank was joined in his room by his longtime friend and colleague Jonas Brown. Frank had known Jonas for years, having met him while they were both freshman in college studying Game Design. They had quickly become friends and started laying the foundation for what would eventually become Rust & Ember. With Frank becoming ill, Jonas had taken over as CEO and finalized everything for the release of Auriel Online. Frank had called Jonas here to explain his idea and, hopefully, have Jonas set-up everything that needed to be done to do it.
Silence permeated the air between the two friends, it was a heavy and oppressive thing that weighed on them both. Each knowing that Frank was quickly leaving the world, and neither having any hope of him surviving much longer. Frank finally broke the