Brother, Am I Cute? [EN]: Chapter 142

Hyung, am I cute? 142

It seems I received a small favor.

I heard that even if I replaced the windshield, I wouldn’t be able to drive right away and would have to wait.

Until the adhesive sets properly.

But they prepared a new car for me so I could drive right away, so I’m just grateful.

Anyway, I need to make Siha aware that it’s his car.

“Siha.”

“Huh?”

“Look! See! You went to the hospital and got better, so it’s very different, right? This is Siha’s car.”

“Ah.”

Siha nods, looking very suspicious.

He walks closer and strokes the car door.

I need to wash his hands later.

“How is it? Is it okay?”

“Hyung. Car better. Betta.”

“Yeah. It’s better. Shall we go home now?”

“Ah.”

Siha’s face brightens as if he’s finally relieved.

The 1mm droop in his eyes returned to its place.

I opened the car door and put Siha in.

“Okay. Shall we go?”

“Ah.”

And so, we set off for home.

I was nervous that he might notice it was a new car.

Anyway, I’m glad Siha regained his energy.

“Wishing at the well worked, didn’t it? Right?”

“Hyung. Well.”

“Yeah.”

Siha tilted his head.

“Coin. Half not.”

“Um. Even if the coin isn’t split in half, the well spirit might have granted Siha’s wish? Because Siha is so cute.”

“Huh?”

Oops. I should have kept the last part to myself, but it came out.

I need to be careful in the future.

“Haha. The well spirit must have granted your wish quickly because Siha’s concern for the car was so lovely.”

“Why?”

“No… why is why….”

“Quickly. Why?”

“Um. The reason why the wish could be granted quickly is.”

“Moya?” [Korean word for ‘what’]

What should I say to explain this?

After thinking about it, a good idea came to mind.

“Ah! These days, the well spirit also works with a computer. So, the work is fast.”

“Why?”

“You saw my hands moving quickly, right? The well spirit must be typing about a thousand words per minute. Faster than me?”

“Hyung? Quickly?”

“Yeah. But the well spirit has been around for a long time, so it must be faster than me.”

Somehow, the well spirit has become a cutting-edge god.

After countless questions, we arrived home.

“Siha. Let’s get out now.”

“No. Siha car. Isser.”

“You want to be with Siha’s car?”

“Ah.”

Siha gripped the seatbelt tightly with both hands.

He must want to be with his car that came back to life(?).

He sticks his face to the belt, and his cheek fat pops out.

That appearance is so cute.

I poked that protruding cheek fat with my finger.

Squishy squishy.

This must be the privilege of being a hyung [older brother or male friend].

He blinks and looks at me, wondering what I’m doing.

“Hyung?”

“Yeah. Shall we stay in the car for a while?”

“Ah.”

Spending time in the car like this sometimes wouldn’t be bad.

The typhoon has passed, so the weather is cool now.

There was no need to turn on the air conditioner.

So, we stayed in the car for a while.

“Ah! Then shall we celebrate the car getting better?”

“Ah.”

Siha wiggled his feet, happy.

I took out the paper tape from my bag.

I always prepare it to kidnap Siha’s cuteness. (Just kidding, I saw the paper tape in my bag today.)

Siha must have put it in at home.

“Tada! We’re going to write a letter to the car on this paper and stick it on. Good?”

“Ah!”

“Let’s write with this thick magic marker. Okay. Siha. Tell me what you want to say to the car.”

“Car.”

I wrote as Siha called out.

[Car~ Car~]

“What’s next?”

I can practice having Siha say this often.

I can’t miss this opportunity.

At this point, I felt like I was as good as a daycare teacher.

“Ah. Hoo~ Siha. Like this like this. Hesser. Better. Siha and. Siha and…. Hurt no. Play! Ah!”

“Oh ho. I see.”

[Hoo~ I’m glad you’re better. I wished for you to get better. Let’s keep playing with me without getting hurt!]

I read what I wrote.

“Tada! How is it? It’s the same as what Siha said, right?”

“Ah.”

No. Wait a minute.

Is this really practice? Is it?

Moon Do-hwan’s ‘No. You rascal.’ face comes to mind, but I try to erase it.

This is good enough. What.

Isn’t it okay if he’s cute?

Thinking this, I handed Siha the magic marker.

“Siha. Now let’s draw a picture here.”

“Ah.”

Siha grabbed the magic marker and drew a congratulatory picture.

The drawing was a large bandage.

He’s already all better, so I wonder if that bandage will be of any use, but it will be a sign not to get hurt in the future.

“All done?”

“Ah!”

“Then I’ll stick it on.”

I stuck it in front of the passenger seat.

It might look a little messy, but what’s the problem if Siha feels relieved?

“Then now that you’ve liked the car enough, shall we go home?”

“Car too?”

“No. The car can’t go inside the house.”

He keeps trying to put the car in the house, I wish it was that big.

I honked the horn three times.

Beep beep beep.

“The car is also saying thank you. It says Siha should go home and play together tomorrow.”

“Ah. Hyung.”

“Yeah. Okay. Let’s unbuckle the seatbelt.”

Now that he’s relieved, Siha unbuckled his seatbelt.

When I got out of the car, I could see the paper on the front windshield.

I took a picture of it because it was so funny.

This is Instagrammable.

“Shall we go in now?”

“Ah.”

We went into the house like that.

As soon as I uploaded the picture to Instagram, the reactions came up in less than a minute.

-Shu: So cute!!

-Baekddong: You have to exercise so you don’t get hurt…….

-Alisa: Don’t take it off until I come to Korea! I’m going soon!

-Hong Jin-soo: I want to have it! A4 paper!

No. What. Are you all just looking at your phones…….

I was dumbfounded and laughed.

They are all good people.

***

Even if it’s a team effort, there will be discrepancies if the parts in charge are different.

Even if the best experts in each field gather to form a team and try to develop something, various noises will arise.

This is not because of each other’s stubbornness, but because of differences in perspective and the work site.

And it comes from ignorance of the new work.

As much as the result is the same, the process itself is often the first time.

Even with just one picture, that’s the case.

Landscape painting, oriental painting, western painting, cartoon style, illustration, etc.

They are grouped as the same picture, but there are various productions and parts that you cannot know unless you experience them.

The situation in this club room is like that now.

“Um…. It’s English.”

“It’s English.”

“It’s English.”

It’s obvious, but I wrote the scenario in English.

What I mean is, it’s going to be released in English anyway.

“Are you not understanding something, by any chance?”

“No! We just think our speaking is a little weak. Isn’t Korea the country of reading comprehension!”

That’s right.

First of all, having been admitted to Kangin University means that they are good at reading comprehension to some extent.

And they won’t be completely unable to speak English.

If that’s not the case, they won’t be able to think about joining a foreign company.

“Then is something wrong?”

“Umm. How should I explain this? First, don’t misunderstand. Absolutely umm. I’m not pointing out or meddling because I’m good. Okay?”

An Gyeong-ho adjusted his crooked glasses.

He’s speaking carefully, so is there something bothering him?

“It’s okay. Tell me anything. I need to fix it if I’m lacking.”

“Um. Okay.”

Feeling frustrated with his cautious appearance, Shin Gyeong-hwan said.

“It’s difficult to write it like this. It’s hard for us when the scenario is like this when we’re programming and configuring it. It’s not easy to see either.”

“Are you saying it’s hard to read? You can’t get into it?”

“No. That’s not it. It reads well. If this was a novel.”

“Huh?”

“There are too many unnecessary stage directions. We need to reduce the dialogue a bit too.”

“Umm.”

I tilted my head, not knowing what he meant.

To be exact, I don’t understand what he’s trying to point out.

This was the first time I had been pointed out like this during a meeting.

‘Ah…….’

This wasn’t about being stubborn.

I realized that there was really a disconnect between me and these people.

Setting, story, character.

It wasn’t about those things.

I knew what this was.

It was in line with the problems that arise in the interpretation process.

The gap between managers who don’t know the field and employees who work in the field.

That’s right.

The three of them shared something in common, so there were parts that they understood.

But I’m different.

I have no experience participating in game production, and I have no experience writing scenarios.

Not having written a scenario is not a problem.

Because I’ve built the foundation so far.

But the problem is…….

‘I’ve never done game programming.’

Knowing with knowledge has its limits, and there are parts that you can only know by seeing the actual site.

‘I thought too easily…….’

There are definitely shortcomings in the investigation.

I quickly finished thinking and nodded.

“So, you’re saying the storytelling is lacking?”

“No. That’s not it…. How should I explain this?”

“You’re saying the game storytelling is lacking? Just like the directing is different from movies, the storytelling unique to games is lacking?”

“Ah! That’s it!”

Shin Gyeong-hwan clapped his hands as if he was right.

That’s right. Even if you write a story, there are things that can be implemented and things that cannot be implemented.

“Umm. Sorry. I lack experience in this area.”

I apologized readily.

Shin Gyeong-hwan waved his hand in embarrassment.

“No. It’s natural that you don’t know. In fact, maybe most people who want to be game scenario writers don’t know? To the point where you think, is this a scenario?”

“Is it that bad?”

“Yeah. The disconnect is severe. It’s like that now too. Of course, well-known scenario writers know it well.”

Well, you won’t know this unless you learn it.

“Can’t I participate in the development once? Once I grasp the concept, I think I can write according to it quickly…….”

“This is not a concept that can be done overnight…….”

“You don’t need to know it deeply. It’s enough to scratch the surface. You know? The T-shaped talent that is required these days.”

A talent who acquires knowledge widely and deeply in one specialized field.

It was the person needed when forming a team to work on a project together.

It’s not easy to get there.

Working with such a person is a little easier.

An Gyeong-ho smiled awkwardly and said.

“You’ll improve quickly if you work together.”

“Um. But you don’t have a lot of time either…. Can I see some of the game sources you guys have made? I’ll study them personally. Can you give them to me for about two days? I’ll get used to it quickly.”

“Will it work in two days?”

“I have to try. To understand.”

When a typhoon hits, it leaves a lot of damage.

But it doesn’t just leave damage.

In it, it teaches you how to prepare for the next time, helps the circulation of air, and plays a beneficial role.

Just like fixing a broken car.

If it breaks, it can be repaired again.

Although I didn’t think about this work easily, my results were seen that way.

So, I felt sorry to some extent.

Park Gyeong-jun, who was watching me, laughed heartily.

“Haha! What’s so serious! It’ll work out somehow. Everyone goes through this. Are we going to work just once or twice? Seeing it like this reminds me of the old days. I asked you for a scenario once.”

An Gyeong-ho smiled as if he remembered that too.

“Wow, man. Just thinking about that…. Ugh. I can’t work with you again. This must be implemented. This must be done by increasing the choices for this quest. No. You have to know the algorithm and say it. It’s like everything will work out if you say it like that…….”

He shook his head as if he had been through something.

I can’t draw an exact picture, but I think I know what the situation is roughly.

“I’ll try to understand as much as possible too. But are the story flow and character lines okay? If I reduce them a bit?”

“Yeah! The lines seem okay. What? I wish you would also think about the directing that shows on the screen depending on the situation. Then the stage directions and lines will be reduced a lot.”

“Umm. Like a movie?”

“It’s a little different from a movie. You also have to do quest storytelling.”

“That’s right…….”

There will be stories that can be solved with quest windows like in game fantasies.

There will also be stage directions that are covered with atmosphere or music like in movies.

‘I think I know something.’

My head is flashing.

It’s important to understand the game, not focus on the text.

That understanding connects scene to scene.

Then you need a directorial scenario that understands without reading the stage directions.

‘You can’t think like a movie though.’

A game is not camera direction, but algorithm direction.

It’s the direction of programming.

After understanding that, you need to figure out how good these people are.

It’s the same as the role of an interpreter.

You have to know the person as much as possible and talk to them.

Maybe I didn’t know these people.

“Show me what you’ve made recently.”

“Okay. But I wonder if you can understand it?”

“I’ll try as much as possible. What.”

“If you have any questions, ask me on KakaoTalk [popular Korean messaging app]. I’ll answer you anytime. First of all, we’ll be making it based on this scenario.”

“Really? Okay. I’ll keep writing for now.”

“Okay.”

Just as I was about to receive the file.

A text message arrived.

-The emoticon settlement statement has been sent to your email. Please check. You will receive a settlement statement by email every month from now on.

“Huh?”