Infinity Game

**Infinity Game** was an online game created by Akira Oono that remained active for 15 years before the end of the server contract.

## The Beginning of Everything

15 years before the events of the main story, Akira and two other friends created the base game, in which Akira used his true name for the main character.
Akira was overwhelmed by the results of the game and decided to create a new one that would be even more advanced and popular with much more violence. This game was named **Infinity Game**.

## Game Story

Empire Calendar: Year 2XXX

The ones that ruled over most of the world, known as the Grand Empire, had begun a fearsome game.

In order to affirm the control of the conquered countries, in order to close the eyes of the rebellions; a cruel show that could be said is serving as an example had begun.

The details of what can only be thought of as crazy were:

{The vassal nations will randomly gather people in their country that will be called Players, and have them kill each other until only one remains.}

The Grand Empire broadcasted this to the whole world and made official gambles of it.

Who will be the last one standing? Who will be the second one that remains? Who will be the first to die?

Because it was cruel and overflowed with reality, it was something that far surpassed movies, grabbing the hearts of the people of the Grand Empire -the Divine People.

The Game that would be broadcasted to the whole world had created many dramas and tragic love stories from it, and in order to survive, they would kill strangers they have no grudges against. And in this way, the audience was able to watch the face of ‘Unfettered Humans’.

Human horse racing, life game, spider web; the Game had many names given to it, and the incredibly wealthy people who have free time to spare would pour great amounts of money into the Game, and in time, it turned into an important monetary source of the country.

The ‘People’ that were on the side of being chosen would tremble in fear every day; and the ‘Divine People’ who were on the watching side were intoxicated by this mad pleasure.

#### **[Game]**

What was given to the one that won was an enormous amount of money, and…a ticket to becoming one of the ‘Divine People’.

However, the only thing that awaited the other participants was -without exception- death.

## Production

Akira produced the game in a single week, although the graphics in the game were outsourced, to fund the production of the game Akira sold a farm he had inherited.

The first month of the game was marked by a lot of bugs, and the difficulty of staying on one server, to solve the problem he moved to a US server.

The game's new mechanics drew many of the players from its first project, although many resented it for having made a late warning.

The creation of the game also meant the absolute break between Arika and XXX, although Akira hoped XXX would play **Infinity Game**, XXX never created an account.

## Game mechanics

The game has many defense combat mechanism. The classes to choose from are varied, and there is no defined class system or mechanics that prevent a player from using certain equipment of other classes.

### **Game Arena Features**

* -A Game lasts one week. Monday through Sunday.
	+ The Game starts on a Monday and ends on the next Sunday. Then a new arena starts on Monday again.
	+ Clean reset. When a new arena starts and the game is reset, all game progress cannot be saved, old players have no advantage over new ones because they have higher levels, their only advantage and experience in the game.

* -Linked with real-world time, the fight will take place 24/7, all the time.
* -People with school and work have to hide well or stay in their Base. They can automaticall retaliate against attacks, and run away if they can.
* -The characters will use Stamina as they move, so if they don’t get a lot of sleep, the characters will be out of Stamina and won’t be able to move. The advantage of not having school or work has little effect on game.

* -Last player standing on the last day is crowned victor.

* -Alliances are allowed, but only one may survive in the end.

* -Implement survival gameplay like fishing, material collecting and base-building, hunting and gathering, sewing, etc. so even players who aren’t good at combat can enjoy the Game.

* -As a bonus stage, the players can rebel against the Empire. Here, the players will work together. Players stop killing each other to work together.

* -The difficulty of the bonus stage, Nightless Castle, is set to Inferno.

* -When the Nightless Castle falls, the MMO will discontinue

### **Weapons and equipment**:

The equipment is classified as grade Lower, Mid, High, Rare. Equipment can be created by collecting materials on the map or using SP (Skill Points).

* Lower grade item: Soap and bath towel: A soap is a trash weapon of the throwing type, and the bath towel is an armor for the body, but it gives +1 which is an item that no one would turn an eye to.
* Mid grade item: The buddha statues are pretty strong, with being a +18 blunt attribute weapon.
* High grade item: RPG-7 and RPG-29. A rocket launcher and a lethal weapon and AOE effect.
* Rare grade item: ?

### **SP or Skill Points**:

In the game, they are points that decrease and increase with things like battle, counterattacks, and items. By using these points, you can learn powerful skills, strengthen your defense; on the other hand, you can also steal them from your opponent and weaken them.

Items created using SP, and amounts of SP consumed.

* Lower grade item creation – 5p
* Mid grade item creation – 10p
* High grade item creation – 20p
* Rare grade item creation – 50p

Other Uses:

* launch a powerful attack – ?
* Summon a Helper (NPC) – 1000p

### Base:

A base and a place where a player and his teammates can rest, change equipment and recover, or just spend their time doing exactly nothing. For players who had school or work was an indispensable item.

### **Equipment store**:

A store where players can buy equipment without spending SP.

### **Game Locations**:

* Grand Empire
	+ Nightless City
		- Nightless Castle

## Real games similar to Infinity Game.

In the real world, **Infinity Game** would be categorized as a Battle royale game, and many games today have similar concepts.

A game with the same concept as the fictional **Infinity Game** is PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. The competitors are parachuted onto an island with absolutely nothing. Everything, including the clothes and weapons themselves, has to be conquered within the territory, as the player tries to overcome obstacles and stay on the island for as long as possible. Up to 100 players can be launched on the island at once, but there is only one winner, or one winning team if you are playing in teams.

**Infinity Game** is very similar to Grand Theft Auto, weapons, equipment and various functions of the Infinity Game are similar to GTA. The Base also exist in GTA, but are used to save game progress and store weapons and vehicles.

## Trivia

* Although Akira Oono takes full credit for the game's creation, he wasn't the only one to participate in it.
* Infinity Game was created over the corpse of The Far East City of Chaos, the first game Akira Oono created.
* It is implicit in the web novel that the new world is actually the future of the world where the great empire exists, and that demons, demi-humans were created by the Grand Empire.