G.A.M.E.S

The Grand Association for Making Ever-lasting Satisfaction (Or G.A.M.E.S for short), is the company created in 195X by a man named Clay Williams in order to find a way to make mankind ageless should the end of the world come sooner than expected. However, he needed funding from the government in order to kick start the project. To accomplish this, he spent over 20 years studying the science of general relativity along with biology regarding the human mind. He also used science fiction and its belief of humans making entirely new realms based on technology as a source for his experiments.

He would spend countless hours of every day trying and failing different equations and formulas he gathered from science books across history at that point. In the end, nearly 20 years after the start of his studies, his work paid off when he managed to create a stable digital pocket dimension the size of a house. Eager, he presented his findings to top researchers who passed it on to the government. The government, seeing this leap of technology and research, decided to help fund the company in order to create a prosperous future.

So he got to work hiring top researchers with the vast amounts of money at his disposal. Next was the location. For this, decided to build it deep underground while making the entrance very subtle. He got this idea from underground tombs in Egypt that didn't have pyramids as to make it harder for tomb raiders to steal the valuables inside. After another 3 years of constructing the building underground, he finally got back to work, figuring out ways to increase the size of the digital dimension he created. Now that he had a bunch of the top scientists, this process was a whole lot faster, as he was able to make the world as large as a small country about the size of England before overloading.

Now that he had max capacity, he got to work trying to come up with a way to put people into this world since trying to put the digital world into the real was both a lot harder, and inefficient in Clay's eyes. However, in 199X, his plan temporarily changed course when he saw his son Nova Willaims playing fighting games, Role Playing Games, and Simulators on the game console he had just gotten for his birthday. Inspired by the works of art and technology he saw, he decided to not only find ways to put people into it, but also add a video game element to it. Unlike the streamline stories of classic consoles however, he took a different approach. He decided to make it open world so that people can live, Some speculate that leaked info regarding this idea was what lead to MMORPGs becoming commonplace in the mid 90s.

By 200X, he was finished adding the open world aspect. All that was left was finding a way to not just digitize, but actually teleport people into the world. They begun testing the machine using prisoners on Death's Row. However, all of these attempts ended in failure, usually resulting in the body either getting sucked dry, disintegrating into ash, or the machine blowing up due to an overload. Despite all of these failures however, it didn't actually take long. After a fluke accident with a bottle of radioactive waste falling onto Clay, he stumbled back into the testing chair where the machine abruptly activated. Clay disappeared without a trace. Shortly after, the testers saw him in the digital world for a fraction of a second before a blackout occured, permanently cutting off observations of the digital world for good. He has been considered dead since March 23, 2002.

Since he had disappeared, Clay's son Nova stepped up to the plate. Despite having no idea what to do considering he had not taken nearly as much of his life learning about these functions and equations, he did, and still is, doing quite decent despite being somewhat of an idiot. Nova was the person who came up with the idea for the final name of the project (Project Freedom) and the company as a whole (G.A.M.E.S) since his own father was caught up too much in his studies to even come up with a name for either.

Finally, by the end of the 2000's, the company was able to replicate the effects of the incident involving the chemicals. They came up with an improved version of the machine that involves placing the chemicals into a person's body via a special tube that connects to their brain, then absorbing the matter of the subject before placing them into the world. However, as they had no idea whether it worked or not, they looked at the resulting after effect and saw that it was the same way Clay got absorbed, so they just assumed it worked with Nova approving of this faulty logic.

Now that they had their tests considered to be a "success" in their eyes, they began paying small, somewhat unsuccessful sites to host their advertisement for the first batch of people to partake. The company overall averages about 350 people every year getting their chance to try their experiment out. That is where we are today.