FULFILLMENT: an aspirational adventure

FULFILLMENT: an aspirational adventure

OLIVER PAGE is a sheltered kid from Chicago. He's smart and talented. He's also shy. He relies on a chatbot for spiritual advice. He's never had a real job. He's never had a date. Now he’s heading for California, hoping for a glamorous career making video games. But out there on the coast the hours are long, and rewards are few. Worse yet, the girl of his dreams doesn't know he exists, and criminal hackers threaten to sink his company. Welcome to your life, bro. It's the most challenging game. OLIVER PAGE is a sheltered kid from Chicago. He's smart, talented, honest. He's also shy. He relies on a chatbot for spiritual advice. He's never had a real job. He's never had a date. Now he's heading for California, hoping for a glamorous career making video games. But out there on the coast the hours are long, and rewards are few. The girl of his dreams doesn't know he exists, and criminal hackers threaten to sink his company. He refuses to accept an unkind fate, but he'll have to work hard to escape it. Welcome to your life, bro. It's the most challenging game. Hal Barwood is a veteran writer with multiple credits in multiple media. Following college (art major) and film school (animation), for twenty years he was a Hollywood screenwriter (SUGARLAND EXPRESS, DRAGONSLAYER, among others). For more than twenty years after that he was a designer and writer of video games (INDIANA JONES AND THE INFERNAL MACHINE, YODA STORIES, RTX RED ROCK, many others). After all those years in the collaborative arts, he has now discovered the solitary pleasures of writing for the page. His first three novels, SHADOWCOP, BROOMHANDLE, and WHISKEYJACK follow the adventures of an unusual young policewoman, Marianne Sarzeau. She's a good cop with special abilities that help in her work. She is, in short, an adept. Some might call her a witch. Then came GLITTERBUSH, a story about the discovery of strange plants whose seeds blew in from another world, and HAPPENSTANCE, an adventurous crime thriller about stealing an election in Reno, Nevada. Now here's FULFILLMENT, all about a newcomer's misadventures in the exotic world of video game development. You can find out all about Hal and his books by visiting his website:  finitearts.com