Game Easter Eggs Novels & Stories

Archie said before he quickly stepped out leaving me and my sons in the large study. I faced my beautiful sons who stared at me with excitement at the thought of a game. "How about we play a game of hide and seek. You two will hide inside this study for an hour and if I don't find any of you, the one I didn't find will be given a special surprise." I explained the game. "What is the surprise?" Jamie asked as I laughed. "That's why it's called a surprise son. Your not to tell anyone till you receive it." I explained as he opened his mouth.

"Why would a video game developer waste petabytes of server processing power to dynamically generate a rusted locket with a unique, hand-drawn texture file inside for a mindless alien monster? It doesn't even have any stat boosts. It's completely useless for gameplay." Leo shrugged, grabbing another apple from the bowl. "Immersion, Jinx. The devs want the world to feel deep. It's an easter egg. Maybe it's lore. Like the aliens stole it from human colonists before the war started or something. I read on the forums that the new lead designer is a total perfectionist." Ren stared at the locket. The scratches on the silver looked incredibly organic. The simulated tarnish in the crevices of the m

He seems to be telling her something, and she seems to be laughing, loving every bit of it. I join them soon enough. “What are we laughing about?” I sit next to Cora, fixing her hair as she grins up at me. “Uncle Griffin was just telling me about this big gaming mall. Do you know, Mommy, it has all kinds of games there? Even the ones that haven’t been released to the public yet. He said those games are exclusively designed for the mall so it can attract more players. I really want to go there, Mommy. Please. Can we please go there?”

The only obstacle was crossing a river. Eve stared at me, her eyes full of helplessness. "But I don’t know how to swim." I lowered my gaze and whispered, "I’ve hidden a small boat in the cornfield. When the lantern ceremony begins the day after tomorrow, we’ll sneak away and escape." The old fishing boat had been discarded by a fisherman in the village, left abandoned in the fields. I had secretly repaired it and stashed it in the cornfield when no one was watching. Eve’s eyes lit up.

On the console, under MODEL CONTROL, was an option: SANDBOX – TEST ENVIRONMENTS. I hovered. “Clara,” Niko said sharply. “No freeplay.” “They showed me something in Horizon,” I said. “A demo. Godmode Lite. I want to see if it shows up here.” I clicked. A list of environments dropped down. GODMODE_SANDBOX_01. GODMODE_SANDBOX_02. Then I saw it. AEGIS_COMPAT_TEST (PENDING). My stomach turned.

The one Liam had warned her never to touch. The one that called to her every time she walked past it. Her breath hitched as her fingers twitched. She remembered the last time she’d tried to open it—how quickly Liam had appeared, how furious his voice had been. But then… just days ago, he had shown her what was inside. A sleek, high-tech game room, with massive screens, wires, maps. It looked like something from a spy movie. That was what he wanted her to believe. But Elizabeth had learned by now that Liam never did anything without layers of meaning beneath it.

I only glanced at Ozgur, then looked at everyone. "Shall we go find some easter eggs?" said Fortino enthusiastically. "C'mon, babe. Easter comes next two months," Jennifer shook her head. "I mean, we're looking for something else. Something to replace easter eggs." He smiled mysteriously. "That's okay. We can do a lottery, for example, one of us gets a special number, he can hide things first in this house. After he hides, he comes back. The others are looking for the object, and before that I will turn off the CCTV. If by the time limit, the item cannot be found then the holder of the special number will win. Vice versa." Greg came up with a brilliant idea, it's like an upgrade from a game

Leon continued again. "If we break the trunk of this tree, will we find the codes?" asked Claire innocently. Leon laughed at that. "It's not that easy, Claire. This game is designed to be as real as possible. If you cut the trunk of this tree, it will still be a split trunk. We need to look for loopholes that those out there are not aware of. As neatly as a game is made, the screen is not as wide as what we see today. There must be a gap," Leon replied.

While most people were busy freaking out, two stepped forward—chill and confident. They said they were mages. Seasoned pro in the game. They gave us the rundown: We were stuck in a horror game. Everyone here? Already dead IRL. The castle had thirty floors. Each floor had its own monster—or monsters. The higher you climbed, the scarier they got. Clear all thirty floors, hit the legendary 9,999 points, and you get a second shot at life. Bonus? A cash prize so massive, you'd never have to work again.

“Many people tried to catch red eggs, but only Remi saw through the trick. In fact, he was probably the only person who understood every mini-game stage the Egg Hunt event had apart from myself.” Mini-game stage? For some reason, that sounded very familiar. Akiko was reminded about how Zen discovered the possibility of an area floor boss on his first dive. Was collecting the different eggs a game meant to test the candidates? Sasha raised her brows in disbelief. “Finding those camo eggs was also a mini-game? It didn’t feel like it to me. They moved very professionally.” The gamer in him sighed. Gaming was a profession too. Did the assassin think killing people was the only legitimate job in