Every game has its developers, and perhaps it was poetic that Fortuna Sands would have 13 people responsible for the game’s creation. While many people have seen them inside the game, in the real world they may be considered not only the shareholders of FS, but also the game’s designers. The story begins like many stories, with a dream and determination shaped by the world around them.

In highly prestigious Silicon Hills University, 13 students developed a new prototype that would later be the foundation of the modern day Tyche Engine. Made up of various pioneers of industry ranging from finance, technology, medicine, and even physics, they create a new system that would not only redefine interactive game play but also the very boundaries of VR itself. Originally designed as a passion project from several key developers, FS was compared to an online poker simulator. It was the first founder who expanded on the game, as not just a gambling game, a chance to access the very nature of skill itself and how humans access it.

“Skill takes time and dedication, one which people have and the other which people lack,” the first founder quoted. “By unlocking the brain's concept of time and space, the mind is free to access memory, expand and amply it in the span of seconds, which would normally take a lifetime to achieve. Also, since everyone has equal access to these abilities the game of chance allows these abilities to be accessed by a simple turn of the cards... Essentially, we’ve create a world of true equality, were even an amateur can go hand to hand with a professional and maintain a fair and equal outcome.”

When the game and engine were released, it was an instant success, people found it not only in experience, but later a way to afford financial benefits. Although controversial for possibility of manipulation and human flaw, the game boasted a high tech means to maintain an unbiased accounting. Human intervention would be minimal at best, with the occasional interject, all decisions would be decided by a computer system designed to be virtually incorruptible.

Despite the research of Double Life Syndrome and other potential health risks of overusing the game, its popularity still holds strong. Drawn by the promise of riches and equality that ordinary reality cannot offer, FS has become a haven of adventure and enterprise, despite the question of fairness or equality in constant debate. With the system’s supposedly incorruptible and ever evolving system, not even its founders can predict where the game is going, only that if you’re lucky you might catch a glimpse of the changes that have yet to come.