Sitting in a small café, Len checked out the source code for the custom BOT program that he developed called Dark Glider. The purpose of Dark Glider was to help players with repetitive tasks within Pretzelverse's The Colossal Machine. Although The Colossal Machine was a giant sandbox where players from around the world could interact socially, there was a lot of structured content as well. For a player to explore the depths of a cavernous maze or navigate a jungle river, they needed to acquire skills, knowledge, and resources through prerequisite quests.

Len had spent many weeks perfecting the code that composed Dark Glider, and he had received a lot of praise in the beta testing stage. People were able to level characters and access adventure content in a fraction of the time. The café would be closing soon, so he needed to work quickly.

Len needed to launch the initial program before the expansion came out. According to his rough calculations, he figured he had at least a few weeks before that happened, perhaps longer. Normally, it would take one programmer more than a year to get a project of this size and scope off the ground. While Len was a good programmer, he had a day job, so he hired two additional programmers from an online working site called VDesk, one for the networking interface and another to hook into the game engine.

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Word had already got out that he was creating an auto-leveling system for The Colossal Machine, so he knew he could sell thousands of dollars of product before Pretzelverse got around to changing things.

Len has been keeping his followers informed of the development of his mod on his blog called Dark Happenings. Although the official title of the add-on was CM Helper, the community dubbed it Dark Glider because he had often described it as a way to glide through the universe of The Colossal Machine as if on skates. Many followers wondered what the actual mechanisms of Dark Glider were, since much of the code was sent electronically to a private server on the Dark Web. However, most players of The Colossal Machine only cared that it would help them achieve their in-game goals quickly.

“There it is,” Len said to no one in particular as he finished the last module for Dark Glider. After tonight's finishing touches, Dark Glider was ready for launch!

Len's heart was pounding as he clicked on the submit button that would send his changes back to the repository. There were a million other details to be done before he could launch Dark Glider. He hastily jotted down some notes.

1) Send email to the marketing list

2) Notify the community boards

3) Web banner advertisements

4) Final secure code review

5) Tighten modules

As he left the café, Len pulled up his secure communications app on his smartphone and sent a message to his ghost coders: “Code complete when your mods are ready.”