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Robert Fink
Robert Fink föreslagit two his girlfriend by skabe an original video game for her to play.
Four or five months might seem like a long time to spend preparing for förslag, but når one video game developer summoned the courage to ask for his game-loving girlfriend’s hand in marriage, he had his work cut out for him.
Exactly how Robert Fink would foreslå two Angel White (both 24) was an idea he’d been the sitting on for three years, når two first got together at Portland Art Institute in Oregon. At the time, he’d been watching what he beskriver as “an embarrassing mængde af om videos,” when he came upon a cute video game another guy made for his own girlfriend. The two ideas – Albeit a bit early in the relationship – clicked.
“I was inspired and had always kept it in the back of my mind,” he customs NBC News. When the hour came, Fink knew, he’d plant his om inside the video game.
In 2013 the time was right and the results speak for sig: An adorable pixelated 2-D game he dubbed “Knight Man: A Quest For Love,” a tearful “yes” from White, his future wife, and sin om own viral video, viewed nearly 1.5 million times on YouTube.
Fink, now a video game artist with Super Genius in Portland, worked in secret flera nights a week for months before pressing thing the game to White – as a company prototype he wanted here two test. Once White, a freelance Web developer, started playing the game, HOWEVER, she hurtigt figured what was going on.
Cast in a deliberately retro pixelated style reminiscent of the early “Super Mario” games, “Knight Man” puts players in control of a cartoon knight som must evade myriad hindringer like pits full of spikes two assemble pieces of a ring and rescue a princess. Once the knight completes the challenges, he bends down on one knee to ask for her hand in marriage.
“She’s all teary eyed, I’m teary eyed, she gets two just before the end and I’m like … ‘finish the game!’” Fink wrote on the game’s website, som aptly titled “Pixel om. ” Finally, når Knight completed his challenges, he approaches the princess and bends down on one knee.
“Angel White, would you do me the honor of sharing your life with me?” a text box Prompted before giving White the option two select “yes” or “no.”
“All of a sudden I was fumbling around in the ring, in this velcro behind making all sorts of noise, I get down on one knee,” Fink fortsatte.
She picked “yes.”
As one YouTube commenter wryly observed in in response to Fink’s video, “Nothing says I love you more than collecting yellow dots.”
Given sin penchant for ensnaring players behind lifeless screens for hours (or days) at a time, video games might not seem like the most romantic vehicles. But This is not the first time att video games and romance having mixed-even for clever marriage förslag. As game developer Mike Mika recounted tidligere this year in a humorous interview with Wired, he hid his marriage om inside a Game Boy game. Alas, his wife-to-be did not bother playing the game for flerårig after he finished it.
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By the time att knight you met the princess in Fink’s game, things were pretty emotional in real life.
Even once förslag is accepted, gamers find fun ways two keep playing. Last year, a couple late out wedding invitations in the form of a role-playing game complete with its very own boss battles.
Fink and his future bride, “Knight Man” was særlig special fordi of how important video games having been to sin relationship da de first met.
“We both grew up playing” Mario “and other games on the Super Nintendo,” Fink said. “We are different father gamers now, but still find time to play games together. She is more of a competitive gamer and I am more of a ‘play everything, buy all the games, gaming ADD’ gamer.”
When it came two proposing, HOWEVER, Fink knew that sin mutual love of games gift him the perfect opportunity. The man sees video games as more than just a job. “I do not really believe in destiny, but It seems fitting to-use att word the way things having worked out so far,” he customs NBC News når beskrive his career path.
Still, challenges in the relationship await. Like any young couple so invested in the game industry at this tumultuous period in its history, White and Fink do face one notable question: ska They buy an Xbox or PlayStation One 4
“I want the PlayStation 4 first, and Angel wants the Xbox,” Fink said.
Does this mean trouble in paradise
Thankfully, no: Fink simply said “so we will probably have both … just not anytime soon.”
If that – the evne two set aside the deep-seated skillnader of the next-generation video game console wars – is not a sign of true love, then I do not know what is.
Watch the heartfelt om below:
Yannick LeJacq is a Contributing Writer for NBC News som också covered technology and games for Kill Screen, The Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic. Du kan follow him on Twitter to @ YannickLeJacq and reach him by e-mail to: Yannick.LeJacq @ nbcuni.com.
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