Sam and AJ’s dream is to make video games. But when they borrow money from Big Bunny, a Samoan gangster rapper, to realize their dream, they get ripped off by a German hacker, who, with the help of a few thousand fake accounts, promised to buy their app to the top of the store.
Now their only hope of not getting thug-lifed by Big Bunny’s Hungarian enforcer, Zoli, is to convince their misfit clan to get back together and win The Dominator - an impossibly competitive eSport championship. Helped by Victoria, a deaf pro player who quit competing in protest of Gamergate, the underdogs instead end up realizing their dream of starting a game studio of their own. Only to learn that making video games is not all fun and games. In fact, it’s a complete sh*tshow.
From eSports to E3, KILLIONAIRES is a hilarious and fast-moving coming-of-age story inspired by the author’s own experiences in the game industry.
A twenty seven year game industry veteran, Mark Long is a prolific creator of video games, graphic novels, and screenplays living in Seattle. Long’s New York Times bestselling graphic novel, The Silence of Our Friends, is based on Long's childhood experiences in Texas during the civil rights movement in suburban Houston, Texas. KILLIONAIRES is his first novel.