Okay isekai pitch

Starts out pretty bog standard

Heroic boy accidentally awakens in the world of his FAVORITE MMO VIDEO GAME

Has adventures

But starts to realize he’s not in a video game it’s an actual world

Despite him treating it as a game world at first

Eventually he discovers that the reason this world looks like his favorite video game is that the head of some big organization in game land is ALSO from our world

In this land he’s a powerful wizard or leader of the church or whatever

In our world he is the CEO of a major corporation

That makes video games

He’s bouncing back and forth and made a game based on the other world

I dunno I just think it could be a fun swerve

is the hero also capable of bouncing back and forth

That does seem like a neat twist.

maybe the hero can figure it out later

ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ : no I think hero is trapped

And the ceo guy doesn’t want him to get back to earth for fear that he’ll ruin everything if he starts revealing his secrets

I like this twist as a conceit.

Is it more interesting if the Archwizard is or is not the antagonist? Plus how many real people did he adapt as NPCs for the game?

If the "archwizard"/ceo is antagonist, you can drive home the isekai trap by having him constantly crunching numbers and making decisions about "number go up" to the detriment of the world around them

NekoInc, MSPM : I picture the CEO as a major antagonist if not THE main antagonist

Anyway I'm not really planning on developing this any further so if anyone else wants to steal this idea in some form it's up for grabs