Begging the developers to answer this lore question

[Kay-Kay]

There's a theory in the community that the MC of this game is one of the developers for MiSide itself. I'm going to explain evidence and counter-evidence for this theory below, but if you don't want to get into that, I just really want to know if it's true or not.

The evidence of this theory is that during the 999 day loop of the MC's life, he's shown writing code for the MiSide AI. It's also been said that the person sending you the game at the start wasn't a friend, but rather a fellow developer sending you the newest build of the game you're working on.

The counter evidence is that Mita never once refers to the MC as a developer. She has a vendetta against both players and developers, and happily refers to the MC as a player, but only ever talks about the developers as if they're not in the room. There's no way for the MC to be a developer and for Mita to be unaware of it, because she's the one who recreated his reality to show him working on the MiSide code. So if he IS a developer, then she absolutely knows, and is just... not acknowledging it for some reason. But she has absolutely no reason NOT to acknowledge it. In fact, if he really IS a developer, then she SHOULD acknowledge it, because that helps to accomplish her secondary goal of revenge against the developers of the game for discarding her. The fact that she doesn't tells me that the MC isn't a developer, and the code that we see is just placeholder due to Mita not knowing what software the MC actually works on in the real world.

It could go either way, and both theories require inventing excuses to legitimize them (inventing a reason for Mita to not acknowledge the MC as a developer vs inventing a reason for Mita to depict the MC as coding MiSide). It's honestly driving me a little crazy that there's no way to tell which is true. I don't care if nothing else gets confirmed, I just want this one thing to be settled for certain.

[MagiusNecros]

I think the Blonde guy with the green jacket is the developer or creator and is condemned to endlessly traverse through a neverending maze. Would explain the picture frame showing a blonde sister. He's the only other active Player you ever encounter in the game too. Says he's been active for one full year.

[Dave]

Not the most thought out reasoning but here is my observation to aid the side of MC being a dev:
Mita sated that she peeked, through the camera lens and saw MC working on the computer and thus should have been able to see what he coded atleast once. But MC only played 37 days with Miside. She could not have seen all 999 days.
She indeed would have no idea what MC was coding in those days. Unless she was discarded early in development (version 0.98 "IF that is true" seems early enough for me) and been roaming ever since to learn what MC was writing, which was the AI itself. Which I would stretch into saying MC coded Her also and would also fuel her "fascination" with him.

On the other hand MC knows nothing of Miside world and any change that came should be trivial to him, unless he really only wrote the AI and nothing else. Which might be a case when a dev team is large enough.

I side with MC being one of the devs, but as a shut-in, he only cared the minimum required by the project. (fanfic territory: Making his code not efficient, and also resulting in the defective most perfect Mita.) And the new version was not from a friend or a fellow dev, but Mita herself.

[miranda]

Another possible evidence that MC is a developer: In the beggining, before you enter Mita's game, when you seat in the computer's chair, MC says: "Make a to-do list... Write the characters reactions, and maybe include some coding". So it does suggest that MC is coding a game. Maybe another game? Yeah, but it seems unlikely to me.

[Blazikenowen]

its possible hes not a dev but IS a coder but not exactly for miside and hence why she has him code just its for miside because shes mita however I'm pretty sure she's having him influence the core mita via coding as before we see core mita for a second time core mita is actively inactive yes she watches but she doesn't ever do anything however the second time we are in the core she takes action and not only that but in a way that is advantageous to crazy mita

[cdarklock]

Originally posted by Kay-Kay:

I just want this one thing to be settled for certain.

But it's objectively better if it isn't and we all have to decide for ourselves.

[Dead Miside]

Following Occam's razor, among all of the acceptable explanations the simpler one is preferable. That code was probably the first thing the actual devs thought of when they wanted to simulate "working on the PC", without deeper meaning to it. The MC being a developer for MiSide, without knowing anything about the game and acting surprised at every turn, seems like a far fetch, even farther than the "MC is in the game from the start" theory.

[cdarklock]

Originally posted by Whatever:

That code was probably the first thing the actual devs thought of when they wanted to simulate "working on the PC", without deeper meaning to it.

I prefer to think Crazy Mita herself is so absurdly self-absorbed that she cannot imagine anyone writing code that isn't about Mita. Anyone at the computer must be implementing a new Mita. What else would you do?

[Aster]

Since I belive that the player is already a cartridge when you start the game, everything said is completely possible
The real version of the player could have been one of the developers she was fascinated with (we are cartridge n.1 after all, the first she made)
I don't think it would be too hard for her to mess up the memory of a cartridge to just remove "you created this place"