Crossover: 2014

Chapter 277 Unexpected Success

Lin Hui didn't know why Huang Jing suddenly mentioned the types of characters in the mini-game he developed before.

Could it be that something went wrong?Impossible, in order to avoid some extremely fatal mistakes due to the difference between the two time-spaces, Lin Hui still supplemented the relevant information through various channels. It is a large theropod dinosaur, and the English vocabulary Tyrannosaurus rex corresponding to the species name of the Tyrannosaurus rex in this time and space is exactly the same as that in the previous life. The most important thing is that the Tyrannosaurus rex in this time and space was also extinct in the Cretaceous-Paleogene period where extinct.This is also the reason why Lin Hui dared to copy this game from his previous life. After all, even if he brought over the dinosaur mini game from his previous life, Lin Hui didn't need to change the corresponding story background of the two games almost completely unchanged. What additional adjustments should be made.

Why did Huang Jing suddenly mention the price of the game and the characters of the game now? Could it be that Lin Hui had overlooked something before?

Just listen to Huang Jing's explanation: "Because Tyrannosaurus Rex played the most important role in dinosaurs in the novels, movies and video games of the "Jurassic Park" and "Jurassic World" series, and in various children's books, In museum exhibits, Tyrannosaurus rex is basically a classic dinosaur image that will be introduced when the concept of "dinosaur" is mentioned. In this case, Tyrannosaurus rex or Tyrannosaurus rex is actually the "modern dinosaur culture" in the beautiful country. " and "American Dinosaur Fossils", one of the most representative and well-known dinosaurs. It can be said that making game characters into Tyrannosaurus rex overseas has a certain degree of IP popularity. With a fairly high reputation, I think you can increase the price appropriately, even if it is raised to $3, there will still be a large number of fans who will pay for this game."

After hearing this, Lin Hui nodded thoughtfully, and with Lin Hui's approval, Huang Jing continued: "In addition, I think you can directly change the name of the game to English abbreviation, after all, the pronunciation of 'T-Rex' and Writing is easier to pronounce than a full name, and it spreads more widely.”

Lin Hui really didn’t expect what Huang Jing said before. As for why he didn’t think of it, it’s just because of the difference in cultural background. This small incident also reminds Lin Hui that if he wants to make better games in the future, he must be cultural first. After all, he knows himself and the enemy. Only then can we survive a hundred battles. As far as the facts are concerned, Huang Jing's proposal now is indeed reasonable.

Although Lin Hui is very confident in the technology he possesses, Lin Hui is still able to accept reasonable opinions with an open mind, not to mention that Huang Jing's previous suggestion on the software South Wind Pro has already made Lin Hui a lot of money. Yes, so this time Lin Hui didn't hesitate for too long, and accepted Huang Jing's opinion after a little thought. After finishing the call with Huang Jing, Lin Hui modified the previous software accordingly. It was changed to "T-REX's Journey", and the price was changed to $3. (Of course, because of various bank card discounts and the like, the actual pricing seen by overseas users should be $2.99, plus taxes and fees.)
Although what Huang Jing said just now is very reasonable, Lin Hui still feels that it is a little empty to make such a monotonous game for 3 dollars, and it is still necessary to make some adjustments on the basis of the original game, but a game like "Dinosaur Game" The content of the game Lin Hui is already quite rich, and it is impossible to make too many modifications. In the case of the dinosaur mini-game, which is already quite mature in the previous life, a large modification may destroy the content of the game itself.

Considering the successful experience of making small games before, Lin Hui finally just replaced all the prompts in the game with some more literary and stylish sayings.

For example, when the original little dinosaur hits an obstacle and reaches a score, only the corresponding score will be displayed.

At the same time as the score displayed now, it will also display: "You have been on this planet alone for XX years."

Of course, a game corresponding to overseas, this is only the corresponding Chinese, and the corresponding English must be replaced with a word that is more in line with the habits of crooked nuts.

This kind of adjustment is not a new setting added by Lin Hui, because in "Dinosaur Game", the little dinosaur will continue to move from left to right in the black and white desert scene, and the player needs to control the dinosaur to jump or jump Crouch down to avoid obstacles such as cacti and Pteranodon. Players can press SPACE, ↑ or click the little dinosaur on the mobile device to make the little dinosaur jump; Time advances and gradually speeds up until the little dinosaur hits an obstacle and the game ends. When the player accumulates about 700 points, the game scene will change from the original white to a dark gray background, symbolizing the change of day and night, and the decorations such as clouds will become night Only the moon and stars will appear, and the game will switch between day and night scenes as the game progresses.Players need to play continuously for 1700 million years (in-game time) to reach the highest score designed by the game.The reason why the time is set to 1700 million years corresponds to the time when Tyrannosaurus rex (extinct in the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event) existed on the earth, that is to say, the original game was designed to be on this planet with real dinosaurs The duration of existence corresponds to that, and the time a player spends playing a single game also corresponds to the travel time of dinosaurs.

It can even be said that the travel time of Tyrannosaurus rex in the original game is a dark line that fits the background of the game.

It’s just that people usually pay more attention to scores and ignore this dark line. Of course, because the original dinosaur game was not specially designed as a game, this dark line may also be deliberately buried by the developers.

What Lin Hui has to do now is to make this dark line clearer, so that people can notice the design concept behind the game.

Soon Lin Hui completed the corresponding adjustments.

In addition, Lin Hui added a leaderboard function to this monotonous game after adjustment. Of course, this leaderboard is not a score leaderboard.

After all, no matter how you play in the end, the highest score you can achieve is the same. This leaderboard is just a list arranged in the order of achieving the highest score.

After modifying the game, Lin Hui uploaded the game again.

It was approved shortly thereafter.

Lin Hui set up an overseas account and found that the game "T-rex's Journey" can already be found.

As for the rating, it is 4+, which is basically classified as harmless to humans and animals.

When the game "T-rex's Journey" was launched, Lin Hui still checked the Apple platform exclusive this time, and the exclusivity period was 6 months.

After choosing Apple's monopoly, follow the terms of the previous agreement with Apple.

Lin Hui will automatically have a guaranteed 85% share.

Although even if he didn't choose to monopolize the Apple platform, as Lin Hui's current status as an extraordinary developer, Lin Hui still has 80% of the guaranteed share.

However, a once-hot game like "Dinosaur Game" has huge potential. Lin Hui estimates that the final revenue is likely to reach tens of millions of dollars.

In this case, even 1 percent means a lot of wealth, let alone 5 percent.

As for the release of Lin Hui's new game, the iOS platform is once again exclusive. Is it too unfriendly to Android users?

nonexistent!

Many people may not understand the meaning expressed by the words "piracy is rampant".

The fact is that even Lin Hui has not developed any games specifically for the Android platform.

It also hardly affects Android users playing Linhui's original games.

For example, Lin Hui made a few games not long ago, except for the game "HILL CLIMB RACING", because Lin Hui used some advanced design concepts and relatively alternative development techniques, so far there has been no follower. In addition, there are several other small games that Lin Hui has made before, whether it is "Life Restart Simulator", "2048" or "FLAPPPY BIRD", these games have basically been broken long ago.

Many technicians may not be able to make games if you ask them to develop games, but the games developed by others basically pass by from the side, and they can quickly make a similar one for you.

Especially in our country, there are very few technicians engaged in the development of original independent games in our country, but this kind of technicians with their own Sharingan (which can be used to make almost the same) abound. I don't know if it is a kind of irony to come out with something that belongs to me.

Specific to the game, the game after being cracked is often reissued by these technical followers with a slight modification.

This has to be a developer with a bit of conscience.

And some rampant pirates don't even change it and send it out.

The most outrageous thing is that this kind of pirated application is not a surreptitious APK to get it on some pheasant website.

Instead, it is passed directly to the app stores of some mobile phone manufacturers in a grand manner.

However, some mobile phone manufacturers accept these applications almost without discrimination.

The reason why there is no discrimination is ultimately because such manufacturers are selectively ignoring this behavior, or even conniving and tacitly acquiescing similar behavior.

As for why?After all, the Haikou boasted by every mobile phone manufacturer is the benchmark against Apple.

Not only ordinary benchmarking, but also all-round benchmarking, not only the hardware is aligned, but the app store is also aligned with Apple.

In this case, the app stores run by mobile phone manufacturers also need to grow.

However, the growth of the application market does not happen overnight, so if the quality of the application cannot be improved in the short term, then the application scale must be fixed first, and the application scale must be there.

When the quality of the application is not enough, we can only use the quantity to make it up. Naturally, all cat and dog applications are put in it.

This behavior has contributed to the rampant piracy.

And the above is just one reason why piracy is rampant, there are many other reasons.

The problem of piracy in the previous life was quite serious. Lin Hui thought that this time and space would be a little better. It seems that he is really too optimistic.

Regardless of time and space, piracy is rampant.

Even Lin Hui feels that a fairly complete industrial chain has been formed when it comes to piracy.

However, even if the piracy industry chain is complete, in the final analysis, this thing is a gray industry or even a black industry.

Even though this kind of unscrupulous and rampant piracy, Lin Hui has no interest in dying for the time being.

But one day Lin Hui will fundamentally put an end to this phenomenon.

In addition, the same sentence, with Lin Hui's current rocket-like growth rate, now these people dare to pirate without any scruples, Lin Hui will see if these people will have the courage to continue after he has reached a certain level. pirated.

The future is expected!

Because Lin Hui checked the Apple platform exclusive agreement, when Lin Hui launched the game "T-rex's Journey".

Lin Hui found that the treatment was similar to that after the launch of "Hill Climb Racing".

Lin Hui noticed that there are a lot of directional promotions about "T-rex's Journey" and the default search in the search bar on large social platforms such as twitter and ins.

The default search means that users don't need to input anything, and they can jump to topics related to "T-rex's Journey" by clicking the search button.

Of course, Lin Hui was told that because of some other promotional content, although this targeted promotion can last for a while.

But the default search in the search bar can only last for two hours.

But Lin Hui can do it for this sake.

Although Lin Hui's appealing status in the game field is still not as strong as Jay Lun's appeal to fans when he released a new song.

But it won't be too bad.

At least Lin Hui feels that it is not a big problem for Xinyou to quickly form a certain popularity under the help of many propaganda methods.

In short, Lin Hui believes in its current appeal.

After all, the identity of Lin Hui GRAY FOREST often has its own enthusiasm.

The fact is just as Lin Hui estimated, Lin Hui has received a series of notifications from the background of individual developers one after another:

"Hello, dear developer, the game "T-rex's Journey" developed by you has been included in this week's App Store Selected New Games. During this period, it is best not to have a large version iteration to avoid unknown bugs that will affect players. The impact of the experience..."

"..."

"Hello, dear developer, the game you developed has successfully joined the AppStore Individual Developer Incentive Program, please check the link for details..."

"Congratulations to your extraordinary developer, the game "T-rex's Journey" you developed has successfully broken through 500 million (valid) downloads."

Looking at this series of news, Lin Hui knew that he had met success again.

Unexpected success.

……

Previously, Lin Hui made "Hill Climb Racing". Although it has a price in name, it is actually a free download game.

A free-to-play game like this depends on a lot of data such as the number of daily active users, the number of active paying users, the average revenue per user, the average revenue per paying user, and the payment ratio when measuring the revenue of the game.

"T-rex's Journey" is different, this is a buyout game.

For such a game, Lin Hui only needs to pay attention to the effective downloads to get a rough idea of ​​the income.

Now that the number of effective overseas downloads has exceeded 500 million, Lin Hui's share is definitely a huge sum.

(End of this chapter)