Crossover: 2014

Chapter 284 The Desperate Gap

On the night of June 6, when Lin Hui was leisurely replying to emails, many people were also not idle.

Dong Jiaqi was not idle at this time.

At this time, she is paying close attention to the series of data of the new game "T-rex's Journey" made by GRAY FOREST.

Although new games like "T-rex's Journey" are only available overseas.

But this does not prevent Dong Jiaqi, who is still in China, from noticing this game immediately.

In fact, every time Gray Forest releases a new game, Dong Jiaqi pays close attention to it.

A little differently, Dong Jiaqi in the past paid attention to the new tour created by Gray Forest in order to write related analysis articles.

But this is not the case now. Dong Jiaqi seldom writes articles now.

Different from the state of the polished commander some time ago, Dong Jiaqi's subordinates have recently assigned several intern editors.

In this case, although Dong Jiaqi now occasionally writes some articles, but most of the time, she just needs to leave it to her subordinates to do it for her.

What Dong Jiaqi has to do most of the time is just to check.

As for Dong Jiaqi, who doesn’t need to write analysis articles now, why is she still paying close attention to the new game created by Gray Forest?
Maybe it's just a habit I've developed in the past.

……

Speaking of "T-rex's Journey", Dong Jiaqi tried to play this game as soon as it was launched.

The content of the game "T-rex's Journey" is very simple.

It's nothing more than a little dinosaur parkour game.

In this game, players only need to operate the little dinosaur to avoid the random cacti and pterosaurs that appear randomly in the desert.

And when the little dinosaur hits an obstacle, it means the game is over GAME OVER.

The content of the game is very simple, and basically belongs to the kind that players will know as soon as they get started.

The game screen is simple, the game content focuses on the source, and there are almost no redundant things.

The game design language is still inherited from the previous games made by Gray God.

Dong Jiaqi feels that the game type of "T-rex's Journey" is a bit like the pixel bird that Lin Hui used to make.

From the perspective of style, "FLAPPPY BIRD" and "Dinosaur Game" are both minimalist in style.

The difference is that the game "T-rex's Journey" is obviously much less difficult to learn than Pixel Bird.

Of course, this perception of difficulty is only based on Dong Jiaqi's game level.

As for some game masters, Dong Jiaqi didn't feel that there was a big difference between those high players playing pixel bird and dinosaur games.

Regardless of the difficulty of operation, Dong Jiaqi feels that the game "T-rex's Journey" is a game that Lin Hui developed in the opposite direction after absorbing some experience from pixel birds. In other words, the game "T-rex's Journey" is a game that Gray God made before Pixel Bird, but it was only released until now.

But in any case, there is no doubt that the game "T-rex's Journey" has a strong personal style after all.

Such a game with a very obvious Gray God style, coupled with the blessing of Gray God's current reputation, it is very difficult to think about it.

After all, human behavior has more or less certain inertia.

When players get used to paying attention to GRAY FOREST.

Then the game created by Gray Forest will naturally be flopped by the players immediately.

The role of this "favor" in the normal operation cycle of a game is crucial.

Even a game made by a developer with little reputation is very good.

It also takes a long time to accumulate topicality and ferment word-of-mouth to form popularity.

The game produced by GRAY FOREST does not have to wait for this long period of time.

In the case that Gray God himself has a large number of gamers.

The formation of the game topic and the fermentation of the topic created by Gray God are almost instantaneous.

In fact, this is exactly the case. The topic of the game "T-rex's Journey" has formed very quickly, and the popularity has also risen very quickly.

When the topic and popularity are rapidly forming, positive feedback will be formed to promote the sales of the game, thus forming a situation where the game becomes popular.

……

The fact is exactly the same, through the data provided by some overseas game analysis platforms.

Dong Jiaqi learned that "T-rex's Journey", a small game developed by Gray Forest, had been downloaded more than 800 million times in the first day.

And this so-called 800 million downloads is just a conservative figure. Dong Jiaqi feels that the actual figure may be even more exaggerated than this.

After all, the data provided by third-party platforms generally has a certain lag.

Dong Jiaqi estimates that the actual effective downloads may have exceeded 1000 million times.

Although Lin Hui had made the game "HILL CLIMB RACING" before, the effective download volume is quite high.

However, the effective download volume of such a game that achieves its main revenue through in-game purchases is not very informative.

However, the effective downloads of a small buyout game like "T-rex's Journey" are almost directly linked to income.

According to a valid download of 3 dollars, 1000 million valid downloads.

Didn't the total revenue of such an inconspicuous little game reach 3000 million US dollars?

Um, even if it is calculated according to the 70% share.

There will also be more than 2000 million US dollars in the share of forest ash.

Excluding all kinds of messy development costs and various taxes, Dong Jiaqi estimates that Lin Hui's actual income will also exceed 1500 million US dollars.

The actual income of Lin Ash must be more.

Dong Jiaqi has also come into contact with many game developers, and knows a thing or two about game development.

Although GRAY FOREST paid great attention to the details of the game "T-rex's Journey", Dong Jiaqi didn't feel very strenuous when it came to game development.

After all, the operation logic of a small dinosaur game like "T-rex's Journey" is very simple. The little dinosaur in the game seems to be running all the time, but in fact it is just jumping up and down. What actually moves is the canvas with random cacti. To operate the little dinosaur, you only need to press two buttons up and down.

When it comes to things such as day and night alternation and collision detection, these things are easy to take time for Xiaobai, but these things are definitely not a big problem for Gray Forest.

Anyway, Dong Jiaqi feels that if a game like "T-rex's Journey" is developed by Gray Forest, neither the development difficulty nor the development cost will be too great.

Based on this, Dong Jiaqi felt that Lin Hui's after-tax income might be more than US$500 million.

Thinking that a game like "T-rex's Journey", which has swept tens of millions of dollars overseas, is probably just something that Gray Forest fiddled with after dinner, Dong Jiaqi was very emotional. so big!

In particular, Dong Jiaqi felt a lot of emotion after witnessing the growth of GRAY FOREST in the field of game development almost all the way.

It seems that he can only sigh weakly, and as for chasing after him, it is impossible.

Now the gap between Dong Jiaqi and Gray Forest is quite large.

The gap between the two made Dong Jiaqi feel extremely desperate.

(End of this chapter)