Crossover: 2014

Chapter 80 Genius Game Designer

Dong Jiaqi has written many review articles on the games developed by Gray Forest in the past.

Now asking her to write an article analyzing GRAY FOREST himself can be said to be effortless.

It's completely within reach.

Although not to the point of opening his mouth.

But at least she doesn't need to collect additional information.

Of course, articles analyzing game developers are somewhat different from articles evaluating the game itself.

Articles analyzing game developers need to cover games though.

But the pattern should not be too narrow, and should not be limited to the game itself.

But from the perspective of the entire game industry.

All in all, don't give people a petty feeling.

It may be the reason why people feel refreshed on happy occasions.

Dong Jiaqi didn't bother thinking much, and soon came up with an idea, and wrote:
Since the mobile phone quickly entered the smart age, the "mobile game craze" began soon, and various mobile games became popular.

The explosion of mobile games has achieved the nirvana of countless developers.

Of course, the so-called achievement of countless developers here is more precisely the achievement of countless development teams.

The reason for this is that the game development process is complex.

Every process of game design is extremely professional.

Therefore, R&D work is usually done in teams.

But there are exceptions to everything.

Some pioneers in the industry still like to fight alone, and like to complete all the work in the game development process by themselves.

We usually refer to such people as individual game developers.

Although the courage of individual game developers is worthy of respect.

But a fact in recent years is that:
There are very few well-known individual game developers in the field of game development in my country.

But these are all past tense!

The emergence of GRAY FOREST ended this past.

Although Gray Forest was not known half a month ago.

But in the past two weeks, the majority of mobile game players can be said to be familiar with this name.

Maybe you haven't played a few of the games he developed.

But you should also have heard of several games he designed.

No matter "Life Reopening Simulator" or "2048" or "FLAPPPY BIRD".

Without exception, these games are all from the talented game developer GRAY FOREST.

Just being brilliant can't express the extraordinaryness of Gray Forest.

GRAY FOREST is a real genius developer.

Why is it said that GRAY FOREST is a genius developer?

The past achievements of GRAY FOREST can be described as brilliant.

The games developed by it have broken many domestic records one after another.

Such as the fastest million download records, the fastest ten million download records, the fastest one hundred thousand comment records and so on.

In addition, the game "FLAPPPY BIRD" developed by it is currently the game with the highest word-of-mouth index of domestic mobile games.

The game "Life Reopening Simulator" developed by it is the game with the highest topic index of domestic mobile games.

Similar laurels abound.

The most important point is that GRAY FOREST is famous not only in China.

From an international perspective, he is also a myth that is difficult to replicate in the camp of individual game developers.

Whether it's "2048" or "FLAPPY BIRD"

These two games have shown extremely dazzling results overseas.

Especially "2048" showed amazing dominance.

This game once ranked first in the overseas region of the AppStore.

And the game "FLAPPPY BIRD" has also become one of the favorite live broadcast materials of many YouTubers...

It is precisely because of this series of dazzling achievements.

Gray Forest successfully won the 2014 Apple Design Award.

Be aware of the millions of developers around the world.

There are only a handful of people who can win this award.

Be one of those ten.

The weight of GRAY FOREST can be seen.

In addition to the dazzling achievements, the most amazing thing about Gray Forest is its growth rate.

From an unknown individual developer to an extraordinary outstanding individual developer.

GRAY FOREST took less than eight days.

At the same time, GRAY FOREST is also the fastest individual developer in the AppStore to get 80% share since its establishment.

If GRAY FOREST himself will.

He can apply for these two Guinness World Records.

Of course this is just a joke.

Although there is a dazzling halo of achievements.

But in life, GRAY FOREST's performance is extremely low-key.

Except for occasional bubbling on social accounts.

Almost never makes any public remarks.

Do not mix the right and wrong of other developers at will.

The author also got the opportunity to interview GRAY FOREST after many rounds.

Through interviews, the author accidentally discovered that the developer of GRAY FOREST, who is so aggressive and domineering, is a student who just finished the college entrance examination.

He is only 18 years old now!
After the college entrance examination, the busy studies came to an end temporarily.

GRAY FOREST has devoted itself to game development.

No one's success is achieved overnight.

GRAY FOREST seems to have become famous overnight at a young age.

But behind his success comes from his own long-term hard work.

GRAY FOREST has been very interested in software development, game development and algorithm design since he was a child.

The story starts from the childhood of GRAY FOREST.

At that time, the minesweeper game on the computer was quite popular.

Most other children will focus on how to achieve a shorter time for this game.

But GRAY FOREST focus is different from others.

He is more interested in how to realize this game.

And interest is the best teacher.

As early as 09, GRAY FOREST, who had just entered junior high school, taught himself several programming languages ​​such as C++, JAVA, and python.

Afterwards, GRAY FOREST successively learned a lot of knowledge including webpage production and animation design.

Of course, with Gray Forest's modesty.

It is not difficult for us to judge that these are actually just the tip of the iceberg of knowledge that Gray Forest usually dabbles in.

The most important thing is that GRAY FOREST does not read dead books.

His studies are not limited to theory.

In fact, as early as 2012, Gray Forest, who was just a freshman in high school, used HTML, CSS and other languages ​​to make his first small game in his life.

Although the degree of completion of this small game is already quite high.

However, due to various reasons, the game was not released to the public in the end.

But according to GRAY FOREST himself.

This game may appear as an easter egg in the products he develops in the future.

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Speaking of the recent popular games of GRAY FOREST
Although he has been immersed in programming for a long time.

But in fact, apart from the fact that the game "Life Reopening Simulator" was conceived by him during his sophomore holiday

The remaining two games are not long-conceived works.

Not only did not conceive for a long time.

Instead, it was all his "improvisation".

Although the game "FLAPPPY BIRD" does not hurt the majority of players.

But GRAY FOREST actually only took one day to develop this game.

And during this day, GRAY FOREST's main energy is also on the art design.

The programming part basically took him no time.

The game "2048" Gray Forest was completed in just one night.

The author has also met some game developers online before.

When they develop a game, they often have to think for a long time about an idea.

It is completely different from the situation where thinking is flowing like a fountain in Gray Forest.

Perhaps this is the difference between mortals and geniuses.

(End of this chapter)