Time Travel: 2014 - Chapter 389

c389 growth in reputation

If the articles on this person’s homepage are all original by this person, then this person’s level as a planner is indeed pretty good.

Although Lin Hui admitted that this flying tiger has very good strength.

However, Lin Hui is not possessed by Liu Bei and wants to recruit talents whenever he sees them.

There is one thing to say, although a good planning is often very important in the development process of a game.

But Lin Hui is mainly engaged in transportation work for the time being. In many cases, Lin Hui himself can do the work of planning and planning during normal game development.

Unless he is tinkering with a game that is very unfamiliar to Lin Hui, Lin Hui does not need a plan in the short term.

And to take a step back, even if Lin Hui needs a plan, when it comes to talent recruitment, he can go to a headhunting company, he can go to HR, he can go to social recruitment, he can…

There are also formal channels for talent introduction.

Lin Hui didn’t go so far as to say that he would randomly recruit people from overseas forums like this.

In short, even though he deeply appreciated this flyingtiger article, Lin Hui was only slightly interested in it and did not take any further action.

Speaking of which, “T-rex’s Journey” is a very popular game on many game forums, which saves Lin Hui a lot of trouble.

In this case, there is no need for Lin Hui to go overboard in promotion.

…

Lin Hui remembered when he was promoting “FLAPPY BIRD”.

At the beginning, a lot of money was spent on publicity. It would not be an exaggeration to say that it was a crazy amount of money.

Lin Hui remembers that he spent US$1 million just on publicity overseas.

One million dollars.

Although this million US dollars is nothing to Lin Hui today.

But in the eyes of Lin Hui at the time, it was still a fortune that should not be underestimated.

After all, Lin Hui didn’t have much money in total at that time.

However, despite spending huge sums of money on publicity.

But unfortunately, due to the time difference, the high cost of publicity did not achieve immediate results.

Lin Hui remembers that the game “FLAPPY BIRD” achieved 23.41 million effective downloads in a short period of time.

However, 23.05 million of the effective downloads came from the domestic AppStore, while there were only 360,000 effective downloads in overseas areas.

After waiting for daybreak in most overseas areas, Lin Hui’s huge investment in publicity slowly began to bear fruit.

With this incident as a lesson, Lin Hui was very accommodating to the habits of overseas users when “HILL CLIMB RACING” was launched.

However, games like “T-rex’s Journey” are launched overseas this time.

The online time set by Lin Hui was just based on his usual living habits and did not deliberately consider the time difference.

As for the inconvenience of overseas players and whether they were taking a break, Lin Hui didn’t even think about it.

However, even Lin Hui’s situation did not affect Lin Hui’s successful overseas downloads of the game “T-rex’s Journey”, which quickly exceeded 5 million times and became a good topic.

This fully demonstrates that GRAY FOREST, as a game developer, has strong enough appeal to overseas players.

This achievement also illustrates the growth of Lin Hui’s reputation from the side.

If the game “T-rex’s Journey” develops according to the current trend.

Lin Hui doesn’t have to worry about not being able to make further progress in overseas markets.

Lin Hui estimates that according to this growth trend, it is very possible that the game can be effectively downloaded overseas for more than 10 million times within the first day.

Lin Hui even thinks that the performance of this game is likely to set a bunch of records in the history of games.

After all, the predecessor of the game “T-rex’s Journey”, the dinosaur mini-game in the previous life, holds many records.

In this time and space, even if “T-rex’s Journey” cannot completely replicate the glory of its previous life, it is still possible to even set one or two mini-game records.

Lin Hui’s eyes were already looking higher and further away.

Of course, Lin Hui no longer cares much about what kind of results he can achieve in small games like this.

It’s useless even if he cares, even though Lin Hui currently has a relatively detached status among individual developers in the app store.

But settlement will have to wait until tomorrow.

Now that there are no major problems with “T-rex’s Journey”, Lin Hui might as well focus his energy elsewhere.

…

Lin Hui thought about it carefully, except for some trivial matters.

At present, the two most important things before Lin Hui are that the two previously finalized contracts still need to be further dealt with by Lin Hui.

According to the formal transfer contract previously reached with Pingcheng regarding quick instructions, it stipulates:

Lin Hui transferred all software ownership related to the shortcut software, including creativity, to Apple.

Apple needs to pay Lin Hui US$75 million in four installments.

An initial payment of US$45 million was made to Lin Hui when the formal contract was signed.

The remaining 30 million U.S. dollars were settled in three installments, each time settling at 5 million U.S. dollars, 10 million U.S. dollars, and 15 million U.S. dollars respectively.

These settlement times depend on the progress of Lin Hui’s upgrade of the shortcut command software.

Lin Hui needs to upgrade the shortcut commands three times based on the current shortcut commands.

They are adaptability upgrade, functional upgrade and expandability upgrade…

Precisely because the handover of software always involves endless upgrades and various issues related to handover and after-sales.

As a result, software contracts are often said to be easy to sign but difficult to perform.

However, Lin Hui didn’t need to panic. He just had to do what he should do step by step.

As for the three upgrades that Lin Hui will be mainly responsible for, he has long been confident about this.

Especially the adaptability upgrade was a piece of cake for Lin Hui.

The so-called adaptability upgrade is nothing more than asking Lin Hui to make the shortcut command software he previously created compatible with the upcoming iOS8 version.

To be honest, it is easy for current technical personnel to have various problems when handing over technology to Apple.

But these problems are often caused by unfamiliarity with Apple’s technical specifications.

In Lin Hui’s case, this problem basically did not exist. In his previous life, Lin Hui had done a lot to make Apple software compatible.

Without bragging, Lin Hui may even know Apple’s technical specifications better than Apple’s official staff at this time.

What’s more, Lin Hui also knows some features of future iOS versions.

In this case, even if Apple makes Lin Hui compatible with iOS12 or even higher versions of iOS, it won’t be a big problem.

Of course, it is impossible for Lin Hui to be compatible with the iOS12 version in the short term.

After all, even the official version of iOS8 has not yet been officially released.

At present, only the beta version of iOS8 is still half-hidden, let alone iOS12, which will not be launched in a few years.

The five million US dollars corresponding to the adaptability upgrade is basically a piece of cake for Lin Hui.

The functional upgrade is a function that Apple requires Lin Hui to further develop the shortcut command software.

The functional completeness should be at least 40% better than the current shortcut command.

This is not difficult for Lin Hui.