Reborn multinational giant

The excited fat man took two bottles of iced drinks from the refrigerator and handed them to Fang Zhe. He grabbed the mouse from Fang Zhe and continued to refresh the page.

After just swiping a few times, the page has new changes. The number of registrations for flappybird has finally changed from 0 to 1, and the number of registrations for stickhero has also increased to 4.

"Yes, I have"

"This flappybird has finally been downloaded." Although Fang Zhe was sitting next to him looking at the screen, he shouted out happily.

When Fang Zhe saw this, he felt relieved: "It seems that Pixel Wind still has a market in foreign countries."

Probably because many early FC games are pixel style, and many independent developers abroad have chosen pixel art with lower requirements for art because of resource problems in art. Over time, they have developed their own styles and gradually cultivated them. A group of game lovers who like this style.

In contrast, there were very few people in China who liked pixel games at this time. It was not until later that many fun mobile pixel games like Minecraft and many fun mobile pixel games were introduced to China, and the number of players who liked pixel-style games gradually increased.

Thinking of Minecraft, this is a highly free pixel sandbox game, which only came out in 2009 and has hundreds of millions of players worldwide.

Although Fang Zhe was very excited about this, he just simply played this game in his previous life and didn’t know much about the gameplay. If he did it, he couldn’t do better than the original producer. Give up the plan to develop it in the future.

However, if you do a global game distribution in the future, you can consider it as soon as possible to include it under the banner. After all, Microsoft later spent more than 2 billion US dollars in order to buy the company it belongs to.

The fat man said with emotion: "I was worried that this bird game was not played, but now it seems that there are users. I just don't know, after they play, will they scold you for being too low, not worth the $0.99 ."

"Probably not. I have already introduced the core gameplay and related graphics and texts of this game in the application details. If players choose to download it, it means they are still interested."

Fang Zhe doesn't think the game he made is not worth the price of US$0.99. Although there are many free games of this kind in later generations, mobile games are still extremely scarce, and each has its value.

Foreign users have long been cultivated by the big companies for many years of paying habit. Otherwise, Sega’s Super Monkey Ball would not have been released for the first three days in the appstore, and it would have more than 500,000 downloads. It is priced at $9.99. , Fang Zhe’s prices for these two games are just a fraction of it.

Two points later, the number of registrations for the two games reached 4 and 11 respectively.

The total income has also reached US$14.85, which is more than 100 yuan converted into RMB. You know, this is only the early morning of July 11th. There should be only a small number of iPhone 2.0 users who have completed the upgrade and appeared in the phone. appstore.

Currently, the US user who has the largest number of iPhones, because of the time difference, it is still the morning of the 10th. If you want to buy iPhone 3g or upgrade the 2.0 system, you have to wait more than ten hours.

"Fat man, go to sleep, it's still early, after the day, more people will download."

"We hurried to sleep and recharge our energy, waiting for tomorrow to harvest the wool of capitalism."

The fat man kept refreshing the page all night, and his fingers were a little tired. Although he was still excited, he still listened to Fang Zhe’s words, “Okay, let’s wash my face and sleep. Grandma’s, I found that games are the most profitable in the world. In the future, I will also make games."

The two turned off their computers, washed them briefly, and went to bed quickly. Although excited and unable to sleep, after a while, the two of them fell asleep because of being too sleepy.

After 7 o'clock in the morning the next morning, the sky outside the window was already bright. Fang Zhe, who had just woke up, glanced at the fat man who was still sleeping. He couldn't restrain his heart, and quietly turned on the computer and opened the statistics page.

flappybird, with 42 registrations, revenue of $41.58.

stickhero, with 123 registrations, and revenue of $121.77.

The total income is 163.35 US dollars, equivalent to RMB, which is more than 1,000 yuan.

Fang Zhe smiled with excitement. The numbers on the page gave Fang Zhe great confidence and convinced him that his first pot of gold should be dug out from here.

Fang Zhe is like a sick miser, sitting in front of the computer, refreshing the page over and over again, waiting for the number to continue to change. After the daytime, the growth rate of downloads has increased significantly.

The number of flappybird registrations broke through from 42 to 50 in less than half an hour.

And stickhero, which seems more fun, has registered 140 after half an hour.

If the current growth rate is maintained, the total download volume of the two games today will exceed 1,000 without a problem.Considering that after 12 noon, the United States, which has the most iPhone users, will also reach July 11th, and there should be many users upgrading iPhone 2.0 by then.

In the afternoon, the iPhone 3g will basically be available for sale in more than 20 countries. After these two points in time, the download volume should increase greatly. As for the specific increase, Fang Zhe cannot estimate for the time being.

Think about the 500,000 downloads of Sega’s Super Monkey Ball back then, with an average of at least more than 100,000 downloads per day. It is impossible for me to have even a fraction of others.

The fat man with sleepy eyes just opened his eyes and saw Fang Zhe sitting in front of the computer.

While rubbing his eyes, he asked, "How much is it?"

Fang Zhe glanced at the watch hung on the wall. It was 8.30 in the morning. Some countries that are faster than China's time have already started selling iPhones. In a while, Hong Kong should also be on sale.

"Flappybird, the number of registrations is 59, stickhero, the number of registrations is 161. The total revenue of the two games is 217.8 US dollars."

"I'll go, that's more than 1,000 yuan. I slept for a night, and the living expenses of more than a month will be paid out. Can I be more brutal?" The fat man quickly got out of the bed in a big red pants. Climbed to the computer.

Fang Zhe looked at him and said, “It will increase even faster later. If God saves face, I can recover all the development costs today.”

The fat man re-examined Fang Zhe with a look at the national treasure, and said, "Brother, teach me how to play games!"

"Want to learn, you put on your pants first. With your white skin and big red pants, my eyes are almost poisoned."

Fang Zhe has a hundred support and approval for Fatty’s idea of ​​making games. He will definitely make more games in the future, and even start his own company. If Fatty also makes games, it will be a lot of help. .

Relatively speaking, Fatty is also a good seedling for making games. He has a program basis, plays a lot of games, and has some understanding of many gameplays. As long as he is slightly guided and practiced in a few projects, he can become a general.

All day long, apart from eating and going to the bathroom, the two stayed in Fatty's bedroom. Fang Zhe also called his mother and said that he would stay at Fatty's house for another day.In order to make the page refresh automatically at regular intervals, Fang Zhe also specially added an automatic refresh plug-in to the browser.

Fang Zhe looked at the numbers on the page from time to time, while introducing various game development-related things to the fat man, and at the same time gave him the address of the post previously posted on cocoachina, so that he could learn from the content of the post.

Fang Zhe’s iPhone is a jailbreak version 1.0. If you want to upgrade to 2.0, you have to wait for the online jailbreak version to be installed. It’s not that Fang Zhe doesn’t want to use the official version, but for development. And now Apple doesn’t support the mainland at all. If you want to use the official version, you can't use it. Fang Zhe and the others who bought parallel imports are considered black users.

After 23:00 in the evening, Fang Zhe and Fatty, who had been excited all day, looked at the numbers on the screen, and they were a little numb.

Fatty didn’t bother to use a calculator to calculate. The number of flappybird registrations was 822, and the number of stickhero registrations was 3547. The total income was 4,325.31 US dollars, which is equivalent to more than 30,000 yuan. It's not as cool as today.

Now, two games will have a download in less than one minute on average. That is to say, regardless of the share with Apple, Fang Zhe will earn nearly 5 yuan per minute.

Think of Bill Gates buying millions of luxury cars in seconds, Fang Zhe feels that he still has a lot of room for improvement.