Chapter 80 Genius Game Designer(1/2)
Dong Jiaqi has written many review articles on past games developed by GRAY FOREST.
Now it would be effortless for her to write an article analyzing GRAY FOREST himself.
It's completely within reach.
Although it's not yet open to the point of coming.
But at least she doesn't need to collect additional information.
Of course, there are some differences between articles analyzing game developers and articles evaluating the games themselves.
Although articles analyzing game developers also need to involve games.
But the pattern cannot be too narrow, and it cannot be limited to the game itself.
But start from the perspective of the entire game industry.
All in all, it should not give people a feeling of being petty.
Maybe it’s the reason why people feel refreshed during happy events.
Dong Jiaqi didn't think much, and soon came up with an idea, and wrote:
Since mobile phones quickly entered the smart era, the "mobile game craze" quickly began, and various mobile games have become popular.
The explosion of mobile games has brought nirvana to countless developers.
Of course, the so-called achievement of countless developers here is more precisely the achievement of countless development teams.
The reason why this situation occurs is because the game development process is complicated.
Every process of game design is extremely professional.
Therefore, R&D work is usually completed through teamwork.
But there are exceptions to everything.
Some top players in the industry still prefer to work alone and complete all the work in the game development process by themselves.
We usually call such people individual game developers.
Although the courage of individual game developers is worthy of respect.
But a fact in recent years is:
There are few well-known individual game developers in the field of game development in my country.
But these are all things of the past!
The appearance of GRAY FOREST ended this past.
Although GRAY FOREST was not well known half a month ago.
But in the past half month, the majority of mobile game players have become familiar with this name.
Maybe you haven't played several games he developed.
But you should also have heard of several games he designed.
Whether it's "Life Restart Simulator" or "2048" or "FLAPPY BIRD".
Without exception, these games are all created by the talented game developer GRAY FOREST.
Talent alone cannot express the extraordinary nature of GRAY FOREST.
GRAY FOREST is a truly talented developer.
Why is GRAY FOREST said to be a genius developer?
GRAY FOREST's past achievements can be described as brilliant.
The games he developed have broken many domestic records one after another.
Such as the fastest million download record, the fastest 10 million download record, the fastest 100,000 comment record, etc.
In addition, the game "FLAPPY BIRD" developed by it is currently the game with the highest reputation index among domestic mobile games.
The game "Life Restart Simulator" developed by it is the most popular domestic mobile game.
There are countless similar laurels.
The most important thing is that GRAY FOREST is not only famous in China.
From an international perspective, he is also a hard-to-copy myth among individual game developers.
Whether it's "2048" or "FLAPPY BIRD"
Both games have performed extremely well overseas.
Especially "2048" showed amazing dominance.
This game once topped the list of AppStore overseas.
The game "FLAPPY 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.
You know, among millions of developers around the world.
There are only ten people who can win this award.
Can become one of these ten people.
The weight of GRAY FOREST is evident.
In addition to its dazzling achievements, the most amazing thing about GRAY FOREST is its growth rate.
Grow from an unknown individual developer to an extraordinary and outstanding individual developer.
GRAY FOREST took less than eight days.
At the same time, GRAY FOREST is also the fastest individual developer in the App Store to receive 80% of the share since its establishment.
If GRAY FOREST I am willing.
He can definitely 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 behaves extremely low-key.
Except for occasionally bubbling on social accounts.
Almost never makes any public remarks.
We also don’t want to get involved in the rights and wrongs of other developers.
The author also got the opportunity to interview GRAY FOREST after many twists and turns.
Through the interview, the author unexpectedly discovered that GRAY FOREST, such a domineering and arrogant developer, is a student who has just completed 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 himself wholeheartedly to game development.
No one's success comes overnight.
GRAY FOREST seems to have become famous overnight.
But behind his success comes his long-term hard work.
GRAY FOREST has been extremely interested in software development, game development and algorithm design since he was a child.
The story begins with GRAY FOREST’s childhood.
At that time, minesweeper games on computers were quite popular.
Most of the other children will focus on how to make this game shorter.
But GRAY FOREST's focus is different from others.
He was more interested in how to implement the game.
And interest is the best teacher.
As early as 2009, GRAY FOREST, who had just entered junior high school, successively taught himself several programming languages such as C++, JAVA and python.
After that, GRAY FOREST continued to learn many things including web page production and animation design.
Of course, with the modesty of GRAY FOREST.
It is not difficult for us to judge that these are actually just the tip of the iceberg of the knowledge that GRAY FOREST usually involves.
The most important thing is that GRAY FOREST does not study hard.
His studies did not stop at theory.
In fact, as early as 2012, GRAY FOREST, who was just a freshman in high school, used HTML, CSS and other languages to create his first mini-game.
To be continued...