Time Travel: 2014

Although after uploading the game on the night of the 9th.

Lin Hui went to bed early.

But this does not mean that he is not concerned about the performance of this APP.

After all, this is the first APP he has developed in this time and space.

Lin Hui still desperately hopes that this game will succeed.

Get up together in the morning on the 10th.

Lin Hui couldn't wait to know how the game "Life Restart Simulator" was going to be.

As an "old father", Lin Hui can't wait to see his "child" grow up.

…

Just picked up the phone.

Lin Hui saw that the small screen of the 5s was densely packed with notifications.

But he still habitually checks the class news first.

Before I even clicked in, I saw a suffocating 999+ unread messages.

Lin Hui thought something big had happened.

After all, the class group was originally silent after the college entrance examination.

Roughly turned it over.

Only then did I realize that they were all about the game "Life Restart Simulator".

This surprised Lin Hui.

But he also wanted to see what his classmates thought of the game.

…

The top news was posted by He Siyuan, a senior game explorer in Lin Hui’s class, at 11:30 last night:

"Hey, let me tell you, I found an interesting game called "Life Restart Simulator"..."

"[Screenshot][Screenshot][Screenshot]...I think the plot setting is quite interesting..."

Liu Yao: "Have you just discovered this game? I watched a female anchor play it and found it interesting, so I downloaded it too. I've been playing it for more than an hour.

By the way, this game is so ridiculous. After playing it for about half an hour, I somehow unlocked the plot of cultivating immortality. "

He Siyuan: "I have also unlocked this plot, but I always get ripped off every day!"

Liu Yao: "It's not normal to have your body taken away from you. I once had my body taken away from me three times and I didn't die!"

He Siyuan: "Is it possible to survive after being deprived of one's body? Still not dead three times??? Are you kidding me?"

Liu Yao: “It’s good to have pictures and the truth! [Screenshot]”

He Siyuan: "Damn, you are so lucky. Once I practiced until I was three hundred years old, but I was killed by a powerful man, and all my fellow Taoists were snatched away!!! [Sad][Crying][ anger]"

Liu Yao: "Pfft... Forgive me for laughing unkindly..."

The conversation between the two broke the silence of the class after the college entrance examination.

Directly explode a bunch of divers:

Chu Han: "Isn't it called "Life Reopening Simulator"? Why does your description sound like "Immortal Reopening Simulator"?"

Liu Siyuan: "What the goddess said makes sense! In fact, I think it's called "The European Emperor's Bizarre Adventure" or "Ten Thousand Ways to Die for Non-Chiefs" which is very appropriate..."

Liu Yao: "Who knows? Maybe the game planner suddenly let himself go... Anyway, go and try it. It's hard to say the specifics of this game. It's just very special. Do you understand?"

Lu Shiping: "Hey, are you talking about that kind of thing? I understand, go download it immediately [bad laugh] [bad laugh] [bad laugh]"

Liu Yao:. . .

After a few minutes, Lu Shiping came back again: "Excuse me, I searched and found that it can only be downloaded from the iOS app store. Android users fainted in the toilet from crying."

Cao Haichao: "iOS users also cried and fainted in the toilet, and they actually had to pay six yuan to buy..."

Lu Shiping: "Stop pretending. Who doesn't know that you, Mr. Cao, have paid more than 100,000 yuan in online games? Stop crying about poverty here."

Cao Haichao: "I didn't, no, don't talk nonsense. Teacher Li is still in the group. Don't accuse people of their innocence out of thin air. I'm a good boy. I never play online games, let alone charge money."

Lu Shiping: "Haha, I believe you are a ghost... By the way, why is Teacher Li still in the group chat? Let's remove her from the group chat!"

"System message: Lu Shiping has been removed from the group chat by the group leader, Mr. Li"

. . .

After that, the chat gradually went awry.

Later, several people in the class who had downloaded the game were frantically posting screenshots.

Lin Hui was not interested in these, so he stopped reading.

…

However, Lin Hui discovered that it was not just the class group that was actively discussing this game.

Even in the circle of friends, many people are posting screenshots of this game.

…

Lin Hui logged into his personal developer account and checked the background data:

Lin Hui discovered that the download volume of "Life Restart Simulator" has been surging since it was launched at 21:30 yesterday.

So far, the number of downloads of this game has reached 1.77 million.

The number of effective downloads is also as high as 840,000.

(ps: The effective download amount here is calculated using a method similar to that in Steam. Game play for more than two hours cannot be refunded, which is equivalent to a valid download.

In fact, the iOS refund time limit is 90 days, which is too long to describe in a novel)

Both download volume and effective download volume are important!

After all, the number of downloads is directly proportional to popularity, and the number of effective downloads is linked to the developer’s final income.

Lin Hui remembered that before September 30, 2015, the price of apps and in-app purchases in the App Store was divided between αapple and developers at a 30/70 ratio.

Among them, αapple accounts for 30% and developers account for 70%.

In other words, it is calculated based on the current effective download volume.

Lin Hui’s expected income has reached 3.528 million (840,000 × 6 × 70%)

And this is only temporary.

After all, effective downloads are still growing steadily.

According to the current momentum, it won’t be a big problem if effective downloads exceed one million on the first day...

In the developer account, Lin Hui also saw a bunch of official messages from αapple:

"Dear developer, the game "Life Restart Simulator" you developed has been included in the App Store's selected new games this week. During this period, it is best not to have large version iterations to avoid unknown bugs. The impact on player experience…”

"..."

"Dear developer, the "Life Restart Simulator" you developed has been selected as a high-quality APP and has successfully joined the AppStore (individual) developer incentive program. For details, please check the link www.\u0026lt;\u0026gt;. com"

"Hello, dear developer, I am Huang Jing, a software engineer at AppStore. If you need any help, please feel free to contact me at any time. Contact information:..."

"..."

Incentive plan? What the hell is this, an iOS-specific feature in this world?

What surprised Lin Hui the most was that "Life Restart Simulator" actually ranked third among the most popular searches for scarves.

Lin Hui didn't buy the hot search.

So this game is really popular? !

…

In fact, Lin Hui was not surprised that this game became a hit.

It can be said that "Life Restart Simulator" will either not be online or it will be a hit when it is online.

After all, in later generations, it only took less than 12 hours for this game to go from public launch to becoming an internet sensation.

This open source project originating from GitHub completed its closed beta test on September 2, and was first launched on Baidu Tie/Bar on the morning of September 3.

In just a few hours, the game went viral.

Later, "Life Restart Simulator" received an astonishing 50 million homepage visits on the first day, and the number of players on the first day reached 3 million.

In three days, the number of visitors exceeded 200 million.

The game "Life Restart Simulator" can stand out among so many mobile game masterpieces in later generations and gain a place.

There is no reason why it cannot be popular in this time and space.

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