Time Travel: 2014

As for the launch date, Lin Hui decided to schedule it for mid-July.

Lin Hui should have just returned from overseas at that time.

Lin Hui then uploaded the game to Apple's App Store, waiting for it to pass review.

Although this process will definitely be known to Apple.

But it doesn't matter, according to the details of the previously signed cooperation agreement.

Apple must keep Lin Hui's game production cycle, game development habits, and the content of the game (which has no plans to be launched within 10 days) strictly confidential.

In any contract, a major premise is that both parties are equal.

So in this case, the rules work both ways.

Lin Hui also has no right to disclose to the outside world the operating rules of Apple’s App Store and the details of the sharing between the App Store and developers.

If either party A and B breach the contract, they will face high liquidated damages.

Of course, this is also based on complying with the minimum business rules.

If you encounter a boss who flips the table at every turn, no contract will be of any use.

(ps:...Some Party A in China: lz has breached the contract, and you are welcome to file a lawsuit)

After "Hill Climb Racing" was launched, both the domestic version and the overseas version quickly passed the AppStore review.

Lin Hui noticed that the overseas version of "Hill Climb Racing" was rated 9+.

Although it is not like "2048" which was classified as 4+ as "harmless to humans and animals", 9+ is much better than Lin Hui's previous RR, which was classified as 17+.

"Hill Climb Racing" has only passed review not long ago.

Lin Hui received a call from Apple. The call was from He Yue.

When negotiating with Apple in the morning, Apple's negotiators were led by this person.

Lin Hui remembered that this person introduced herself and mentioned that she was from Apple's wireless software technology department.

But Lin Hui doesn’t know what he does specifically.

In the IT industry, large companies have numerous departments and various tasks.

Many departments have very weird names, and sometimes the same department name may actually be responsible for completely opposite contents in different companies.

The same wireless software technology department may be engaged in 5G in Juchang, or infrared remote controls in grocery stores.

As for what Apple's wireless software technology department does within Apple, Lin Hui is not sure.

He Yue left a deep impression on Lin Hui.

Although this person did not speak much in the morning negotiations, the final decision was often made by this person.

Now, He Yue, as a representative of Apple, asked Lin Hui why it was not scheduled to go online as soon as possible?

Because he was bound by the contract, Lin Hui had nothing to hide from Apple staff.

After putting his concerns aside, he learned that Lin Hui was worried that too frequent launches of the game would cause criticism from the outside world.

He Yue disagreed: "..."

According to what He Yue said, genius should be different.

And Lin Hui should be the unique genius.

According to He Yue's words, with Lin Hui's status, there is no need to be timid, so what if he plays online games frequently?

The so-called game development cycle is just an excuse for ordinary developers to stick to the old ways.

As a talented developer, you have to break through the limitations of traditional game development...

This does make sense.

In the past, Lin Hui was just an unknown individual developer.

If you don't hold back, you may be vulnerable to criticism.

But now, Lin Hui is one of the few extraordinary individual developers in the world.

Internationally, Lin Hui has just won the Apple Design Award, the highest award in the industry.

In the field of domestic game development, Lin Hui is a leader among individual developers.

Under such circumstances, it would not be an exaggeration to say that Lin Hui is the number one individual game developer in the industry.

What's the use of pretending to be a grandson in this situation?

Even if you do nothing, you will still attract attention from all parties.

In short, He Yue suggested that Lin Hui arrange for the game to be put on the shelves immediately.

Taking advantage of the launch on the eve of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, it is easy to maintain the popularity.

In addition, through He Yue's words, Lin Hui also captured an important message.

Although Lin Hui released multiple games in a short period of time and achieved great results.

But he has never been the fastest person to publish games in the AppStore.

In this time and space, an individual developer actually launched 11 games on the AppStore in one week.

No one can break this record. Although the results of these games are mediocre, there is such a precedent.

Lin Hui didn't need to worry about anything, he could just do it and be done with it.

Lin Hui decisively chose to launch "Hill Climb Racing" immediately.

And checked the Apple platform exclusivity, the exclusivity period is 6 months (ps:...see the author's words)

In this way, Lin Hui automatically owns 85% of the initial share.

As for the publicity stuff, it will be in accordance with the details of the previous agreement.

After the game developed by Lin Hui is chosen to be exclusive on the Apple platform, Apple should invest more resources in promoting the game.

Not only is promotion within the AppStore limited, but Apple is also responsible for promotion on other platforms in the Internet environment.

(When the platform is responsible for publicity, the cost is not as high as when individuals come forward. It does not even need to spend money. Sometimes it is even just a word to each other.)

In short, having a platform will undoubtedly greatly alleviate the burden Lin Hui faces in publicity.

After choosing to go online immediately. It didn’t take long for Lin Hui to see “Hill Climb Racing” online in the Apple App Store.

And Lin Hui discovered the search bar within Apple's AppStore.

There is a line of light words inside:

——"Hill Climb Racing"

Good guy, doesn't this mean that when the user clicks to enter the AppStore.

Even if the user does not enter anything, as long as they click the search button, they will automatically jump to the "Hill Climb Racing" interface.

Um, this, is this the treatment after the py transaction?

It was clearly arranged.

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Now that Apple has decided to promote the game "Hill Climb Racing" in a big way.

There is no need for Lin Hui to overstep his bounds.

However, Lin Hui is still planning to post a lottery draw on Weibo as usual when releasing games.

When he came to Weibo, Lin Hui noticed that during the period when he was not online, the number of fans had quietly exceeded 200,000.

Clicking on the message list, Lin Hui saw 999+ unread private messages at a glance.

The top of the message list is the message from "Melancholy Fish".

It seemed that the message came from Melancholy Yuyu just as he was waiting for him to come online.

Lin Hui clicked and looked at it, and the melancholic swimming fish sent a long paragraph: "..."

Although he said it very implicitly, the meaning behind his words was that he wanted to treat Lin Hui to dinner to thank Lin Hui for his help.

This surprised Lin Hui. Lin Hui asked in confusion: "Invite me to dinner? Where do you start talking about this?"

Melancholic Fish: "(⊙﹏⊙), Gray God, don't you remember? Your message on the 16th helped me gain a lot of attention..."

Well, Lin Hui really didn’t remember it. After seeing Melancholy’s description, Lin Hui remembered the “200,000-story building” incident.

Although it only happened on the afternoon of the 16th, it felt to Lin Hui that it had been a long, long time ago.

Lin Hui: "Forget about inviting me to dinner. You have promoted games to me before... To be honest, I did it unintentionally that day. It's fine that I didn't cause any trouble for you..."

The melancholic swimming fish: "How can you cause trouble? You have helped me gain a lot of followers! Originally I thought I would break through 6 million followers by the end of this year, but Gray God, you have helped me a lot... Gray God, are you here?" Which city? I'll go find you..."

Although Melancholy Fish was very enthusiastic, Lin Hui declined Melancholy Fish's invitation.

Girl, you are really not afraid of meeting bad people. Although Lin Hui is not a bad person, but...

It feels weird anyway.

Fortunately, after Lin Hui expressed his evasion, the melancholic swimming fish did not persist.

Melancholy's swimming fish said that even if he doesn't invite Lin Hui to dinner, he will give his full support to Hui Shen's new game.

Well, looking at the attitude of the melancholy fish, Lin Hui always felt that it was necessary to remind the melancholy fish to pay attention to restraint and rational consumption!

But think about it, forget it, they are all adults, it shouldn’t be difficult to control how much they send.

Lin Hui then exchanged a few words with Melancholy Youyu, added each other on WeChat, and stopped chatting.

After that, Lin Hui casually replied to some private messages.

Of course, Lin Hui didn’t forget to post about the lottery draw on Weibo.

For a game that is only available for free as soon as it is launched, it is obviously inappropriate to use a redemption code as a gift.

Just give out red envelopes directly, it's simple and crude.