Time Travel: 2014

Dong Jiaqi has written many review articles on past games developed by GRAY FOREST.

Now it can be said that it is effortless for her to write an article analyzing GRAY FOREST himself.

It's completely within reach.

Although it is 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 game itself.

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 gaming 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.

This situation occurs because the game development process is complex.

Every process of game design is extremely professional.

Therefore, R\u0026D work is usually done in teams.

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 alone.

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 unknown 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 a few of the 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 transcendence 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 it 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-replicate 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 be 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's performance is extremely low-key.

Except for the occasional bubbling on social accounts.

Almost never makes any public remarks.

Don't meddle in the rights and wrongs of other developers at will.

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 domineering 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 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 successively learned many knowledge 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.

Although the completion level of this small game is quite high.

However, due to various reasons, the game was not released to the public.

But according to GRAY FOREST himself.

This game may appear as an Easter egg in future products he develops.

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Talking about the recent popular games in GRAY FOREST

Although he has been immersed in programming for a long time.

But in fact, except for the game "Life Restart Simulator", which he started to conceive during the vacation of his sophomore year of high school.

The remaining two games are not works that have been conceived for a long time.

Not only have I not thought about it for a long time.

On the contrary, they are all his "improvisations".

Although the game "FLAPPY BIRD" has tortured many players.

But GRAY FOREST actually only spent one day developing this game.

During this day, GRAY FOREST's main focus was on art design.

The programming part basically took him no time.

The game "2048" GRAY FOREST was completed in just one night.

The author has also contacted some game developers online before.

When they develop a game, they often have to think about an idea for a long time.

It is completely different from the situation of GRAY FOREST where thoughts are flowing like a fountain.

Maybe this is the difference between mortals and geniuses.