In 1998, the number of computers owned by Amerikan was approximately 40 million.
The San Francisco Bay Area, including Silicon Valley, definitely has the highest computer retention rate in the world.
Basically every home has a computer.
As a result, more than half of the first thousand Angry Birds units sold came from the Bay Area.
Likewise, Angry Birds quickly became a topic of discussion throughout the Bay Area.
The media's attention quickly focused on this red bird.
On the third day of release, the sales of Angry Birds exceeded 200,000 units. After Stephen came to the garage at night, he took out "Gamesmen" and handed it to everyone. It read:
"In the past three days, I've had to see this little red bird on my colleagues' computers more than once.
He seems to have an indescribable magic that can attract people to sit in front of this game all day long.
Until you beat the level, or get so angry that you want to smash the monitor by a bunch of gloating pigs.
Yes, I believe many players have guessed this game by now, it is "Angry Birds".
Angry Birds is a hilarious game about a group of wingless birds who are wronged by a group of pigs.
In Angry Birds, players control a flock of birds trying to retrieve their eggs from a gang of evil pigs who have stolen them.
The piglets hide on or inside buildings made of various materials including wood, glass, and stone, and the goal of the game is to eliminate all piglets in the level. Players use a slingshot to launch birds at buildings, with the goal of either hitting the pigs directly or damaging the building, which will cause it to collapse onto the pigs.
The description comes directly from their developer - Riot Games.
I like to think of Riot as the Tolstoy of puzzle games.
The idea of pigs - how I hate them - refers to the game's pigs taking refuge on or inside structures made of various materials is really cool.
Just reading Riot's summary of Angry Birds makes me eager to play it again.
Sometimes the pigs will line up unprotected, sometimes they will take shelter in fortresses made of stone, glass or wood. They take refuge in these spaces, as in "a scoundrel's haven," and the shelter is extremely difficult to penetrate or overturn.
In Angry Birds, as so often happens in life, the material world conspires to favor these assholes, giving them what looks like parapets, berms, and railings, as if they were the beneficiary of some foreign aid program The same.
Those disgusting, smug green pigs stole my stuff, and they're sitting in a stone fortification they didn't even build themselves.
What about the expressions on their fat faces? Full of pride and condescending mockery.
I think you're too kind to me, huh? You're going to rob me and I'm going to be polite about it?
You have your well-designed fortress. And I had nothing but hurt feelings.
My anger!
So I aimed at them staggeringly, pigs, there is no end in Riot's world, there are one hundred and fifty levels to overcome, and it is said that the game will be constantly updated with new levels.
Angry Birds is a so-called physics game that suggests education while also being a puzzle in reverse, since you have to destroy it by figuring out how its pieces break down.
Your tools are these birds - the victims of theft and your cannon fodder. Every bird launched dies. While there's no blood as it's a cartoon character's death, every mission is a suicide mission.
So I have to say that while I both sympathize with and need Angry Birds (they are an excuse and an expression of my anger), I also hate them.
I hate everything!
I play Angry Birds! Of course, at this late stage in my emotional evolution, I finally had no reason to be consumed by anger. I will say it makes me happy. Images of pigs and broken ice structures filled my dreams.
I see buildings like the Capitol and daydream about how easily they could—and should—come down.
Is this what it feels like to be an angry bird and a bad bird at the same time..."
After Zhou Xin read it silently, he turned to the other party: "It's a good article, is it just this?"
In Zhou Xin’s view, the most valuable thing about Angry Birds is its purely online solution for purchasing games.
There is no shortage of great video games in this era.
Angry Birds has no particularly significant advantages over other games.
The advantage may be that it is easy to get started, and the overall style has been tested by the market.
“Of course, when I went to work, I heard people discussing the payment system we designed in the cafeteria more than once.
I have also talked with my colleagues, and they all agree that this is a revolutionary invention. Although the game distribution channel will not be eliminated so easily, a large part of the cake of the game distribution channel will be divided by others. "Ashley came over and added.
Since Zhou Xin is an intern, he does not need to go to work at Microsoft every day. At the same time, he is about to enroll for a Ph.D., which is a perfect reason to take leave.
After the success of Angry Birds, Zhou Xin plans to resign when he returns home in the next few days.
He is not the only one who needs to resign. Ashley and Stephen will also leave, and Riot Games will be their next stop.
In Silicon Valley, it’s not uncommon to start a business while working.
It’s just that it’s rare to start a business and turn it into your main business.
No matter how many opportunities there are, only a few will succeed.
Two hundred thousand sets of Angry Birds, which is a cash flow of four million US dollars, is enough to support a team of about 20 people.
And this amount is still growing, and the growth rate is also accelerating.
After word-of-mouth spreads about the game, more people will pay to download it.
“The gaming community is coming online.
One verification code can only register one account, which can avoid some people who are unwilling to pay. "
It is unavoidable that players pay to download and then share the downloaded files with their friends for free.
In addition, game channel providers put their game installation packages on the Internet for free and provide them to players for free, which makes it even more helpless.
If there was steam, Zhou Xin was confident that he could sell 10 million copies of Angry Birds.
Because players who are willing to pay are not just in Amerikan, there is a much larger group of potential users who are willing to pay in the entire Europa region.
According to the transfer data collected by the San Francisco Branch of China National Bank, the proportion of transfers from the Europa region has exceeded 5%.
“Louis, and you, because you joined relatively late, and then you need to go back to Carnegie Mellon University to continue your studies.
We would like to offer you a purely remote job opportunity, which means we assign tasks to you that you can then complete at school.
The salary will be consistent with that of our subsequent regular employees.
how do you feel? "
The memory of twenty years later gradually became clearer in Zhou Xin's mind, and he rummaged through his memory to find out who the other party was.
Compared with unknown people like Stephen and Ashley, Louis von Anke is the founder of verification code, a genius programmer, and a first-class cryptographer.
