Chapter 279 Prescient Decision

And to take a step back, even if Lin Hui needs a plan, he can go to a headhunting company, HR, social recruitment, etc. when it comes to talent recruitment.

There are also formal channels for talent introduction.

Lin Hui didn't go so far as to say that he would randomly recruit people from overseas forums like this.

In short, even though he deeply appreciated this flyingtiger article, Lin Hui was only slightly interested in it and did not take any further action.

Speaking of which, "T-rex's Journey" is a very popular game on many game forums, which saves Lin Hui a lot of trouble.

In this case, there is no need for Lin Hui to go overboard in promotion.

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Lin Hui remembered when he was promoting "FLAPPY BIRD".

At the beginning, we spent US$1 million just on publicity overseas.

Although this million US dollars seems nothing to Lin Hui today.

But in the eyes of Lin Hui at that time, it was still a fortune that should not be underestimated. After all, he did not have much money in total at that time.

However, despite spending huge sums of money on publicity.

But unfortunately, due to the time difference, the high cost of publicity did not achieve immediate results.

Lin Hui remembers that the game "FLAPPY BIRD" achieved 23.41 million effective downloads in a short period of time.

However, 23.05 million of the effective downloads came from the domestic AppStore, while there were only 360,000 effective downloads in overseas areas.

After waiting for daybreak in most overseas areas, the publicity that Lin Hui spent a huge amount of money on at that time slowly began to take effect.

With this incident as a lesson, Lin Hui was very accommodating to the habits of overseas users when "HILL CLIMB RACING" was launched.

However, games like "T-rex's Journey" are launched overseas this time.

The online time set by Lin Hui was just based on his usual living habits and did not deliberately consider the time difference.

As for the convenience and inconvenience of overseas players, and other messy matters such as whether they were taking a break, Lin Hui didn't even think about it.

However, even Lin Hui's situation did not affect Lin Hui's success this time in making the game "T-rex's Journey" effectively downloaded more than 5 million times overseas and it also formed a good topic.

This fully demonstrates that GRAY FOREST, as a game developer, has strong enough appeal to overseas players.

This achievement also illustrates Lin Hui's growth from the side.

If the game "T-rex's Journey" develops according to the current trend.

Lin Hui doesn’t have to worry about why he can’t make further progress in overseas markets.

Lin Hui estimates that according to this growth trend, it is very possible that the game can be effectively downloaded overseas for more than 10 million times within the first day.

Lin Hui even thinks that this game is likely to set a bunch of records in the history of mini-games.

After all, the predecessor of the game "T-rex's Journey", the dinosaur mini-game in the previous life, already holds many records.

In this time and space, even if "T-rex's Journey" cannot completely replicate the glory of its previous life, it is still possible to even set one or two mini-game records.

Lin Hui's eyes have already looked higher and further away.

Of course, Lin Hui no longer cares much about what kind of results he achieves in small games like this.

It's useless even if he cares, even though Lin Hui currently has a relatively detached status among individual developers in the app store.

But settlement will have to wait until tomorrow.

Now that there are no major problems with "T-rex's Journey", Lin Hui might as well focus his energy elsewhere.

Lin Hui thought about it carefully, except for some trivial matters.

Currently, the two most important things before Lin Hui are that the two previously finalized contracts still need to be further dealt with by Lin Hui.

According to the formal transfer contract previously reached with Pingchen regarding quick instructions, it stipulates:

Lin Hui transferred all software ownership related to the shortcut software, including creativity, to Apple.

Apple needs to pay Lin Hui US$75 million in four installments.

An initial payment of US$45 million will be made to Lin Hui when the formal contract is signed.

The remaining 30 million U.S. dollars were settled in three installments, each time settling at 5 million U.S. dollars, 10 million U.S. dollars, and 15 million U.S. dollars respectively.

These settlement times depend on the progress of Lin Hui’s upgrade of the shortcut command software.

Lin Hui needs to upgrade the shortcut commands three times based on the current shortcut commands.

They are adaptability upgrade, functional upgrade and expandability upgrade...

As for the compatibility upgrade, it’s easy to say. It just requires Lin Hui to make the shortcut command software he made earlier compatible with the upcoming iOS8 version.

This thing is a piece of cake for Lin Hui.

In the past life, Apple has done a lot of compatibility. Even if Apple allows Lin Hui to be compatible with iOS12 or even higher versions of iOS, it will not be a big problem.

The five million US dollars corresponding to the adaptability upgrade is basically a piece of cake for Lin Hui.

The functional upgrade is a function that Apple requires Lin Hui to further develop the shortcut command software.

The functional completeness should be at least 40% better than the current shortcut command.

This is not difficult for Lin Hui.

Lin Hui had thought about it before when developing the shortcut command software.

If Apple really acquires it, it will definitely require Lin Hui to carry out functional upgrades.

So when I was building the shortcut software earlier.

The main function of this software is to realize the required action modules/built-in operations.

Lin Hui only built 80 built-in actions at the time.

In fact, if Lin Hui wanted to just add built-in actions, he could have added more than fifty more.

Lin Hui couldn't help but feel that his original decision was so foresight.

Under such circumstances, it is not easy to ask Lin Hui to continue to upgrade the functions of the shortcut command software.

Let alone a 40% increase in functionality, there is no problem if Lin Hui continues to increase it by more than 60% on this basis.

The final payment of US$10 million can be obtained by upgrading 40% of the functionality. This task is easy for Lin Hui.

If everything goes well, it can basically be done in one day.

The scalability upgrade is to basically combine Siri and the shortcut command software.

This involves handover with Apple’s human-computer interaction team.

This is more troublesome.

Of course, if it were that easy, Apple wouldn't charge $15 million for expansion upgrades.

This cost is already equivalent to the sum of the costs required for adaptability upgrades and functional upgrades.

However, there is no rush at the moment when it comes to scalable upgrades.

When a tall building rises from the ground, the key is to lay a good foundation.

Lin Hui felt that he couldn't aim too high for the time being. For now, it would be good to smoothly hand over the adaptability upgrade and functional upgrade to Elizabeth Nice and her team.

After all, if you figure out these two upgrades, you will get nearly 100 million yuan (US$15 million).

Lin Hui happened to have nothing to do in the afternoon of June 28th.

So Lin Hui asked Elizabeth Nessie to contact her about adaptability upgrades and functional upgrades.

The handover location is still at the Northland International Conference Center.

It was here that Lin Hui and Elizabeth Nish had their initial contact last time.

The electronic equipment here is relatively complete and there are conditions for simultaneous interpretation.

Although Lin Hui can now handle some simple communication (with Wai Guoren).

Even forums outside the water wall don't have any big problems.

However, it is a relatively formal handover of foreign-related cooperation after all, so Lin Hui feels that it is better to conduct the handover in a formal environment.

Therefore, this time the team led by Lin Hui and Elizabeth Nishi still chose to conduct the contact here.

After all, this is not the first time we have contacted Pingchun.

Lin Hui and Elizabeth Nice's team conducted a handover on the adaptability and functionality upgrade of the shortcut command software.

Lin Hui originally thought that there would be some unexpected troubles in this cooperation.

But it turned out that Lin Hui thought too much.

The handover process was as smooth as eating Dove, everything went on in an orderly manner.

It seems that no matter which time and space it is, Pingcheng is worthy of being one of the top Internet giants in Blue Star.

Even if time and space change, at least the background in software development is still there.
To be continued...