The Millennium Semiconductor Survival Guide.

Chapter 19
In 1998, the number of computers in the entire American was about 4000 million.

Among them, the Los Angeles Bay Area, including Silicon Valley, is definitely the place with the highest computer retention rate in the world.

Basically every family has a computer.

So more than half of the first thousand Angry Birds units sold came from the Bay Area.

Likewise, Angry Birds quickly became the talk of the Bay Area.

The eyes of the media also quickly focused on this little red bird.

On the third day of release, the sales volume of Angry Birds exceeded 20 sets. Stephen came to the garage at night and handed out "Gamesmen" to everyone. It read:

"Over the past three days, I've had to see this little red bird from a colleague's computer more than once.

He seems to have an unspeakable magic that can attract people to sit in front of this game for a whole day.

Until you beat the level, or a bunch of gloating pigs are so angry that they want to smash the monitor.

Yes, I believe that many players here have already guessed this game, 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 group of vicious pigs who stole them.

The piggies hide on or inside buildings made of various materials such as wood, glass and stone, and the goal of the game is to eliminate all the piggies in the level.The player uses a slingshot to launch a bird at a building with the aim of either hitting the pig directly or destroying the building, which causes it to collapse onto the pig.

Descriptions come 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 - referring to the game's pigs taking refuge on or inside structures made of various materials is awesome.

Just reading Riot's roundup of Angry Birds made me long to play it again.

Sometimes the pigs lined up unprotected, other times they hid in forts made of stone, glass or wood.They take refuge in these spaces, as in a "rogue's refuge," and the refuge is extremely difficult to penetrate or overthrow.

In Angry Birds, as often happens in life, the material world conspires to favor these bastards, endowing them with what look like parapets, berms, and railings, as if they were the beneficiaries of some foreign aid program the same.

Those disgusting, smug green pigs stole my stuff, and they were sitting in stone fortifications they didn't even build themselves.

What about the look on their fat faces?Full of triumph and condescending mockery.

Think you're too nice for me, huh?You will rob me, will I be kind to that?

You have your well-designed fortress.And I had nothing but hurt feelings.

my anger!
So I wobbled and aimed at them, pigs, in Riot's world without end, which has 150 levels to beat, and the game is said to be constantly being updated with new ones.

Angry Birds is a so-called physics game that suggests education and is also a converse puzzle, since you have to destroy it by figuring out how its pieces break down.

Your tools are the birds—the victims of theft and your cannon fodder.Every bird fired dies.While there's no blood because it's the death of a cartoon character, every mission is a suicide mission.

So I must say that as much as I empathize with and need Angry Birds (they are an excuse and 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 would say it makes me happy.Images of pigs and broken ice structures filled my dreams.

I look at buildings like the Capitol and fantasize about how easily they could—and should—collapse.

Is this what it's like to be both Angry Birds and Bad Bird?"

After reading it silently, Zhou Xin turned to the other party: "Good article, is it just this?"

In Zhou Xin's opinion, the most valuable thing about Angry Birds should be the solution to purely online game purchase.

There is no shortage of good video games in this era.

Compared with other games, Angry Birds does not have a particularly significant advantage.

The advantage may be that it is easy to use, 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 also talked with my colleagues, and they agreed that this is a revolutionary invention. Although the game distribution channel will not be killed so easily, a large part of the game distribution channel cake will be shared 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, and he is about to enroll in a Ph.D., which happened to be a perfect reason to ask for leave.

After the success of Angry Birds, Zhou Xin plans to resign 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 is not uncommon to start a business while working.

It's just that it's rare for a startup to change its main business.

No matter how many opportunities there are, there are always a few who succeed.

20 sets of Angry Birds, that is, a cash flow of 400 million US dollars, this cash flow is enough to support a team of about 20 people.

And this amount is still growing, and the growth rate is also accelerating.

After the word of mouth of the game spreads, more people will pay to download it.

"The gaming community is going live.

One verification code can only register one account, which can avoid some unwillingness to pay. "

It is unavoidable for players to share the downloaded files with friends for free after paying for the download.

In addition, the game distributors put their game installation packages on the Internet for free for players to prostitute, which is even more helpless.

If there is steam, Zhou Xin is confident that he can sell 1000 million copies of Angry Birds.

Because the players willing to pay are not only in American, the potential user group willing to pay in the entire Europa region is even larger.

According to the transfer data collected by Hua Guo Bank Los Angeles Branch, the proportion of transfers from the Europa region has exceeded 5.00%.

"Louis, and you, since you joined late, you still 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, and then you can complete them in school.

The salary will be consistent with the regular employees we will recruit later.

how do you feel? "

The memory after 20 years in Zhou Xin's mind gradually became clear, and he found out who the other party was in his memory.

Compared with unknown people like Stephen and Ashley, Louis von Anke is the founder of Captcha, a genius programmer, and a first-class cryptographer.

(End of this chapter)