During this period, its developer said that Flappy Bird was earning $50,000 a day from in-app advertisements as well as sales.įlappy Bird was removed from both the App Store and Google Play by its creator on February 10, 2014.
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At the end of January 2014, it was the most downloaded free game in the App Store for iOS. Flappy Bird received poor reviews from some critics, who criticized its high level of difficulty and alleged plagiarism in graphics and game mechanics, while other reviewers found it addictive. The game was released in May 2013 but received a sudden spike in popularity in early 2014 and became a sleeper hit. Nguyen created the game over the period of several days, using a bird protagonist that he had designed for a cancelled game in 2012. The game is a side-scroller where the player controls a bird, attempting to fly between columns of green pipes without hitting them. I just cannot keep it anymore,” he wrote.Flappy Bird is a mobile game developed by Vietnamese video game artist and programmer Dong Nguyen ( Vietnamese: Nguyễn Hà Đông), under his game development company. “It is not anything related to legal issues. On Twitter he didn’t address the inflated downloads allegation but denied suggestions he was withdrawing the game because it breached another game maker’s copyright. I cannot take this anymore,” he wrote.ĭong had agreed to talk to The Associated Press about the game in an interview scheduled for Friday, but canceled. Thomas said he couldn’t prove his suspicion and that the success of Flappy Bird might also be explained by it being “just a wildly viral game.”ĭong, from Hanoi, wrote on Twitter on Saturday that the Internet sensation caused by the game “ruins my simple life” and he now hated it. In an interview with The Verge website, Dong said Flappy Bird was making $50,000 a day in advertising revenueīut tech blogger Carter Thomas said the sudden popularity of Flappy Bird might have been due to use of fake accounts run by computers to create downloads and reviews. The game was downloaded more than 50 million times on App Store alone. The success of the game that based its appeal on being simple and also maddeningly difficult made its creator Nguyen Ha Dong, 29, a minor celebrity. The game which was uploaded in 2013 but only surged to the top in downloads earlier this year was removed early Monday. HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - The young Vietnamese creator of hit mobile game Flappy Bird has removed it from the App Store and Google Play saying it ruined his life. “I have tried playing Ironpants,” he said of one clone. There’s a number of clones of the game, but Nguyen doesn’t appear to mind. “I couldn’t sleep,” he said, adding that “my life has not been as comfortable as I was before.” He said “Flappy Bird” was too stressful for him. Nguyen said he still has top games in the app store, including Super Ball Juggling and Shuriken Block.
“I don’t know the exact figure, but I do know it’s a lot,” he said. It was reported that Nguyen was making about $50,000 per day on in-game ads.
To solve that problem, it’s best to take down Flappy Bird. “But it happened to become an addictive product. “Flappy Bird was designed to play in a few minutes when you are relaxed,” he told Forbes. The game is available on several Flash game websites, including Kongregate and Agame.Ĭreator Dong Nguyen of Vietnam recently elaborated on his decision to take down the game. “Flappy Bird” was deleted from the App Store and Google Play earlier this week, but you can still play the game elsewhere.
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