Players would die after the first or second gate in most sessions, and designer Dong Nguyen borrowed a lot of assets from games like Super Mario World for the visuals. It was difficult, but it also seemed cheap and slapped together. If you missed the original Flappy Bird, it had you tapping your screen to guide an awkward flying creature through narrow gates. As the name suggests, it has 99 players competing to outlast one another. And now Flappy Bird has reached its logical conclusion: a battle royale game.įlappy Royale debuted last month as a free-to-play game for iOS, Android, and the web. Thankfully, the concept lives on in plenty of clones. Unfortunately, I must use the past tense when speaking about it because the game’s creator removed it from the mobile app stores years ago. I just cannot keep it anymore,” he wrote.Interested in learning what's next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next. “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.