Not everyone is cut out for fame. Not at least the creator of Flappy Bird, a skill game that has been gaining attention in recent weeks. Thus, after achieving overwhelming success thanks to the virality and simplicity of the title, he announces that will remove it from different app stores for “not supporting it anymore”. And it is that media and public pressure seem to have taken its toll on the developer.
It was Dong Nguyen himself, the Vietnamese developer and father of Flappy Bird, who has been in charge of announcing it through his account on the social network Twitter Through a series of messages he has made it known that he cannotwithstand the pressure you have received with the success of your own creation. For this reason, he is forced to remove Flappy Bird Understanding his removal from Google Play and App Store throughout the day from today
Specifically, these have been his words:Sorry Flappy Bird users, in 22 hours I will remove Flappy Bird. I can not take it anymore. It has nothing to do with legal issues. It's just that I can't take it anymore. Not that I'm going to sell Flappy Bird, please don't ask.And I'm still making games.
The decision has caught users and media by surprise And it is not understood that after achieving such success from a such a simple game, created in a couple of days, its own creator removed it. A title published in mid-2013 but it has been now when it has managed to spread like wildfire from smartphone to smartphone to test the ability of users. A completely free game that inserted advertisements and, according to some media, reported $50,000 per day to its creatorthanks to the volume of downloads achieved in recent weeks.
However, it seems that the result of this measure is counterproductive And it has gotten even more attention from all the media, who keep talking about the success of this game and the striking of this story.Even more so after having confirmed his intention to develop a version of Flappy Bird also for the Windows Phone platform and even a sequel Something that, apparently, will no longer be given. A radical measure that can either be understood as the true weariness of the developer or as a marketing campaign to get even more popularity
This is not the first case in which an independent game developer decides to scrap a project after pressure received after a previous success. This is the case of the video game Fez and its media creator Phil Fish, who, after announcing the second part of the title, ended up canceling it due to criticism and pressure from the press and users.
Therefore, and given the possibility that the statement of the developer of Flappy Bird is true, the best option is to download thisalmost impossible but addictive game before it was removed from app stores.A skill game that consists of making a bird pass between pipes for as long as possible. At the moment it is still free and available on Google Play and App Store
Update:
Finally it looks like the developer has followed through on their promise and the Flappy Bird game has already disappeared from both Google Play and the App StoreThere remains, however, a good collection of applications and games that imitate this successful title, but without having a direct or official relationship with it.
