If you don't know the name Dong Nguyen you may know his first game, Flappy Bird. That's the game that took the world by storm and then was abruptly pulled from the iTunes app store by Nguyen himself. At the time he said that he didn't want all the publicity and mayhem that surrounded the [...]
Miss Flappy Bird? Well you're in luck. Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen told CNBC's Kelly Evans that the wildly addictive game would be back in August of this year. In February, Nguyen pulled Flappy Bird from the app stores for being too addictive. No kidding, the game was downloaded more than 50 million times. What's more, the game [...]
In May 2013, developer Dong Nguyen released a free game called Flappy Bird. You may have heard of it. The game enjoyed relative obscurity until early 2014, when it suddenly ricocheted into popularity, becoming the #1 app in both the iPhone and Android markets. Then, on February 9, Dong Nguyen took Flappy Bird down. Even [...]
If you missed out on the Flappy Bird epidemic and didn't download it before developer, Dong Nguyen took it down two weeks ago then you may be in luck. As soon as news hit that Flappy Bird was going away developers immediately went to work on clones. Games that mimicked the popular game that had [...]
n the wake of the Flappy Bird shut down, there are many, many questions left unanswered. Not the least of which is how did a game, with such awful graphics and such a simple game play become so successful? While it is hard to answer any of the questions, the raw facts remain.
We all know that Dong Nguyen was onto something with his hit game Flappy Bird. Many sites have estimated that the game is pulling in $50,000 a day in ad revenue. It's an addictive little game where the user tries to get the bird through as many pipes as possible without running into them. There [...]
On Saturday, we were one of the earliest sites to report that Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen was considering taking down the addicting and popular, Flappy Bird, out of the app stores. Nguyen seems to be one of those guys that's just not ok with fame. He fancies himself an indie game developer and never [...]
It's hard to believe that the phenomena known as Flappy Bird may be going away, as soon as later today. Business Insider reported earlier today that the game's developer, Dong Nguyen, tweeted that in 22 hours the game would go away. Business Insider's Nicholas Carlson says that Nguyen isn't one for the limelight. Nguyen considers [...]
