Flappy Bird creator, Dong Nguyen, taking down game; "I can't take this anymore"

Post by dsuth » Sat, Feb 08, 2014, 11:43 PM UTC

sgustard wrote: post #92

keithpeter wrote: post #11

My teenager students will be devastated by this. They really liked the game. We also had a good class discussion about adverts, the amount of money you can get from adverts, and the cost of living in Hanoi. The main thing is that they worked out that there is a human being who lives somewhere and who has a name sitting down at a computer and hacking away at this game so they can play it.

Cost of living in Hanoi is so high because of strict building codes. They have these towers, you see, and they constantly have to move them a floor at a time across the city, and the larger floors have to sit below the smaller floors, with a severely constrained workforce. It's a logistics nightmare.

Post by vacri » Sat, Feb 08, 2014, 11:52 PM UTC

qrybam wrote: post #17

I feel for the guy. He made something a while ago, put on the market without much fanfare and then out of the blue his game suddenly shot to the top and raked in 50 million downloads. If you're not expecting it and you don't have the right people around you, all this publicity (a lot of which is quite negative, despite the game's popularity) can be pretty hard to take for some people. Remember Susan Boyle's breakdown…

Post by vacri » Sat, Feb 08, 2014, 11:54 PM UTC

oliwary wrote: post #102

joshvm wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was a Polygon article on HN recently about how the audience has no idea what it wants. It used Flappy Bird as the example, mentioning how it was an overnight success, but repeatedly slammed it: "Not only is the visual language of Flappy Bird almost entirely re-appropriated from early NES games, but it seems to be engineered and designed by someone still learning how to create games. There are frequent slowdowns…

Agreed. I think many people (myself included, probably) aren't equipped to deal with constant streams of criticism and abuse. It's a shame the internet had to react this way. The guy seems really humble and deserving of the success. But I think he chose happiness over the money, and I think that speaks of great integrity.

Post by stefan_kendall » Sat, Feb 08, 2014, 11:59 PM UTC

edandersen wrote: post #129

If he hates the game so much, why did he release version 1.2 on the 7th Feb (two days ago!) with a new title screen, new UI, "new birds" and new backgrounds?

Post by tomelders » Sun, Feb 09, 2014, 12:07 AM UTC

cfinke wrote: post #65

Jhsto wrote: post #55

As a side note, Dong has doubled his Twitter followers in one hour from 7000 to what now is nearly 16000. Whatever was his real intentions, he is receiving media attention which will most likely last even after he pulls out the game. You could speculate that he is trying to make a name for himself, so that the upcoming games would make him a stable income. As an indie developer he should know the fact that Flappy Bir…

You could speculate that he is trying to make a name for himself, so that the upcoming games would make him a stable income. Are you speculating that, or are you suggesting that others should speculate that?