No mention of the massive publicity boost from the Youtube let's play video of Flappy Bird by that strange Norwegian guy with millions of subscribers?
Flappy Bird Creator Dong Nguyen Speaks Out
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#42I heard it was just a reskin of a premade game he got off an asset store. Is that not the case? This article made it sound like it was an original idea, but I thought it was just that one button to go up, no button to go down flash game. Is that not what it is?
There are very few original ideas out there.
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#43Just to clarify, Dong Nguyen is still alive... right? The article is a little fuzzy - "In the wake of Flappy Bird's demise, rumors spread. Nguyen had committed suicide."
That part had strange wording. I'm assuming that that was one of the rumors. It could have been worded better, perhaps with a colon and then a list of rumors.
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#44Unfortunately, by removing Flappy Bird from the App Store, he opened the door for shitty clones to reach the top of the charts. This arguably made the lives of users worse. He also passed up the opportunity to make millions of more dollars in merchandising.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
He could also have scheduled a recurrent funds transfer to the charity of his choice. That would have been a lot of karma for the future.
> "But the hardest thing of all, he says, was something else entirely. He hands me his iPhone so that I can scroll through some messages he's saved. One is from a woman chastising him for "distracting the children of the world." Another laments that "13 kids at my school broke their phones because of your game, and they still play it cause it's addicting like crack." Nguyen tells me of e-mails from workers who had lo…
Nevertheless, this was no solution. It is not that those with low willpower will not find other distractions.
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#46three he's working on simultaneously: an untitled cowboy-themed shooter, a vertical flying game called Kitty Jetpack and an "action chess game," as he puts it, called Checkonaut, one of which he'll release this month Don't say the names of his to-be-released games; someone might grab the app names now. (Unless they're already approved but hidden; though Apple usually doesn't allow "in-progress"/beta app submissions)
Sounds a little like Jetpack Kitty.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jetpack-kitty/id567551748?mt...
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#47Unfortunately, by removing Flappy Bird from the App Store, he opened the door for shitty clones to reach the top of the charts. This arguably made the lives of users worse. He also passed up the opportunity to make millions of more dollars in merchandising.
Shitty clones would've been made irregardless of him removing the app from the store.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you miss that this was an interview?
I only know he is still alive because I've followed the Flappy Bird story. I just shared this story with 3 people who only know OF him, all 3 of them replied with their condolences and then we found consolation in his humor about CounterStrike. As a reporter I would think there should be some importance in leaving zero room for misintepretation regarding somebody's well-being. Is that wrong?
There is always room for misinterpretation. You will never be able to defend yourself 100% against people with poor reading comprehension.
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#49No mention of the massive publicity boost from the Youtube let's play video of Flappy Bird by that strange Norwegian guy with millions of subscribers?
Which was a really big help, but by the time it was on that Youtube channel it was already #1 on the App Store. It really was word of mouth that got it there. There are whole articles analyzing the Flappy Bird rise. I didn't bookmark any though, but they all seemed to conclude it was the perfect storm of viral awareness, it just spread by word of mouth perfectly.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
I only know he is still alive because I've followed the Flappy Bird story. I just shared this story with 3 people who only know OF him, all 3 of them replied with their condolences and then we found consolation in his humor about CounterStrike. As a reporter I would think there should be some importance in leaving zero room for misintepretation regarding somebody's well-being. Is that wrong?
If you include the next few sentences it's clear that there was no suicide: In the wake of Flappy Bird's demise, rumors spread. Nguyen had committed suicide. Nintendo was suing him. He'd received death threats. His refusal to speak fueled the speculation even more. It's a list of the rumors that were going around, and is terminated by a statement about his refusal to speak (at the time) which strongly implies that th…
I see the flow you're talking about but IMO that second sentence is just too big and too bold. The paragraph seems to drop that bomb, inch away and then come back to discredit it rather than just spitting it out like, "rumors begun to spread that Dong had..."
Anyway, no sense in nit-picking but I would like to see a couple words rearranged. I really think he's a good guy and he seems to be someone worthy of the industry's admiration.
We need many, many more people like him in this world. (from what I know about him)