Flappy Bird

Flappy Bird is an app developer of the Vietnamese Dong Nguyen from the year 2013. Was Published by Gears Studios. The app was originally developed in May 2013 for the Apple iPhone 5, iOS 6, and then later in September 2013 for iOS 7.

On February 8, 2014, Nguyen announced on Twitter that he will remove the application from the App Store. He called the base later in an interview. He stated that the game is addictive, what his real intention to make Flappy Bird in a casual game would conflict. On February 9, 2014, the app has been removed without comment from both the Google Play Store and from the Apple App Store.

Gameplay

The graphic design of Flappy Bird resembles the graphics of Super Mario World, and is kept relatively simple. The player leads by tapping the screen a bird through a right to left scrolling game world, where the bird pairs from top and bottom of the frame towering green tubes must not touch, but must fly through between them. The position of the flight path varies. Each time the bird flies through between a pair of tubes, he collects a point. This process is automatically canceled when the bird touches one of the tubes. It is then routed to an intermediate menu, where the player can either divide the score achieved on social networks or can be returned to the main menu.

Reception

Reviews

The app has been criticized by Huffington Post as " unbearable confusing, difficult and frustrating game with boring graphics and poor control ".

A positive rating awarded Jenifer Whiteside of Amongtech.com that trusts the app because of the addiction potential and the hype surrounding the app the game of Candy Crush Saga as the most famous mobile phone video game of 2014 to beat.

The difficulty level of the game occurs when many users on as a point of criticism. The developer adds that easier to play on Android, the app is as the iOS version.

Commercial success

In January 2014, the app has led the iTunes store charts of free apps in the U.S. and in China, and later in the same month the UK iTunes Store. The end of January was the most downloaded app as app.

The game brought the programmer according to own data through on-screen advertising, so-called " in-app advertising," up to $ 50,000 per day.

After setting some Flappy Bird similar apps have been published, including the App Splashy Fish, which was some time No. 1 on the free apps charts in the Apple App Store.

Setting and controversy

" I'm sorry, Flappy Bird users, in 22 hours I will adjust Flappy Bird. I can not stand all that. "

He added that the setting of the app would have " nothing to do with litigation " to do. On February 9, 2014, the application then as announced without comment from the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store has been removed.

Chance of one depends on the developer, he had similar programs or used to make the app in early 2014 so popular. As the Daily Telegraph put that fact to question, Nguyen replied:

"I respect all of these opinions. I will not comment further in this regard. I like to make my games in peace. "

As Newsweek spoke to the issue, Nguyen tweeted that this is " no role", adding that Apple had the game long since removed from the store, he had forged the usage statistics.

The video game was also commented by Kotaku due to the use of " Mario artifacts " as " abgeschaute art."

Flappy Bird has been set by the developer Dong Nguyen on February 9, 2014. However, this does not affect the use. As far as the app is installed on the device, it can still be used.

On eBay, mobile phones were offered with the pre-installed app for four-digit amounts in euros; However, this may have been speculating on confusion between bidding and Buy it.

After the disappearance of the game from the app stores from Google and Apple its developer commented on the reasons: He originally wanted to develop a game that makes for relaxing pastime, however, was forced to remove it since it directly impacts ausginge a risk of addiction. Also called Nguyen associated with the success of attention to his person as the reason.

The app can also be downloaded as an APK file from different sources.