Game creator to his own game down

• Posted by T Ghosh February 9, 2014 - Filed in Business - #  #Android  #"Games  - 1,184 views

  
  
  The Vietnam based indie developer Dong Nguyen, the brain child behind the game informed that he is going to take the game down, via a post on Twitter.  Flappy Bird, the popular mobile game, is being pulled from app marketplaces by its developer. 
  
  The casual indie game had gone viral after the release of its Android iteration. 
  "I am sorry 'Flappy Bird' users, 22 hours from now, I will take 'Flappy Bird' down. I cannot take this anymore," the tweet said. 
  
  He also clarified that the decision was not because of any legal problems. "It is not anything related to legal issues. I just cannot keep it anymore," he said, perhaps pointing to all the attention the game and the developer garnered after Flappy Bird went viral. Nguyen earlier tweeted, "I can call 'Flappy Bird' is a success of mine. But it also ruins my simple life. So now I hate it." 
  Nguyen informed online publication, The Verge, that he's earning on average $50,000 a day through ads. 
  
  The ad-supported game has been in the news for topping download charts, worldwide, reportedly recording 50 million downloads and 47,000 reviews in the iOS App Store. 
  Flappy Bird's gameplay is similar to that of games like Jetpack Joyride with the players requiring to just tap the screen to make the tiny bird fly and manoeuvre through pipes without hitting itself. The more pipes you make the bird cross, the more you score. Simple as it may sound, the game is extremely difficult to play and takes hours to manage even