The Game Flappy Bird indeed achieved great success and managed to be the talk in the media and social media. Amid the success, the makers of Flappy Bird, Dong Nguyen, decided to pull the game from the Apple App Store app store and Google Play Store.
From the radar KompasTekno on Monday morning (10/2/2014), 08.00 EST, Flappy Bird was gone from the store device iOS and Android applications.
Means, Flappy Bird already can no longer be downloaded by new users. While users who have installed this game on the device, can still be played as usual.
Nguyen has announced it will indeed deprive the game simple, addictive, and fishing that emotion. He confirmed that the decision was nothing to do with the legal issues, he also said it would not sell the Flappy Bird.
This is merely done Nguyen because the popularity of Flappy Bird had damaged "the simple life."
Potential entangled legal
In the midst of a successful Flappy Bird, this game could potentially get tangled in legal matters. Forbes noted Flappy Bird has some visual similarities with the game Super Mario Bros from Nintendo.
The similarity is such a green pipe forms very similar to similar objects in Mario games, as well as character design similar birds flying fish named "cheep-cheep" appears in the third series of games made by Nintendo. Backgrounds and graphics style ala 8-bit gaming console jadul seeming complete similarities that exist.
In fact, the sound comes when the bird goes through a crack pipe is also similar to the Mario character voice when get coins.
In addition, the Flappy Bird often associated Piou Piou mimic game titled was released in 2011 because it has a similar concept of how to play the character, the birds, as well as green blocks that became obstacles.
Nguyen argued, the potential legal problems is not the cause of the retraction of the Flappy Bird from circulation. When asked about alleged copyright infringement via Twitter, Nguyen gave answers that invites curiosity. "Ah, I can't steal anything directly. Do it is an art unto itself, "he said.
Until a few hours before the withdrawal, Flappy Bird still entrenched at the top position for the most popular free app stair device iOS and Android. This Game has been downloaded over 50 million times and generated money USD 600 million per day for Nguyen.
Flappy Bird developed by Nguyen (29 years old), who came from Hanoi, Viet Nam. The Game was released in may 2013. The number of unduhannya started up in November 2013, then suddenly popular at the beginning of 2014.
Nguyen released the Flappy Bird under the name.Gears Studios. However, this is not the name of a company. Nguyen worked single-handedly developed the Flappy Bird and other games such as Super Ball Juggling, and Shuriken Block.
In the future, Dong was planning to give feature updates and close the flaws in his game. He will also release the latest HTML5 game with a Smashing title Kitty Cat character, offering as well as different ways to play.