The mobile application which used to attract millions of players early this year will make a comeback in August, Vietnamese game developer Nguyen Ha Dong revealed in an interview earlier this week.
The simple but infuriating Flappy Bird game, which required players to steer a small bird between green pipes, will come back to Apple's App Store and Android Play Store after being taken down three months ago, Dong said on Wednesday.
Though Dong did not say whether the game will be different from the previous version, the creator asserted it will be “less addictive” and feature a multiplayer mode that allows more than one person to play at the same time.
Besides bringing Flappy Bird back, Dong said in the interview with American news channel CNBC that he is developing “a lot of games,” including one in which players control a character and move him from building to building.
Despite the simple instruction and design, which were inspired by Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros, Flappy Bird was considered a tricky and excruciatingly difficult game that infuriated millions of players around the world, forcing them to continuously play to beat their previous score.
At its peak time, Flappy Bird received more than 50 million downloads and upwards of 500,000 reviews while Dong pocketed more than VND1 billion (US$50,000) daily thanks to in-game ads.
However, the game also ruined the Hanoi-based man’s normal life, causing him severe stress as he unexpectedly received attention from millions of players as well as local and foreign media.
In February, Dong suddenly took down the game from both Apple’s App Store and Android Play Store, saying Flappy Bird players were becoming too addicted and apologized to them.
“I cannot take this anymore,” he tweeted on Twitter, seeing more than 136,000 retweets later.
After being pulled from the application stores, the game still proved its power as hundreds of Flappy Bird alternatives were continuously released, hoping to replace the original version’s throne.
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Đăng ký: VietNam News