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It wasn’t until I saw all of the tweets going back
and forth on our class blog about Flappy Bird that I decided to find out what
all of the hype was about. It was after it was pulled from the market by the
creator, Dong Nguyen, so it was a different version, but I was hooked. I just
kept thinking that I could do better and “I almost made that one!” I am not as
obsessive about this game as some others, which is why the creator decided to
do what he did.
Not very long after this app was erased from the
store, Nguyen has gone on record saying that there will be another Flappy Bird,
even “better than the original”. You have to wonder why, with not much time having
passed, has he decided to do this. Could it be that all of the fuss was
purposely made to get more publicity for him? That this was his plan all along,
to get people to want the app even more because it was gone? It just doesn’t
make sense to me why someone would create a second version of something that
seemingly caused him so much stress.
I’m sure that
many of us would like to see another “original” Flappy Bird, but only time will
tell if people will respond to the up and coming app like they did the first
one, and, if they do, then what? Will the creator pull this one like he did the
first? However, the creator is quoted in the article as saying that, when and/
or if the game is released again, he will likely put a "warning" to, "please take a break." I
don’t foresee people actually paying attention to this, however. The
author states that Nguyen nearly disappeared on Twitter after the app was
pulled, for what reason it doesn’t say, but it does make you wonder.
Article posted on mashable.com on March 20th, 2014
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