![]() ![]() ![]() Using Google Trends we entered search terms for the year’s biggest stories and controversies, people and companies who made news, popular TV shows and movies, and more. Even though using Estately is a simple, efficient way to find a home many Americans chose to spend their time online doing other things. In the meantime, whether he likes it or not, the spotlight is likely to remain on Flappy Bird’s creator Nguyen Ha Dong, even though his game is no longer available to download.In 2014, not everyone in America searched online for a home for sale. The result is most Vietnamese gamers play foreign games, particularly from China, which are adapted for the local market.ĭo Quy Doan, who recently retired as deputy minister of communication, said the games industry in Vietnam is still new and there are still obstacles as well as mechanisms to encourage it.ĭoan said the success of Flappy Bird is very encouraging for the future of the games industry. In Vietnam, games are very expensive to develop and are hindered by complicated licensing procedures. If you’re going for the global market then you have to be way better,” he said. “Not that many of them are world class and not that many of them are going after the global market. But Dong is one of thousands of upcoming independent developers, who mostly focus on creating mobile games.ĭespite that competition, Tech In Asia’s Minh said the quality of the games they produce tends to be low. The local market is dominated by VNG, which holds 60 percent of the Vietnamese gaming market. Vietnam is the largest online games market by value in South-East Asia, with revenue of over $250 million in 2013. So now I hate it,” he wrote.īut although it’s "Game Over" for Flappy Bird, experts are hopeful Dong’s legacy in Vietnam could be longer lasting. “I can call Flappy Bird is a success of mine. In a series of messages he published on Twitter in recent days, Dong revealed he was taking the game down because the attention was overwhelming. 10, 2014.īut being shot to fame was apparently too much for the game’s 29-year-old creator, Hanoi native Nguyen Ha Dong. Maybe it’s one of those flukes… I think it’s very hard to replicate those moments,” said Minh.Īn employee plays the game Flappy Bird at a smartphone store in Hanoi, Feb. You know maybe Flappy Bird’s fame is not copyable. “I talk about how everyone copies Angry Birds principles, and I think people will try to copy the principles of Flappy Bird. The success of the game was completely unexpected, and inexplicable, much like Korean popstar Psy’s smash hit "Gangam Style," the editor of Tech-in-Asia, Anh Minh Do said. ![]() But indie developer Nguyen Ha Dong said it only took him a few days to create Flappy Bird. Smartphone games are big business, with many companies hiring teams of programmers to make the next hit. The game uses simple graphics, that reminded many of Nintendo’s “Super Mario Brothers,” a classic video game from the 1980s, players guide a flapping bird between broken pipes by tapping the screen. Last week it became a top seller on both Apple iPhones and smartphones using the Google Android operating system. Surprisingly difficult and infuriatingly addictive, Flappy Bird has become a global sensation. But just as its popularity soared, its creator abruptly removed the game from the marketplace. Until Sunday, the world’s most popular smartphone game was “Flappy Bird,” a simple but frustratingly difficult video game that was created by a developer in Vietnam.
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