Flappy Bird, the most popular game on iTunes at the moment, is being taken down from the App Store.
According to the game’s developer, Dong Nguyen, the game will be taken down at 12PM EST on Sunday, February 9th. The game, which is as simple a free runner (free flyer?) as can get, has been at the center of a heated controversy around the web due in part to the similarities of its art to Nintendo’s assets. There are green Mario pipes in Flappy Bird, and if the Internet is to be believed then the game is a massive, horrific creation.
A little excessive, probably, but enough to finally affect Nguyen, who mentioned that he “can’t take this anymore”.
Nguyen followed up with another tweet, stating that “It is not anything related to legal issues. [He] just cannot keep it anymore.”
This is reminiscent of Phil Fish’s breakdown last year, vowing to leave the games industry and cancel Fez 2 — we know that since then Fish has made his way back into the industry in various ways. Angry mobs can change things, apparently, and the Internet is the angriest.
Source: Twitter
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