After becoming one of the biggest app creators in the mobile gaming world in the span of about two weeks, Flappy Bird creator, Dong Nguyen, says that he’s done with his famous creation. Over the weekend, Nguyen pulled the game from the iTunes and Google Play stores.

Nguyen has made repeated pleas on his Twitter account asking for peace and has reached the conclusion that the best way to reach that piece is to pull his game from the two major mobile gaming marketplaces.

Last week, Nguyen tweeted the following:

Nguyen also went on the record as saying that the legal issues with the game. I couldn’t find anything formally documented relating to legal issues but one would assume that issues stem from art assets that seem similar to those of the NES Super Mario Bros. games and the Flappy Bird name which is similar enough to Angry Birds that it could draw Rovio’s attention. I wonder if the creator of that Copter game saw the similarities in mechanics because that was the first thing I thought of.

The game made waves for earning a reported $50,000 in advertising revenue from ads shown as a banner at the top of the game. While most free-to-play games employ microtransactions to earn money, Nguyen made his money through showing ads and didn’t incorporate microtransactions or other methods to interrupt gameplay to make money.

Nguyen also says that he isn’t done making games. It seems as though he’s done with Flappy Bird and wants to move on to different projects without his programming career being defined by this one game. At least he’s getting out before the pressure of having a popular game and dealing with all the BS that comes with being popular online completely breaks him mentally. I don’t want to liken this to Phil Fish but the BS got to him in a big way. What’s to say the same wouldn’t have happened to Nguyen.

Well, the meteoric rise and pseudo-fall of Flappy Bird has been an interesting story to follow. Considering all the complaints about microtransactions lately, I find it interesting that this game made tens of thousands, if not millions of dollars through unobtrusive ads rather than microtransactions. I wonder if other developers will learn a lesson from this game.

Source: Game Informer